"Tea with the Artist" - Mark Rothko
EVENT HELD IN RUSSIAN
The host: Marina Kirilina is an independent art curator, university lecturer and creator of the international art biennale Mediainnovatsia. Through her work she explores new ways of engaging with art by combining cultural storytelling, dialogue and sensory experience.
Tea with the Artist is her original format, inviting people to experience art through tea, conversation and contemplation.
Program Overview
An immersive cultural experience through art, tea and conversation
This event will be held in Russian.
Tonight we won’t try to understand the artist.
Instead, we’ll spend an evening with him.
We usually experience art with our eyes.
We visit museums.
Read exhibition labels.
Listen to lectures.
But what if there was another way?
What if art could also be experienced through taste, atmosphere, silence and conversation?
Tea with the Artist is an original immersive cultural experience where art, tea and dialogue come together.
It is not a lecture.
It is an invitation to slow down, observe, reflect and experience art in a different way.
Each evening is dedicated to one artist and one carefully selected tea that echoes the spirit of their work.
Our first evening is dedicated to Mark Rothko.
At first glance, his paintings seem remarkably simple.
Large fields of colour.
Very little narrative.
Yet people stand in front of them for hours.
Why?
Together we’ll explore Rothko’s life, artistic vision and most iconic works—not in search of the “correct” interpretation, but in search of our own experience.
We’ll look carefully.
Slow down.
Share impressions.
And perhaps discover something deeply personal.
More details
The tea of the evening
For Mark Rothko we have chosen aged Pu-erh.
Deep.
Layered.
Patient.
Like Rothko’s paintings, it reveals itself gradually, rewarding attention rather than haste.
Tea becomes another language through which we experience art.
During the evening
A specially selected tea set inspired by Mark Rothko
An engaging introduction to Rothko’s life and artistic vision
Guided viewing of his most important works
A relaxed conversation where there are no right or wrong answers—only personal impressions and discoveries
About the project
Tea with the Artist is a series of immersive cultural experiences where every evening is dedicated to one artist and one carefully chosen tea.
We don’t try to explain art.
We create space to experience it.
Through taste.
Through atmosphere.
Through conversation.
Because art is not only something to look at.
It is something to live.
The details.
No event?
Just come.
Drop in for à la carte teas or book a Tea Journey any Friday, Saturday or Sunday between 12:00 and 18:00. No ticket needed — just reserve your seat.
Open Fri–Sun · 12:00–18:00 · Vörösmarty utca 19/A · Budapest