Opening February 11, 2026, at 7 pm, With a conversation with writer Salomé Gómez-Upegui
Miami, FL – 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.
