Art historian and curator focused on early twentieth-century visual culture in Ukraine and East-Central Europe. Her research interests include the intertwining of modernist art and decorative/folk practices, questions of imperial legacy and national identity, and the intersection of art production and socio-politics. 

In 2022–26, Katia co-curated the exhibition In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, which won the Apollo Exhibition of the Year Award for 2023 and was shown across six European museums. She also co-edited and contributed to the accompanying catalogue, published by Thames & Hudson in 2022. Since defending her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2024, Katia has held research fellowships at the University of Basel and the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen in Germany, where she co-leads a research project on abstract art in East-Central Europe supported by the Getty's Connecting Art Histories initiative. She is also collaborating with the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on their upcoming exhibition projects. 

Katia is currently working on a monograph that explores the evolution of Ukraine's decorative practices and folk art in the first half of the twentieth century as informed by imperial subjugation, transcultural exchanges, and nation-building processes. During the residency at the Center for Urban History, she will conduct archival research at Lviv institutions related to this project.