About us
SHOLOMITSKA
We create ceramic objects for everyday use. We work with form, proportion, and surface, guided by the process. Each object goes from the first sketch to the final firing through careful handcrafting.
The forms are repeatable, but not mechanical – they retain the imprint of time, material, and human presence.
Created to naturally inhabit a space. Created to be used.
history
The SHOLOMITSKA brand grew out of авторська кераміка (author's ceramics) and many years of practice working with the material. Its emergence was not a separate decision, but rather a natural continuation of a process that began during the professional training of a ceramic artist. From the very beginning, ceramics was not just a craft, but a way of thinking and self-expression. The first works were created in educational workshops and did not always meet the expectations of the academic environment. Some of them never made it to reviews, returning to clay during the experimentation phase.
This experience shaped an important attitude towards the process – not clinging to the form, but allowing the material and time to guide the work forward. The choice of ceramics as the primary material was rather intuitive. Other options existed alongside it – wood, textile, metal, but what was decisive was not what to work with, but how to convey feelings through it.
Over the years, the author's practice gradually grew into a brand. The path to their own workshop was long and consistent: shared student spaces, first small premises, gradual accumulation of equipment, tools, and experience. Even the smallest workshop became a point of growth, a place where the brand's character was formed. This development was not abrupt or pre-planned – it happened organically, along with experience, mistakes, and the search for one's own pace.
Today, SHOLOMITSKA is a niche brand with its own showroom in Kyiv and full-fledged production that has grown to a significant scale thanks to a partnership with Alex Cooper. This collaboration opened up new contexts for the brand and the possibility of international presence. SHOLOMITSKA ceramics are used, for example, in the London restaurant Tatar Bunar, co-founded by Alex Cooper. Svitlana Sholomitska's work was also recognized by British Forbes as part of the Ukrainian artistic context that preserves and reinterprets traditions in modern conditions.
Manual labor remains at the core of the process, so scaling is always challenging. At the same time, the individuality of each item is preserved: in its surface, shape, glaze, and minor finishing differences. The forms are repeatable but not mechanical — they retain traces of the material, time, and human presence. Each product bears the stamp of the master who cast it. This is a quality control element and, at the same time, a fundamental brand position: behind every item stands a specific person, not an impersonal system.
SHOLOMITSKA creates ceramics for everyday use — beautiful, useful, and calm. They are designed to be a backdrop against which life unfolds. A sense of comfort and satisfaction becomes part of this experience.