I'm KORYTSIA — and this is Kohasi, where my work lives.

I was born in a small village in Ukraine, in close relation to the natural environment, where body and landscape are felt as a single system. Living with a musculoskeletal condition shaped my interest in corporeality — not as an ideal, but as a vulnerable, changing, imperfect form.

In my practice I work with the body as a space of memory, trauma, adaptation and strength. Through ceramics I explore it as a living landscape — open to deformation, growth and repair. Clay is, for me, a sensitive material that records touch and gesture, and lets the body find its voice beyond normative ideas of beauty and form. The work is grounded in a feminist lens and aims to rethink the natural and to hold imperfection as value.

I trained in decorative and fine arts and in jewellery (Hadiach College of Culture named after I. P. Kotliarevskyi; Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts; Poltava National Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko).

Since 2018, clay has been the central medium of my research. For several years I lived in the mountains of Ukraine, keeping an isolated practice focused on material and process. That period became the foundation of my method.

In 2024 I started lono_project — a social and artistic practice making ceramic forms of women's vulvas, from life or from photographs, for people who have survived sexualised violence. The project is about returning bodily presence, voice and autonomy through form. Participation is free.

Since 2025 I have been showing actively in exhibitions and festivals, including 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 currently live and work in Valencia, Spain, where I continue my research in clay.