Independent dancer and curator of contemporary arts. As a dancer and choreographer, she develops and participates in artistic projects within an interdisciplinary scope. Her focus as a curator is on emerging international artists and artists' collectives. She lives and works in Berlin.

She studied Philosophy in Lima at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and in Germany at the Freie Universität Berlin. She holds a postgrade in Cultural Policies and Management of the Universitat de Barcelona and a diploma of the Independent Study Programme of MACBA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain.

She has been working in the field of arts management since 2001, including working for institutions such as House of World Cultures in Berlin and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, USA. After her work as Exhibitions and Program Coordinator at Casa Asia, Barcelona, she started curating contemporary arts in 2006 with IN_FUSION, an exhibition about Peruvian contemporary art. IN_FUSION was presented at Cervantes Institute Berlin in 2007 and at Cervantes Institute Munich in 2008. She was invited as a curator for the International Prague Triennale in Czech Republic in 2008 with her project Hybrid Identities in Urban Landscapes. She has curated exhibitions in Berlin and also in Barcelona for the BAC! Festival in 2008 and 2009. Katerina works also as art critic and has been writing for some printed and online magazines, such as Kunst Magazin Berlin, Artfacts, the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia.

As a contemporary dancer, she has been in Peru, Brazil, Spain, Poland, Serbia, Indonesia and Germany working for different dance companies, but also presenting her own choreographies. She usually does collaborative works within a multidisciplinary approach and works with visual artists, sound artists and experimental musicians.

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