In the heart of Palma’s old town, behind centuries-old stone walls, sits Can Bordoy Grand House & Garden—a luxury five-star hotel with a beautiful walled garden, where its timeless atmosphere has been suspended in space by the enchanting exhibition of The Yeti’s Garden by Korean artist Miju Lee.

Invited to meet PR Manager Monica Cerdá Gómez and Gallery Assistant Abril Furcada I entered the cobbled courtyard and was immediately greeted by a whimsical sculpture: a Yeti, holding a flower, stepping timidly into the world. This gentle yeti is the central figure of Lee’s first exhibition in Spain, a collaboration with Madrid gallery owner Marc Biblioni, who discovered the artist five years ago through social networks.

Lee’s path into art was anything but conventional. Originally trained as an industrial designer, she abandoned that career to follow her intuition, moving to Barcelona to study ceramics. It was there she shaped her distinctive voice—fusing Western abstraction with East Asian sensibility. The result is a pictorial language where ambiguity, softness, and fragility aren’t weaknesses, but rather luminous symbols of inner strength.

At Can Bordoy, this delicate tension between vulnerability and resilience is embodied in the Yeti—a shy, lumpy figure crouched in stillness, expressionless yet quietly resilient. For Lee, the Yeti is an alter ego, inspired by her childhood dreams. In Himalayan cultures, the Yeti is a guardian spirit, a supernatural force connected to the untamed wilderness and revered as a protector of sacred lands. In Lee’s work, it becomes something even more intimate: a guide through memory, imagination, and the most vulnerable corners of the self.

The exhibition, composed of twelve sculptures and paintings, carries viewers into a dreamlike world, where reality and reverie dissolve into one another. In Underwater, positioned on the stairwell beneath the hotel’s rooftop pool, rippling light reflections spill across the canvas, echoing its theme: that life is rarely as it seems on the surface, and that deeper truths reveal themselves only when we dare to look beneath the surface. Another piece, Fuego – The End of the Dream, depicts the Yeti within a mirror overlooking the Hotel’s bar, quietly reminding us of endings that seed new beginnings. Other key elements in Lee’s symbology, such as mushrooms and butterflies, evoke concepts such as ideas or delicacy, with the Yeti being the guide of her world.

What struck me most was how seamlessly Lee’s work harmonised with Can Bordoy itself. The hotel already blurs past and present, offering guests a retreat into stillness and beauty. Likewise, Lee’s yetis invite us to pause, to embrace the unknown, to hold space for tenderness in a world that often demands a harsher reality.

This exhibition also reflects a refreshing trend in the art world: moving artworks beyond the white walls of galleries and into spaces that breathe with life. Experiencing art in such an environment—surrounded by gardens, stone arches, and the hum of quiet conversations—changes how we receive it. It feels personal, almost like stepping into a friend’s home, where art is lived with rather than simply observed.

For those seeking an experience that nurtures both the senses and the spirit, The Yeti’s Garden offers more than visual delight. It is a meditation on vulnerability as beauty, on silence as strength, on the quiet resilience that so often goes unnoticed in our daily lives. Pair it with a cocktail at the bar, or a gastronomic meal at Botànic, the hotel’s ‘plant forward’ organic garden restaurant, and the experience becomes nourishment for both body and soul.

If you find yourself in Palma before October 31, don’t miss the chance to wander into Miju Lee’s world. Like the Yeti itself, the exhibition does not dictate meaning—it suggests, it whispers, it leaves room for the magical. Sometimes, the most profound discoveries lie not in what we are told, but in what we are invited to imagine.

The Yeti’s Garden by Miju Lee
📍 Can Bordoy Grand House & Garden, Forn de la Gloria 14, Palma de Mallorca
🗓 Open daily until October 31
* Free admission

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