Kat Matis

Kat Matis is a Russian-born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is the creator of **Mayhem**, an original painting style that merges realism and abstraction into a single visual language where chaos becomes structure and emotion becomes form. She is also the founder of **Nylonism**—an original artistic movement that transforms discarded plastic into a medium for contemporary art, fashion, performance, and installation.

Kat's artistic journey is inseparable from her life story.

At nineteen, she moved to the Czech Republic to build an entirely new life. There she became a mother and spent the next nineteen years raising her daughter largely on her own, dedicating herself to providing every opportunity she could despite difficult circumstances.

During those years, she also survived cancer. Following treatment, her oncologist recommended daily swimming in salt water as part of her rehabilitation. Today she lives beside the Mediterranean Sea in Israel, where the sea remains both a place of healing and an essential part of her creative process. She often says that she is still in rehabilitation—not from illness, but from everything life has taught her.

When her daughter turned seventeen, Kat made the ...

Kat has painted since childhood. Since the age of eleven, she has documented her dreams, visions, and subconscious imagery, many of which later became the foundation of her paintings. Her work combines sacred geometry, symbolic systems, mythology, psychology, and intuitive composition into layered visual narratives.
She is the creator of **Mayhem**, a distinctive artistic language that dissolves the boundary between realism and abstraction. Within every composition, recognizable forms emerge from apparent chaos, inviting viewers to discover hidden structures, archetypes, and symbolic relationships. Each painting becomes an exploration of order born from disorder.

Her artistic philosophy holds that art can become a catalyst for profound inner transformation. Rather than illustrating reality, she creates symbolic environments intended to encourage psychological, emotional, and spiritual reflection. Every canvas is conceived as an energetic composition where geometry, symbolism, colour, and intuition interact.

Alongside painting, Kat is also a performance artist. She dissolves the boundary between creator and creation, describing herself as **the shadow of her own artworks**. Her body becomes another artistic medium, extending her p...

3 - 12.8.2023 - Personal Exhibition in the center of Tel Aviv, Levontin St 21, Tel Aviv-Yafo
2 - 5.2.2024 - Participant of the "Israeli Art 23" exhibition at Bank Hapoalim's management building at 63 Yehuda Halevi St. Tel Aviv
15 - 17.2.2025 - Part of the "Israeli Art" Exhibition - sponsored by Bank Hapoalim - Forms-Wizard
1.10.2024 - 1.4.2025 - Part of Gallery "420Gallery"
23.2. - 27.2.2026 Part of the "Israeli Art" Exhibition - sponsored by Bank Hapoalim
1.3.2026 - 30.6.2026 - Part of Exhibitoon in Hormesis Neve Tzedek
8.8.2026 Part of Exhibition SEEMS, Mazeh 9 , Tel Aviv