Victoria Yakusha Unveils Miami Gallery, Blending European Elegance with Local Flair

Victoria Yakusha Space in Miami blurs the boundaries between  architecture, interiors, collectible design, and contemporary art through an  interdisciplinary approach. Functioning simultaneously as a design studio, gallery,  and research environment, it presents Yakusha Studio’s architectural vision  alongside refined interior solutions and hand-crafted objects.

Curated works by contemporary artists sit within this framework, expanding the  dialogue between materiality, form, and emotion. The result is a space that offers not  just services, but an entire design philosophy – one that approaches the built  environment as a living, evolving ecosystem.

The interior of the new Victoria Yakusha Space in Miami is a study in contrasts – a  space where European sensitivity meets the charged, celebratory energy of Miami to  form something entirely new. For Victoria, whose design language has always been  rooted in subtlety, depth, and quiet emotional resonance, Miami presented a  fascinating challenge. The city is known for its brightness, boldness, and a kind of  glossy, almost festive aesthetic that stands in direct opposition to her restrained,  soulful European style.

Rather than resisting this contrast, Victoria allowed Miami to transform her approach.  The result is an interior that preserves the full depth and intellectual detail of her  European sensibility, but gains an unexpected lightness that belongs inherently to Miami and could not have emerged anywhere else. What formed is a kind of elevated  ease: an airy, luminous minimalism that still carries the quiet magic at the core of  Victoria’s work.

At the heart of the interior is the principle that defines much of Yakusha’s practice – the union of opposites. She combines the rough and the refined, the warm and the  cool, the ancient and the futuristic. Stone and clay sit alongside metal; natural  textures meet polished surfaces. These opposing materials and forms are brought  together through a unified colour palette and soft, sculptural lines, creating a holistic  visual language where contrasts dissolve into a single, coherent world.

One of the most striking elements of the Miami space is the use of Ukrainian clay. All  gallery walls are coated with a clay finish, crafted in Ukraine and shipped across the  ocean. In Miami, this material gains a new presence – grounding, tactile, and deeply  connected to Victoria’s roots. The clay stands in dialogue with a stainless-steel  cabinet, a piece that embodies futurism and modernity. Ukrainian earth and cold  metal, heritage and future, softness and precision – two extremes that together  create the space’s emotional rhythm.

At the centre of the space stands a living island, a sculptural arrangement of plants  that forms the emotional core of the space. It anchors the room like a breathing heart,  bringing life into a setting where the ceiling and visible technical elements remain  openly industrial. This juxtaposition – the organic island against the exposed infrastructural ceiling – creates a visual narrative about coexistence: the living and  the engineered, the natural and the constructed.

Circular forms appear throughout the interior, including a round mirror, a round  island, and a round table. The motif of the circle echoes the philosophical foundations  of Victoria’s work – continuity, connection between past and future, the unbroken  movement of time.

The space also hosts metal and wooden artifacts that reference ancient  craftsmanship and mythic creatures, reinforcing the dialogue between eras and  suggesting a world where history and imagination intertwine.

The atmosphere that emerges is magical, mystical, almost otherworldly. When the  space is illuminated, the clay walls, the sculptural creatures, and the living greenery  form a setting that feels like a quiet myth unfolding inside Miami. The studio becomes  a magical garden – a living minimalist landscape inhabited by symbolic beings,  suspended between reality and fantasy.

It is, in essence, a form of living minimalism: a world where European detail and  intellectuality give way to a soft, modern fairy tale. A mystical environment that  Victoria brought to Miami – and one she now invites visitors to step into and  experience for themselves.