Katrine P Funderud

Katrine P. Funderud was born in 1968 on the shores of the Oslo Fjord, where the silence of Nordic winters and the raw beauty of nature left an indelible mark on her imagination. Today, she makes her home in Provence, surrounded by the luminous landscapes that once drew 19th-century painters to the Mediterranean. It was there, at the University of Provence, that she earned her master’s degree in Art History, delving into the work of those artists who sought to translate the South’s radiance into paint.



From an early age, the Norwegian countryside instilled in her a reverence for nature—its strength, its fragility, its ever-changing moods. This connection became the wellspring of her artistic language, nourished further by the discipline of formal techniques she absorbed during her studies. Over time, these tools evolved into a personal vocabulary of abstraction.



In her large oil canvases, Katrine does not simply depict a place; she evokes a sensation, an atmosphere suspended between memory and presence. Her work inhabits the tension between opposites: the austere drama of the North and the vibrant warmth of the South, shadow and light, silence and exuberance.



To paint, for her, is to reveal what she is herself—a meeting gro...

Katrine first approached art through knowledge and history, earning a Master’s degree in Art History at the University of Aix-en-Provence before pursuing a PhD. For several years she delved into archives and research, tracing the footsteps of past masters. Yet, in the silence of study, she began to feel an absence—the urge not only to understand art, but to live it.



A few years into her doctoral work, she chose to step away from the path of academia and turn entirely toward painting. It was less a renunciation than a return: a way of aligning her life with the call that had always been there, waiting.



At the Atelier Buttner and later at the Beaux-Arts, she embraced abstraction as her true language. Oil paint became her terrain—dense, luminous, unpredictable—mirroring the inner landscapes she sought to bring forth. In this space, theory gave way to intuition, knowledge to experience, and the act of painting became not just a practice, but a way of being.

2025 Tous enfants de Cezanne, Bastide de Cezanne, Aix en Provence
2024/2025 Espace KM, Aix en Provence
2022 Gantèse Art Festival
2021 Solo exhibition Tour Campanets Estate
2019 Solo exhibition, Jeantet et Associés, Paris
2019 Solo exhibition, Moulin Cézanne, Aix en Provence
2018 Saatchi Gallery, London, Cash is King
2018 Art3F, Luxembourg
2017 Swiss Art Space, Lausanne
2017 The Artbox Project, Basel
2016 Galerie Esdac, Aix en Provence.
2016 SM'ART Contemporary Art Fair.
2015 Galerie Ruban Vert, Aix en Provence
2014 Drôle d'Endroit, Aix en Provence.
2014 Galerie Ruban Vert, Aix en Provence
2013 Anikado, Concept Store, St Remy de Provence
2013 Galerie Ruban Vert, Aix en Provence
2012 Galerie Ruban Vert, Aix en Provence
2011 L'Hôtel Pullman Palm Beach, Marseille.