Catia Goffinet

Catia Goffinet (b. 1973, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist whose practice moves between geometric abstraction and figurative painting, exploring tensions between order and instability.

In her geometric series, she investigates light and shadow as structural elements that shape perception, creating minimal compositions that evoke balance, silence, and spatial expansion.

In parallel, her paintings on aluminum introduce the human body as a point of rupture. Figures in states of falling or suspension traverse rigid surfaces, creating a friction between the permanence of the material and the instability of human experience. The aluminum, often associated with precision and durability, becomes a field where the body reveals moments of transition, displacement, and loss of control.

Her work operates through contrasts such as lightness and weight, control and surrender, permanence and transformation, focusing on the threshold where something ceases to hold and another possibility begins to emerge.

Cozinha da Pintura, Contemporary Painting, 2025 – present
• Mentorship with Julie Belfer Sarian, Arte Contemporânea Vírgula, 2024 – present
• Oil Painting Techniques with Mauricio Suzuki, Arte Contemporânea Vírgula, 2025 – present
• Production Triggers with Julie Belfer Sarian, Arte Contemporânea Vírgula
• Professional Artist Practice with Julie Belfer Sarian, Arte Contemporânea Vírgula
• Inside Contemporary Art with Marcelo Rocha, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 6x6 Program, Galeria Tato, São Paulo, Brazil
• Casa Tato 11, 2024, São Paulo, Brazil
• Production Triggers with Julie Belfer, Arte Contemporânea Vírgula
• Portfolio and Artist Talks with Bruno Miguel, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Painting Techniques, Drawing and Creativity, Ceres Art Gallery, 2018–2019, São Paulo, Brazil
• Acrylic Painting Development with Ro Gonçalves, MUBE, São Paulo, Brazil
• Professional Photography Course, Full Frame, 2017–2018, São Paulo, Brazil
• Painting: Artist and Contemporary Vision, 2012–2016, MUBE, São Paulo, Brazil
• Panamericana School of Art, 2011–2014, São Paulo, Brazil
• Cozinha da Pintura, 2012–2014, São Paulo, Brazil
• Life Drawing, 2008, SENAC, São Paulo, Brazil
• Oil Painting, 1997–2003, Artist Studio with Marcelo Hartz...

2026, Group Exhibition “Despite”, Casa Um Studio, São Paulo, Brazil
2025, 31st Praia Grande Fine Arts Salon, Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brazil
2025, Funarte, Contempla Poetas, São Paulo, Brazil
2025, Galeria Tato, Exhibition Cycle, curated by Claudinei Roberto da Silva and Lucas de Lacerda, São Paulo, Brazil
2024, Correios Museum, Brasília, Brazil
2024, Galeria Tato, curated by Claudinei Roberto da Silva, São Paulo, Brazil
2024, Funarte, Sulear: Global South, São Paulo, Brazil
2019, Ceres Art Gallery, exhibition “Colors”, São Paulo, Brazil
2016, Espaço Uruguai, “Forms and Colors”, São Paulo, Brazil
2016, Respirarte – Conjunto Nacional, São Paulo, Brazil