Vienna, Austria
kAtheFee
BIOGRAPHY The founder of the brand „kAtheFee“ is a Viennese artist with Russian roots. She was born in Russia in 1983 and currently works as a...
BIOGRAPHY The founder of the brand „kAtheFee“ is a Viennese artist with Russian roots. She was born in Russia in 1983 and currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. After her university degree in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication in Russia, she moved to Germany, travelled a lot and lived in Spain and Cuba. She then earned an MBA in Financial Management in Austria and finally returned to her long-time passion - sketching and photography. Her creativity and self-discovery led her to small successful art studio of Mrs Dinara Hörtnagl (TOP 100 Young Russian Artists according to InArt version) where she took painting lessons. At the same time kAtheFee took part in intensive oil painting and anatomy sketching workshops conducted by a member of the Union of Russian Artists, an associate professor of the Department of Drawing and Painting of Saint Petersburg State University Mr Sabit Nurimov. She made her successful contemporary art project „Zodiacal Square“ with a rising star of the world art stage from China Mr Lo Si.
The artworks of kAtheFee participated in international art fairs and were successfully exhibited in renowned galleries in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Some artworks were nominated for Luxembourg Art Prize 2020. The artworks of kAtheFee are in private collections in Russia, Germany, Greece, Poland and Austria and could be purchased on the recognised art platform ARTSY.
ARTIST STATEMENT The story of the brand began in 2002 in a medieval German castle in the middle of the Thuringian Forest. The brand combines the art of painting, sketching and photography, the philosophical sarcasm of the blog „3-S: Sport. Sarcasm. Sojourn by kAtheFee“ as well as numerous reports from the fun „Ananas TV“ about travelling and art. The guiding theme of all of kAtheFee's artworks is the philosophical search for a balance between the fast-paced and ever-changing stream of modern life and a state of calm and inner contemplation. and the inner contemplation of the world. In the style of (sur)realism, she tries to convey her life experience, adventures and urban impressions through the colourful prism of personal opinion. The motto of the entire brand is „Smile. Create. Live“ („Smile. Create. Live“)