Catarina de Oliveira was born in Lisbon 1984, she currently lives in Rotterdam and is doing a Master of Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Her practice incorporates: theatre plays; dance pieces; videos and audio plays. Through the use of stylised imagery, restrained formal compositions and fragmented narratives, her artworks seek to investigate and question how power structures operate and their manifestations through social and political rituals – particularly when it comes to the exercise of authority. She has been addressing such issues mostly by rendering the directorial input visible and by creating narratives that escape dialectical and linear forms of engaging with time – whether historical time or fictional time.