Vita Kurasheva

Victoria Kurasheva

is an Oslo-based jewellery artist with over a decade of professional experience. She is the founder and designer behind the independent jewellery brand Vita Kurasheva, which brings together one-of-a-kind art pieces and small series of wearable jewellery.

PRACTICE

Working primarily with silver and natural minerals, Kurasheva specialises in creating settings for rough and irregularly formed stones, allowing each mineral’s natural structure to guide the design. She also works with faceted natural gemstones.
Her artistic practice explores organic forms, memory, loss and belonging.

BACKGROUND & EDUCATION

Kurasheva established her first independent studio in Omsk, Siberia, and later continued her practice in St Petersburg. She has been based in Oslo since 2022.
She is currently studying Art and Design: Art and Dissemination at OsloMet.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

"In Her Care"  Ring

2025

"In Her Care" Ring

This piece reflects the fragility of infancy and the silent fear of motherhood. A transparent infant, cast in glass-like acrylic and filled halfway with blood, connected to the woman’s hand by an invisible bond. The blood is not the child's own, but the mother's: a symbol of life, connection, and mother's sacrifice. The baby appears both material and ghostlike, its fragile body suspended helpless and dependent. The ring is heavy, delicate, and difficult to wear. Just like the emotional weight it represents.
Through this work, I express the overwhelming vulnerability of early life, the invisible yet powerful bond between mother and child, and the quiet terror of harming someone so precious. The baby is a vessel of life, of fear and love -- fragile in mother's hands.

Exhibited:
FRAGILITY – Munich, Munich Jewellery Week 2026

“Social Bridle”  Mask

2025

“Social Bridle” Mask

In the age of constant self-exposure, we’re told to “show up,
” “be visible.
” So we step into the
spotlight, facing our deepest fear: shame.
This facepiece is inspired by the Scold’s Bridle - a brutal iron mask once used to silence
women. I reimagined it in thin silver: deceptively light. A chat window overlays the mouth.
Inside, a tongue plate marked “censored” blocks speech.
The mask explores the cost of online presence, in exposure and suppression. To be heard,
one must conform: to platforms, algorithms, laws, and internalized fears.
What promises connection often enforces silence.

Exhibited:
FRAGILITY – Munich, Munich Jewellery Week 2026

Forest collection

2024

Forest collection

The collection was inspired by Norway's beautiful nature

Stone Tree

2023

Stone Tree

A series of trees made of silver and natural raw gemstones

Artwork Featuring Natural Crystals

2023

Artwork Featuring Natural Crystals

Jewelry made of silver and raw gemstones, whose shape is dictated by the natural form of the stone

Survival Grip

2022

Survival Grip

This ring was created during one of the hardest times in my life. When my home country started a war, I had to leave everything behind — my home, my studio, my past. I moved to Norway and started from scratch. For a long time, I couldn’t create. Grief, fear, and survival silenced my hands.
But eventually, I found a way back through nature. I saw my own sense of helplessness mirrored in the world’s quiet collapse — in melting ice, in animals losing their homes, in oceans warming. This ring became my way of speaking again.

An octopus, made of silver, wraps itself around a chunk of raw crystal — a melting iceberg. It clings with all its strength, trying to hold on to something that is disappearing. Its grip is desperate.

This piece speaks of powerlessness and persistence. Of life trying to survive against forces too big to stop. Of holding on even when you know you can’t win — but refusing to let go anyway.

Cosmic Flowers

2018

Cosmic Flowers

A collection inspired by natural forms and imaginings of the unusual shapes flowers might take on other planets

Textures of the Sea

2017

Textures of the Sea

A collection of coral-shaped silver pieces

Textures of the Sea

2017

Textures of the Sea

Textures of the SeaA collection inspired by underwater landscapes

Stingray

2016

Stingray

Early work with a marine theme.

Dreamcatcher

2014

Dreamcatcher

One of my early works. My first works were created in 2009