Katya Desnenko

Katya Desnenko, born in Ukraine and based between Israel and Portugal, works across drawing, painting, and sculpture, with a primary focus on ceramics informed by a background in architectural lighting design. Her style honors the honesty and tactile nature of materials, combining slow, meditative ceramic processes with the energy of rapid ink drawings, and she embraces the visible traces of making in her work. Through evocative forms rooted in everyday life and the human body, she invites viewers to feel presence, contemplation, and the subtle interplay between personal experience and universal meaning.