An artist between matter, memory, and movement.

Born in Moscow, Katia Terpigoreva began her career in journalism, working for nearly twenty years in the worlds of design, architecture, and contemporary art. But at 35, she chose a completely different path: visual art. After a stint in Italy, she settled in Aveyron, where she has lived and worked since 2010.
A self-taught artist, Katia develops a free, organic practice that escapes academic frameworks. Her approach is part of a sensory exploration of materials—porcelain, stoneware, wool, fabric, cement, and even burnt wood—which she assembles, transforms, and repurposes. She favors slow, repetitive gestures, reminiscent of craftsmanship, and allows natural processes (drying, firing, fiber tension, etc.) to contribute to the final form of the work. Her creations evoke both plant and mineral elements, somewhere between imaginary archaeological artifacts and ritual objects. They evoke an aesthetic that is both primitive and contemporary, influenced by minimalism, Italian anti-design, brutalist architecture, and the silent forms of nature. Her work exhibits a constant tension between fragility and resistance, between emptiness and matter.
In addition to her artistic practice, Katia Terpigoreva collaborates with Atelier Blanc (Villefranche-de-Rouergue), where she has presented several installations, including the remarkable Sans souci, composed of hundreds of porcelain flowers suspended in the art center's gardens.
"I am a girl without roots," she confides. Cosmopolitan and free, she creates a poetic and committed body of work, driven by a simple but essential desire: to make the world more beautiful.