Ekaterina Galera (b. 1977, Ulan-Ude, Russia) is a visual artist based in Toulouse, France.

Originally trained in linguistics, she approaches painting as a form of constructed language that operates through material rather than text. Since 2009, she has lived and worked in Toulouse.

Her practice is grounded in a close, physical engagement with the surface. Working primarily with charcoal and natural pigments on wood panels, she builds each work through layering, pressure, and reduction. Material is applied, pressed into the ground, and then worked back, leaving a surface shaped by persistence more than by intention.

In recent works, dark masses appear as deposits rather than gestures. They are compressed, displaced, and held at the edge of the surface — neither fully integrated nor separate, carrying a quiet tension between presence and disappearance.

The work develops through a process of attention and restraint, where the image is not imposed but found. A presence emerges, not as a figure, but as weight against the surface.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​