Our Story

UNEARTHED is a gallery, studio and tea space in Munich for tea and teaware. It opened in the middle of 2023. In 2024, the first full year, the gallery showed eight exhibitions with 28 artists, worked with 40 artist-makers and showed more than 1,000 pieces. In the same year we took part in around 30 events and festivals.

The pieces come from Japan, China and Europe. Most of them are made for tea: teapots, gaiwans, chawans, cups and pitchers in ceramics, glass, wood and metal. Every maker is chosen by Marcel himself. Most exhibitions show one maker or one region at a time.

Three Rooms

Gallery + Shop

The front room holds the current exhibition and the permanent collection. Everything in the room can be bought, in the gallery or online.

Tea Room

The tea room is where the tastings and workshops take place: the Specialty Matcha Workshop, the Journey of Tea tastings, and Tea Saturday, an open afternoon without booking. Guests from Japan, China and Europe who make or sell tea pour their own teas here.

Studio

The studio is where Marcel throws his own pots and where the UNEARTHED glass line is designed. Every glass piece starts as a 3D file, gets printed, filled with water and poured out, and is changed one detail at a time before the file goes to the glassblower. The first line, mouth-blown borosilicate glass, came out in 2026.

Tea

Part of the range is our own label, tea from farms we work with directly, and part comes from tea experts whose work we trust, among them Oscar Brekell, HOJO and Marukyu Koyamaen. Every tea is tasted before it goes into the shop.

Matcha became a separate range when cafés in Munich asked for a matcha that works in milk without sugar. Today we supply around 20 cafés, bars and shops. The same matcha, as well as many more high-end grades, is sold in the gallery for drinking at home. The workshops teach what decides the taste: cultivar, shading, harvest, milling and preparation.

About Me

I am Marcel Karcher. I have been drinking tea seriously for more than 15 years and making teaware for more than ten. Before UNEARTHED I worked in mathematics and business consulting, and a nine-month sabbatical through India and China led to this gallery. I choose every maker, I taste every tea, and on most days I am in the gallery myself. The longer version is on my maker page.

Opening hours and the address are on the contact page. Dates for tastings and workshops are in Events + Workshops, and cafés and shops find the wholesale conditions under B2B.