Olga Kataeva-Rochford

Hi, my name is Olga Kataeva-Rochford.
I am painter and graphic artist. Born in Saint-Petersburg, I live and work in Paris. Passioned by the sea and ships, I teach drawing from life to future naval architects.
The history of my French family is closely linked to the sea, so the main theme of my artistic work is exploration and journeys, both in spatial, temporal and cultural terms. The seaman, by their example, teach me inner freedom, mutual assistance, love of life, responsibility and discipline. The sea for me is associated with the human dream of conquering immense space. A ship is like a floating construction, a floating temple, a particle of human creative presence, in contrast to the immensity of the elements. The sea is as immense and deep as our lives.
For every theme I search for the means of expression and technique most suited to it. So my work is always very different, just as life itself. Life is our main gift, fragile and fleeting. All of the manifestations of our life are precious and worthy of being captured. This is what I talk about in my art.
I am attracted by complex and multi-layered textures and meanings. Images that reveal themselves to the viewer gradually, as they sink their gaze into the work. I often ...

2019 Qualified as a Senior Lecturer in Arts
2018 Ph.D. degree in Arts and Cinema, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

2004-2010 Master degree "Monumental painting", the Faculty of Fine Arts of the State Herzen Pedagogical University (St. Petersburg).
Diploma with honours and congratulations from the jury

Personal exhibitions

2022 When the Nordet wind blows, March, 2 to May, 2, Yacht Club of France, Paris, France

2021-2022 Vineyard and Fresh Wind, December, 3 to January, 12, O Large gallery, Paris, France

2020 Invited artist, festival Les Décades de la peinture, Brioude, France
https://lesdecades.wixsite.com/festival/artistes
Saint-Petersburg – Paris : Memory of Walls, Memory of streets (with Alena Vasilyeva), February 8 to February 9, as part of 11th Russian Book and Russian Literature European Days, town hall of the 5th arrondissement in Paris, France

2016 Between the sky and the sea, April, 19 to April, 30, I-Gallery Instant, Paris

2014 Dialogue (with Olga Alexandrova), November 25 to December 6, I-Gallery Instant, Paris

2013 Dreams of Jade, November 19 to November 26, I-Gallery Instant, Paris

2012 Personal exhibition in the context of European Heritage Days 2012. France, Paris, CIUP: a Russian perspective, in Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris. September 15 to September 16


Collective exhibitions

2022
Russian delegation, Drawing and Water Painting Salon, Art in the Capital, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2021
Mechanisms, exhibition of kinetic artworks and concert of mechanistic music, Prit...