Villa Róż, Art Warsaw, 2026: Cat Roissetter
Overview
Cat Roissetter, Oil Pastel Study for Painting, 2020, Coloured pencil, graphite, crayon on linseed, turps and cooking oil primed paper, 31 x 23.5 cm
Cob is pleased to present British artist Cat Roissetter for Villa Róż, Art Warsaw offering an encounter between drawing, material archive, and architecture, using the building’s layered history as an active conceptual frame rather than a neutral backdrop. Villa Róż combines 19th-century palatial interiors with the dense, bureaucratic atmosphere of a Cold War diplomatic mission—an architecture shaped by surveillance, discretion, and control. This charged setting offers a compelling context for Roissetter’s exploration of Englishness as a cultural and psychological construct.
The presentation brings together a suite of new drawings with an installation of reference materials drawn from the artist’s studio: nursery rhyme books, toby jugs, and chintzy porcelain figurines. These objects are displayed independently but in close dialogue with the drawings, forming a domestic archive that mirrors the logic of Roissetter’s imagery. Together, the works stage a tension between innocence and corruption, nostalgia and repression, intimacy and observation.
Cat Roissetter (b. 1984 London. Lives and works in Sheffield) has had solo exhibitions at Cob Gallery, London, UK; Nathalie Karg, New York, US and Brocket Gallery, London, UK. Roissetter has presented in group exhibitions at Terrace Gallery, London; The Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea) Turin, Italy; Blyth Gallery, London UK; Cob Gallery, London, UK and Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK. Roissetter was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing prize in 2013 awarded the Augustus Martyn Print Prize and the Sketch Prize, both in 2011.
