KORYTSIA HASIKOVSKA ceramic artist working with imperfection, the body, and clay.

I was born in a village in Ukraine — where bodies, weather, and land aren't really separate. They shape each other, day by day. I grew up there with a musculoskeletal condition, which taught me early that a body isn't an ideal — and over time I learned to see beauty in this and a connection to the forms of nature. It is a living, changing thing — often vulnerable, almost always imperfect, and always worth listening to.

Clay has been the centre of my practice since 2018. For several years I kept an isolated studio in the mountains of Ukraine, where the rhythm of the landscape became the rhythm of my hands. Long firings. Slow days. That stretch of quiet is the foundation of everything I make now.

My work lives where ceramics meets the body — its memory, its adaptations, its strength. I treat the body as a landscape open to deformation, growth and repair, rather than a form to be perfected. The surfaces are honest, and the cracks stay where they fall.

I trained in decorative and fine arts and in jewellery — Hadiach College of Culture, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Poltava National Pedagogical University.

Since 2025 I have been showing the work more openly — at Mystetskyi Arsenal (Kyiv), Design Week Ukraine, Kraina Mriy, Milky Rivers of Ukraine, the yoga festival in Izky, and the ceramics show at Domosfera (Kyiv).

I now live and work in Valencia, Spain. Different light, different soil — same hands, same questions about the body.