GORN is a ceramics workshop, specializing in creating unique elements of decor and art objects. Their product line is a blend of experienced, albeit youthful, vigor of true inspiration. Adapting to the desires of customers, be it a fresh idea or a predesigned sketch, GORN always remain true to its own style and conviction.
Yuriy Myrko is an artist-ceramist, born in 1983 in the city of Opishnya, Poltava region, known as the "ceramics' capital" of Ukraine. After school, Yuriy studied and worked at a ceramics factory for one year. He graduated from Poltava National Technical University in the field of "Fine Arts and Crafts". After University, he started his own workshop in Opishnya. In 2018 he moved to Kyiv and together with Bogdan Kryvosheya founded the GORN Ceramics.
“For me, clay is a material that makes you alive. I know every ceramic technique, but I always feel my co-authorship with the material, it's a joint process of creation. "
Bogdan Kryvosheya was born in 1994 in Kyiv. He graduated from the Queen Mary University of London, with a degree of Business Management. In parallel with his education, Bogdan was involved in music, fashion and design projects. In 2015 he returned back to Kyiv, where he took an active part in organizing different festivals and events, including the art festival of dissociative art "That's Wassup". In 2018, together with the artist-ceramist Yuriy Myrko founded a ceramic workshop GORN Ceramics.
“Ceramics for me implies pure spiritualism. GORN Ceramics is a project that is dynamically developing into new directions and paths. We create what we cherish aesthetically, conceptually, energetically, and what we think is important. ”
Apart from that, Bogdan is involved in many art and design projects; working with different artists and workshops; has established an art manufactory in Kyiv in the same year 2018, called 22F.