Moscow born, educated worldwide, now based in Berlin and Puglia, stylist,  designer, Fashion illustrator and performer.  
 "I spent many years working in the fashion industry and drawing people in clothes. Now I am convinced that happy people do not need any clothes. Perhaps ..... only shoes....with high heels.
 My Inspiration came at the start of  lockdown. I was locked up in my garden in Puglia and did not suffer at all. Finally, I could enjoy my chance to think, to really think  about so many things. For instance,  what does it mean, “to be locked up or locked down”. What does the term “lockdown” really mean in a country, to be “locked down” in a place, in one’s body or in ones mind.
 The more external restrictions there were, the stronger was the desire for personal freedom. The closer death comes, the more valuable life seems, life and its pleasures."
 Recently Katia is focusing more in her Art. Freedom and feminism are the main subjects, which perceive as necessary as air. 
 "My subjects are Nudes and Nymphs that appear through the tension of lines, passion of colours and simplicity of content." Katia’s art reveals unresolved oscillation between the poles of the visible and the invisible, modesty and immodesty. Here the real subject of Katia’s drawings is sensuality.  This disclosure becomes a legitimate form of comprehending human nature and converting this nature into beauty. 

In a period of a pandemic, doubts in the world outside, Katia uses the image of girl, a nymph or a fairy placing them in opposition to the reality. In addition they were traditionally associated with sensuality, allegorising the naturalness of desire and the sexual sensitivity and freedom of the mind, as well as an erotic feeling. 

Katia’s drawings can be also associated with the fashion designer’s sketch, with the absence of clothes. It appears that the path that Katia took from fashion designer to artist, was the path to free and essential spheres. Here the attributes of social status or fashion are no longer valuable, here only true beauty is essential and much more important than imposed standards. 

It's the same story with ceramics - Katia perceives ceramics as a blank canvas, her drawings are minimalistic, made using only one color and often one line. but the variety in the colours of the series, the colours that Katia uses are always bright, bursting with color, there are no half way compromised tones - these are rejected as half-truths and hints and so are rejected. Katia's drawings and ceramics are honest and straightforward. They are about happiness and harmony, those feelings that are so difficult to find, but when one finds them, one must try intrinsically to keep them for oneself.  

Her series with the shoes stands out here. They are flesh from the flesh of her interest in fashion. As a fashion designer Katia has embellished beauty with love, the ability to view what is hidden inside.  These are not just designer’s sketches, these are portraits, portraits of shoes. Each one of them has a mood and tells its own story. Unlike drawings depicting girls, which are more generic, the shoes are distinctive, each pair is different, seen from a different perspective and with different accents. When you think about it, life can really be judged by our shoes. Katia often portrays heels, but differing from the fashion framework, for her heels are akin to a springboard, to a leap in height, to where it is easier to look at the real you and love yourself, not the image in Instagram.