Tea & Art Practice
Creation
Curation
Perception
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Tea as a living medium for art, space & encounter
For us, tea is not only served as a drink, but approached as a medium — a way to gather people, shape attention, open conversations, and create sensory encounters around multidisciplinary art and cross-cultural dialogue.
Our Tea & Art Practice brings together contemporary art, exhibition-making, performance, sound, text, and tea culture. Through tastings, artist-led gatherings, tea rituals, public programmes, and collaborative events, we explore how tea can become part of an artistic experience: a structure of relation, rhythm, hospitality, interpretation, and reflection.
Rooted in Chinese and East Asian tea traditions, our practice is shaped by international contemporary art and cultural scenes. We work between curatorial thinking and sensory experience, between public programmes and private encounters, between curated structure and open conversation.
RIGA CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
Daily Tea Sessions for Exhibition Semantic Strata
As part of the exhibition Semantic Strata in Riga Contemporary Art Fair, we curated a series of daily tea sessions specifically in response to Chinese artist Zhai Liang’s paintings, which reinterpret knowledge, language, and imagery from two classical Chinese encyclopedia books. Each session paired a specific tea with selected words and concepts from the artworks, using taste, aroma, and conversation as a way to translate visual and textual ideas into embodied experience. This project marked an important step in our research on tea as an interpretive medium—one that connects books, artworks, and knowledge systems through sensory participation.
July. 2025
POSITIONING SYMPOSIUM at
AMOS REX ART MUSEUM, HELSINKI
Tea Performance within a Contemporary Art & Curatorial Learning Context
September. 2025
VALENTINA ČERNIAUSKAITĖ: THE TALES WE TELL
Tea Session on Time & Memory for Exhibition Reading at Galleria Loisti (Helsinki)
For a reading session accompanying the artist Valentina’s exhibition in Helsinki, we designed a tea experience responding to the exhibition’s theme of time. Participants tasted two ancient tree Sheng Pu’er teas from different years - one recently produced and one naturally aged - creating a sensory encounter with temporal change through aroma, texture, and flavor. By placing these teas in dialogue, the session translated an abstract theme into a bodily experience. The contrast between freshness and maturity, emergence and accumulation, offered a way to reflect on how time is carried, transformed, and perceived beyond language.
October. 2025
LAVENDER OPENER CHAIR, TOKYO
Tea Session for Inga Danysz’s Exhibition forever more
During the artist Inga Danysz’s exhibition forever more (2024) at Lavender Opener Chair in Tokyo, we developed a tea session responding to the hybrid condition of the space: both a gallery and an izakaya. The artist’s work had already transformed from a wall-hung artwork into a table placed at the center of the space, later used by guests for dining. Our tea session extended this gesture by activating the table as a communal tea table. Through tea, the work became not only something to look at, but a social structure to gather around, use, and share. The session brought together artwork, furniture, hospitality, conversation, and bodily presence, using tea as a relational and spatial medium.
November. 2024
KAKEGAWA CHAENNALE, SHIZUOKA, JAPAN
Multi-sensory Tea Ceremony in a Historical Site
Within the local tea and art biennale (Chaennale) context, we developed a multi-sensory tea ceremony in dialogue with a historical school building, live sound composition based on the local tea production recording, and local artist Miyako Morishita’s installation work, which had actual tea leaves embedded into the painting. Set within a former private academy, the project responded to the memory of the site, the architecture of the space, and Kakegawa’s local tea culture. Here, tea functioned as a site-responsive medium, and the tea ceremony created a sensory encounter between tea, sound, architecture, visual art, and collective presence. Participants were invited to experience the site through taste, listening, spatial awareness, and touch perception, allowing the historical building to be encountered not only as a setting, but as an active part of the work.
November. 2024
