Aspen’s most beautiful dinner is born as WE ARE ONA turns the entire restaurant into an art installation
This floating art installation is just stunning
Summary
- WE ARE ONA is curating an immersive dining experience for the 2026 Aspen ArtCrush Annual Gala.
- Chef and artist Caique Tizzi is in charge of the dinner menu.
- Artist Boris Acket is creating a large-scale suspended art installation.
- Bringing together cuisine, art, and spatial design to blur the boundaries between exhibition and restaurant.
- Rethinking fine dining to create a multi-sensory art experience.
Held annually in Aspen, the ArtCrush Annual Gala is the Aspen Art Museum’s signature fundraising event. This year, culinary creative team WE ARE ONA was invited to design the 2026 dinner, redefining it as an immersive experience that brings together food, art, and spatial design, with guests becoming part of the work from the moment they enter the venue.
Food and art create an immersive setting together
Images from Instagram / @we.are.ona
Chef and artist Caique Tizzi designed the menu for this dinner, working with artist Boris Acket to suspend a large-scale art installation above the tables. The work interacts with the lighting and space, blurring the boundaries between exhibition and restaurant, viewing and dining.
Redefining the possibilities of Fine Dining
Images from Instagram / @we.are.ona
As an important annual celebration of contemporary art at the Aspen Art Museum, this project once again reflects WE ARE ONA’s creative philosophy. Through cross-disciplinary collaboration among food, art, and spatial design, it transforms a dinner into a complete cultural experience, making Fine Dining more than simply tasting food: an immersive artistic journey that brings together the senses, aesthetics, and storytelling.
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