Artistic Porcelain Painting — Mastery School with KEKHZ Veterans
The museum launches a six-month KEKHZ mastery transmission programme for young ceramists — veteran curators pass on techniques of underglaze painting, relief modelling, hand gilding.
In January 2026 the Kyiv Porcelain Museum began a six-month educational programme 'KEKHZ Mastery School' — a unique initiative to transmit the artistic tradition of former factory employees to the new generation of Ukrainian ceramists and porcelain artists. Programme curators — three KEKHZ veterans with a combined experience of over 100 years, who worked at the factory in 1970-2003. The programme accepts eighteen participants — graduates of ceramic departments of the Kyiv Academy, Lviv Academy, Kharkiv Academy of Design.
School disciplines: underglaze cobalt painting (the most complex KEKHZ technique), relief modelling of large-scale forms, author hand gilding by classical technology, composition of multi-element ensembles. Each participant produces a graduation work under the guidance of one of the curators. Unlike academic training — the programme focuses specifically on those techniques that are not transmitted through paper manuals, but only through the living demonstration of the master's hand. School diplomas receive official verification of the Union of Artists of Ukraine.
