Yuliia Pylypchatina

Yuliia Pylypchatina
Ceramic artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine
Born in Artemivsk (Bakhmut), Ukraine, Yuliia founded her own ceramic studio in 2014 in Kharkiv. With the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she was forced to relocate to Belgium, where she continued her artistic practice and began exploring overglaze porcelain painting and ceramic jewelry that merges illustration, symbolism, and form. Since late 2023, she has been living and working again in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2024, her works were exhibited at Mriya Gallery, New York.

Artist’s Statement

Yuliia’s art revolves around recreating the lost past - a dialogue with absence, memory, and survival.
Born in a region where wars and repression erased entire generations, she grew up without family relics or inherited memories. Her ceramics are acts of restoration - objects that stand in place of those destroyed, rebuilding continuity between what was and what remains.

She treats clay as a metaphor for fragile endurance - vulnerable yet capable of outlasting centuries when handled with care, much like memory itself. Her hand-painted surfaces draw on traditional and historical motifs, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Each piece balances between the utilitarian and the sacred, between object and testimony. Through her practice, Yuliia seeks to mend the gaps left by history - creating tangible evidence of persistence, identity, and belonging.

All of Yuliia’s jewelry is made entirely by hand - hand-built from clay, finished with glaze, hand painting, and 12-karat gold detailing - where ceramics itself becomes a jewelry material.