ABOUT US
“I, Kateryna, work with the themes of corporeality and the cultural code of a nation encoded in ornaments. I work with corporeality through live models, their emotions and vulnerability. I am interested in how we perceive our bodies and how art changes this perception. Through colors and patches, I convey feelings arising from the interaction with the model.”
“I, Tetiana, in my works explore the transformations of material — its texture and variability, allowing it to flow and fall. I work in the landscape genre, interested in new spaces and conveying emotions arising from the interaction between people and place. Each place has its own memory and character, and people have their own emotions and experiences. In my works, I depict the mutual exchange between people and space.”
Biography
Kyiv, Ukraine \ Gdańsk, Poland
Kateryna and Tetiana Ocheredko were born in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since March 6, 2022, they have been residing in Gdańsk, Poland.
In 2010, they graduated from the Publishing and Printing Institute of the National Technical University of Ukraine «Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute», specializing in Graphic Arts. Since 2012, they have been members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (Kyiv).
In 2012, Kateryna and Tetiana were included among 150 young Ukrainian artists worldwide as part of the Art in Social Contest (SNAC) at the Art People Gallery in San Francisco, California, USA.
From 2012 to 2013, they both received scholarships from the Kyiv Mayor for gifted youth in recognition of their personal creative contributions to the city’s development and their achievements in social life.
Since 2007, they have participated in over 20 national and more than 30 international painting and graphic projects, competitions, and exhibitions across Europe, China, the USA, Australia, and Cyprus.
Since 2011, Kateryna and Tetiana have presented 9 solo exhibitions.
From 2012 to 2018, they worked together on mosaic compositions for the interior of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Kyiv.
Between 2018 and 2020, they contributed mosaics to St. John’s Monastery in the village of Mala Soltanivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine.
In 2016, both artists served as animator-artists for the creation of the first feature-length animated film painted with oil about the life and death of Vincent van Gogh, Loving Vincent, produced by BREAKTHRU FILMS studio in Gdańsk, Poland. The film was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe Award in 2018.
Between 2021 and 2023, Kateryna, as a supervisor of artistic animation, and Tetiana, as a painter-animator, collaborated on the feature-length hand-painted oil animation film The Peasants, based on the novel by Nobel Prize laureate in literature Władysław Reymont, at BREAKTHRU FILMS studio in Sopot, Poland.
Between 2020 and 2021, they created a series of graphic works for the Cyprus Museum of Modern Art.
Their artistic practice encompasses easel and monumental painting as well as easel graphics. Their works are held in private collections in Poland, England, Germany, China, Cyprus, the USA, and Kyrgyzstan, as well as in museum collections in Cyprus, Ukraine, China, and Egypt.
Our works are in in museum collection:
1. in the collection of the Cyprus Museum of Modern Art (Nicosia, Cyprus)
2. in the collection of the Walled City Museum (Nicosia, Cyprus)
3. in the collection of the China Printmaking Museum (Guanlan, China)
4. in the Collections Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)
5. in the Museum of prominent figures of Ukrainian culture (Ukraine, Kyiv)
Diplomas and awards:
1. 2020 Received an award «Silver Key Honor Award» from Cyprus Museum of Modern Art, Cyprus Museum of Modern Art, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2. 2018 Honorary Award for participation in the Engraving Exhibition & Sculpture «Engravers of the world», organized by the Greek Association of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders with the cooperation of the Archaeologicalmuseum of Thessaloniki,Greece.
3. In 2012, for work on the mosaic decoration of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Kiev, she received the award from the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Vladimir.
4. 2017 Diploma of the 1st level “Master of the author’s art print” at the All-Ukrainian exhibition of graphics in Kharkov (Kharkov, Ukraine)
5. 2013 The Competition Exhibition “Green Wave” – a participant of the category “Painting” (Art Gallery “MITETS”, Kyiv, Ukraine).
6. 2011 The Competition Exhibition “Green Wave” – a participant of the category “Painting” (Art Gallery “MITETS”, Kyiv, Ukraine)
Auctions:
2025 PRAGALERIA auction in Poland
2023 DESA Unicum auction house in Poland
2017-2019 Sopocki Dom Aukcyjny Sp. z o.o. Poland
Plein airs:
2025 PLENER URBAN SKETCHEROWY Miasto w szkicach – 700-lecie Nowego Miasta Lubawskiego (Poland)
2025 Plener Urban Sketchers w Pruszczu Gdańskim (Pruszcz Gdański, Poland)
2025 Plener Urban Sketchers na Biskupią Górkę (Gdansk, Poland)
2025 XXVI Repin International Plein Air (Chuguyiv, Ukraine)
2023 XХ International Plein-Air in Nova Zagora (Nova Zagora, Bulgaria)
2019 XX Repin International Plein Air (Chuguyiv, Ukraine)
2018 XV International Plein-Air in Nova Zagora (Nova Zagora, Bulgaria)
2015 XVI Repin International Plein-Air(Chuguyiv, Ukraine)
Art fair :
2024 – Art Shoping Paris 2024, Carousel du Louvre, Paris, France Charity group exhibition in support of Ukraine
Festivals:
2023 – Animayo International Film Festival, Gran Canaria, Spain
2023 – Printmaking Fair «Graphik –Borse, Borken 2023», Germany
Symposium:
2020-2021 International art symposium Cyprus Museum of Modern Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN UKRAINE:
Multi-volume Scientific and Encyclopedic Edition of the Institute of Encyclopedic research of NAS of UKAINE:
https://esu.com.ua/article-77504
https://esu.com.ua/article-77505
Magazine:
Szkicownik bez granic 2025
Art House 2024 Mood
Art House 2022 Ukrainian contemporary artist #8(2022)
At House 24\02\2022 4:55 a.m. WAR (2023)
The press about us:
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Cyprus Museum of Modern Arts:
Kateryna
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Tetiana
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