TENET is an artist-led curatorial and research framework founded in London in 2023 by Til Han Qingshan. We work where art, architecture, and technology converge—turning exhibitions into public testbeds, research into shared methods, and archives into living infrastructure.
Our projects deploy imaging, sensing, 3D scanning, and point-cloud modelling to extend perception and re-read memory. We prototype, iterate, and publish process—sketches, scans, logs, interviews, toolkits—not as by-products, but as part of the work.
Known for our evocative and ambitious body of precision-crafted physical and digital artworks which reveal and reflect on beauty, fragility, and resilience, TENET invites and challenges us to explore our collective future.
This artistic practice resolves in a series of physical and digital works which thrive at the creative edge of a tool’s ability. Their aesthetic provides new ways to see, understand, and feel beyond the capabilities of our eyes or traditional cameras. Digitally Archive act as a witness, a process recursively embedded in their artworks; defining the moment when photography becomes spatial, the works serve as a unique archive of our rapidly changing planet. They aim to document and interpret both the data and the essence of environments and moments that might otherwise be lost to time.
Rooted in an artist-led tradition and shaped by a prototype-driven research culture, we treat technology as language, and material as intelligence. Programmes are site-responsive, ethically grounded, and future-literate.
Based in London and working across Hong Kong and Singapore, TENET convenes architects, artists, craftspeople, filmmakers, engineers, and software developers, collaborating with writers,musicians, choreographers, scientists, and civic partners to carry impact beyond the gallery—into publication, performance, education, and conversation.
Our projects deploy imaging, sensing, 3D scanning, and point-cloud modelling to extend perception and re-read memory. We prototype, iterate, and publish process—sketches, scans, logs, interviews, toolkits—not as by-products, but as part of the work.
Known for our evocative and ambitious body of precision-crafted physical and digital artworks which reveal and reflect on beauty, fragility, and resilience, TENET invites and challenges us to explore our collective future.
This artistic practice resolves in a series of physical and digital works which thrive at the creative edge of a tool’s ability. Their aesthetic provides new ways to see, understand, and feel beyond the capabilities of our eyes or traditional cameras. Digitally Archive act as a witness, a process recursively embedded in their artworks; defining the moment when photography becomes spatial, the works serve as a unique archive of our rapidly changing planet. They aim to document and interpret both the data and the essence of environments and moments that might otherwise be lost to time.
Rooted in an artist-led tradition and shaped by a prototype-driven research culture, we treat technology as language, and material as intelligence. Programmes are site-responsive, ethically grounded, and future-literate.
Based in London and working across Hong Kong and Singapore, TENET convenes architects, artists, craftspeople, filmmakers, engineers, and software developers, collaborating with writers,musicians, choreographers, scientists, and civic partners to carry impact beyond the gallery—into publication, performance, education, and conversation.
There is no other art organisation in the world quite like the TENET, which is simultanesouly a dynamic body of eminent practising artists and architects; an academy of practitioners, teachers and students; curator of exhibitions; and the custodian of a unique collection of art and architectural works. We are an intriguing juxtaposition of old and new. We are proud of our legacy but forward- thinking. We are deeply respectful of our heritage but constantly working to confront, challenge and create anew. We are committed to our founding mission but perpetually evolving. We are a living academy.
TENET ’s diverse portfolio includes large scale installation, film, sculpture, immersive storytelling and live performance which has been worked with prestigious cultural institutions including the Royal Academy (UK), It has also been widely published by the BBC, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Past collaborators include TOTO, eflux, AA, and Royal College of Art.
In an era of generative AI, computer graphics, and synthetic realities, TENET embraces their commitment to investigation, precision, equity, sustainability and truth.
In an era of generative AI, computer graphics, and synthetic realities, TENET embraces their commitment to investigation, precision, equity, sustainability and truth.
Til Han Qingshan
Artist，Curator & Director
Qingshan is an Artist and Director rooted in art and architecture.Her keen eye for finely-crafted aesthetics defines the base for TENET’s original, authentic artworks. She is happiest navigating complex topics, multi-disciplinary teams, and innovative technologies to create meaningful artworks that delight and inspire. She is an explorer moved to bear witness to the environment and society, and interrogate how technology will influence our futures. she is particularly proud of creating a environment that centres speculation, experimentation, iteration, prototyping and creative error making at all times. Her work seeks to reimagine the conditions of making as a space of thought, empathy, and continuous renewal.
Qingshan holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, and lives between London, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Holli Xue
Documentary Filmmaker & Producer
Holli Xue (b.1996) is a London-based visual artist and filmmaker whose practice spans artist film, moving image, and video installation. Their work merges documentary elements, experimental video, installation, and performance to explore trauma, capitalism, identity, and queerness — a non-cooperative method of existing. Through collecting evidence for the record of the uncelebrated and silenced, Xue creates a realm that bridges the lived and the imagined.
They are a current participant of the Conditions Studio Programme (2024–25) in London. Their recent works have been presented internationally across film festivals, art institutions, and independent spaces, including the Fringe! Queer Arts and Film Festival, Queer East Festival, and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Xue’s projects have been recognised with the Art Cabbage Prize 2024 (Animated Digital Art, Third Place), Audience and Jury Awards at the 9th Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, and a shortlisting at the Grierson Awards 2020.
Holli's writing and work have been featured in Divide Magazine (Issue 13) and ZYA’s digital magazine The Mix (Issue Zero). Xue’s ongoing research and facilitation extend to stop-motion animation workshops, post-pandemic storytelling, and queer community archives. They have collaborated with institutions including SOAS University of London, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Xiamen), and Zikawei Library (Shanghai).
Past Members
Over the years we’ve had the pleasure of counting Cindy, Johann, Harriet Zhang, Grey Grierson, Dorka Makai, Theo Tan, Reuben Carter, JC Nicolas, James White, Luca Veronese, Egmontas Geras, Julia Schütz, Sammy Lee, Fiona Zisch, Berni Devilat, Thomas Parker, Tom Svilans and Thomas Pearce as fantastic team members.
Kei Kagami
Fashion Designer, Architect, Creative Director, Advisor
Kei Kagami’s vision stems from a lifelong fascination with the relationship between architecture, the human body, and the act of creation. His work challenges systems of conformity and proposes fashion as a spatial, emotional, and philosophical practice — one that builds new structures of thought as much as garments. By embracing the architectural and sculptural dimensions of form, Kei expands the language of design into one of resistance, fragility, and transformation.
Within TENET, Kei’s guidance anchors the studio’s pursuit of material and conceptual experimentation. His cross-disciplinary approach resonates deeply with TENET’s curatorial ethos — to think through making, to translate between disciplines, and to explore how creative processes can shape new cultural and structural imaginaries. Kei’s commitment to collaboration and education continues to inform TENET’s evolving dialogue between art, architecture, and design.
After studying architecture at Meiji University and tailoring at Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, Kei worked under the legendary architect Kenzo Tange before moving to London to pursue fashion. He apprenticed with John Gallianoand later completed his MA in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins in 1992. Since launching his own label in 1997, Kei has become recognised for his avant-garde collections and long-standing partnership with YKK, where he now serves as Consultant for YKK Europe. Beyond his studio practice, he has contributed extensively to design education as External Examiner for MA Artefact and MA Footwear at London College of Fashion (2018–2023), and through mentorship programmes including Graduate Fashion Week (UK) and ITS Fashion Competition (Italy).
Yuchen Wu & Keyu Liu
Architects, Creative Technology Engineers & Producers
The architect duo within TENET’s curatorial team proposed the full-building 3D scanning of the exhibition site — an initiative that transforms the act of documentation into an artistic and spatial inquiry.
Through point cloud mapping and LiDAR technologies, the duo reimagines the architectural structure not merely as a backdrop but as a living body of memory. Their process treats each beam, wall, and imperfection as a carrier of temporal information — translating the site’s material and conditions into a digital landscape.
By embedding this method within TENET’s curatorial framework, they extend the exhibition’s life beyond its physical duration, creating an open digital archive for future reinterpretation. Their work reflects on the fragility and endurance of built environments, asking how spatial preservation can evolve into a form of collective imagination.
Working between architecture, digital heritage, and curatorial practice, the duo’s collaboration situates TENET within a new discourse where space itself becomes both subject and medium — a gesture that resonates with ScanLAB’s vision of witnessing and preserving the world through the lens of technological seeing.
Through point cloud mapping and LiDAR technologies, the duo reimagines the architectural structure not merely as a backdrop but as a living body of memory. Their process treats each beam, wall, and imperfection as a carrier of temporal information — translating the site’s material and conditions into a digital landscape.
By embedding this method within TENET’s curatorial framework, they extend the exhibition’s life beyond its physical duration, creating an open digital archive for future reinterpretation. Their work reflects on the fragility and endurance of built environments, asking how spatial preservation can evolve into a form of collective imagination.
Working between architecture, digital heritage, and curatorial practice, the duo’s collaboration situates TENET within a new discourse where space itself becomes both subject and medium — a gesture that resonates with ScanLAB’s vision of witnessing and preserving the world through the lens of technological seeing.
Architects Yuchen Wu and Keyu Liu, both graduates of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), form the architect duo within TENET’s curatorial team.