teamLab "Flowers Blooming in the Infinite Universe Inside a Small Object" © teamLab
" EN TEA HOUSE " is a tea house where you can experience the infinite world of flowers blooming continuously in a cup of tea.
Flowers are continuously drawn in real time by a computer program, blooming in glory with each season. This work changes interactively in response to the actions of the people present, allowing visitors to experience through art the law of nature, where people and nature, and self and other, are connected in a borderless manner.
<EN TEA> will continue to take on the challenge of communicating Japanese culture and aesthetic values to people all over the world by expressing the fine taste of tea that is cultivated in symbiosis with nature through its works.
An art experience that digitally expands beauty
teamLab "Tea Tree" © teamLab
TeamLab "A Waterfall Possessing a Rock for People" © TeamLab
EN TEA has been working on tea cultivation and pursuing the ideal of “beautiful tea” that is in harmony with nature and human activity. They were inspired by teamLab’s art, which sees beauty in the seamless continuity of everything without boundaries, and began collaborating with them in 2017.
From the unique perspective of both parties, who seek to expand the concept of "beauty," "EN TEA HOUSE" was born on the theme of "tea," a taste that is rooted in the daily lives of Japanese people, and that allows us to feel the philosophy and aesthetic sense of Eastern culture as well as Japanese culture. The first exhibition of this artwork space, "teamLab Borderless" in Odaiba, Tokyo (closing in 2022), opened in June 2018 and has attracted 2.3 million visitors from 160 countries and regions around the world in the one year since its opening. Together with the artwork, a total of 350,000 cups of "beautiful tea" have been delivered.
Exhibition History
EN TEA HOUSE Genkatei Mori Building Digital Art Museum: Epson teamLab Borderless (Odaiba, Tokyo) *Closed on August 31, 2022https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/odaiba/
Kyushu Takeo Onsen Mifuneyama Rakuen TeamLab A Forest Where Gods Live (Kyushu, Takeo Onsen)
https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/mifuneyama_genkatei/
teamLab SuperNature Macao
https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/macao/
teamLab Borderless Shanghai, Shanghai
https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/shanghai/
EN TEA HOUSE Taikokyo
teamLab Massless Beijing, Beijing
https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/beijing/
EN TEA HOUSE Otouro Mifuneyama Rakuen Hotel (Takeo Onsen, Kyushu)
https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/mifuneyama_otoro/
teamLab "Bubble Universe: Solid Light, Light Bubbles, Bouncy Light, Light Generated by the Environment - One Stroke" © teamLab
"Mori Building Digital Art Museum: Epson TeamLab Borderless"
Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza B B1 (1-2-4 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Opening hours: 10:00-21:00 (last entry 20:00)
Closed: First and third Tuesdays
https://borderless.teamlab.art/jp/
EN TEA HOUSE - Genkatei
https://en-tea-house.teamlab.art/jp/azabudai/