A little piece of France has arrived in Tokyo for Art Week. Maison Ruinart, the world's oldest champagne house, has invited the Japan-born, Paris-based artist Tadashi Kawamata to create a work for the fair week, installed in the brand's pop-up champagne and art bar in Daikanyama.

The project, titled "Conversations with Nature 2026", brings together three installations at the Daikanyama T-Site Garden Gallery, on view from 28 October to 8 November. According to Ruinart, the works "ask us to reconsider the relationship between nature and humanity", a theme Kawamata has returned to throughout a career spent building large-scale wooden structures in public space.

Kawamata, born in Japan and long based in Paris, is known for interventions that reshape how people move through and notice familiar places, from gallery interiors to city streets and waterfronts. His Ruinart commission translates that approach into an intimate, hospitality setting, where visitors encounter the work over a glass of champagne rather than in a white cube, and where the boundary between artwork, furniture and gathering place is deliberately blurred.

The collaboration continues Ruinart's long-running programme of artist commissions, which has become a fixture of the art fair calendar in recent years, with artists previously invited to respond to the house, its vineyards and its cellars. For Art Week Tokyo, it adds a commercial crossover to a week otherwise dominated by fair booths and museum shows, and gives Kawamata a Tokyo platform during one of the city's busiest moments for contemporary art, with the bar open to visitors throughout the fair week.