Lavia Lin

28/05/2026

Thrilled to be part of the Win-Win Window Exhibition 🎨✨

Curated by .korpela , this cool Berlin neighbourhood project transforms everyday windows into temporary exhibition spaces — bringing art out of the gallery and into the streets of Neukölln and Kreuzkölln.

My paintings will be on view at the cozy neighborhood restaurant starting from 01.06-30.06.💫

The win-win window exhibition project offers a walkable, discoverable encounter with art, no ticket needed. Just follow the route through the Kiez and let yourself be surprised. 🌿

Check out all the participating artists and spaces at 👀

See you in the Kiez 🫶

Thanks to .korpela for having me :)

26/05/2026

Dance in Colors : Summer Solstice 🌿✨

Where movement meets paint, and nature becomes your muse.

This summer solstice, we’re taking it outside. We’ll gather in the open air of Treptower Park — letting the colors, sounds, and textures of the natural world move through us, onto our bodies, and onto the canvas.

Guided by Camila La Rotta (Biodanza facilitator) and Lavia Lin (artist) , this afternoon weaves together Biodanza and intuitive painting to awaken your senses, reconnect you with your body, and bring our collective colors to life.

No experience needed. Just an open heart and bare feet welcome 🌱

🗓 Sunday, June 21 · 14:00 – 18:00
📍 Treptower Park, Berlin — outdoors 🌳

🎟 Early bird: 50 € (until June 10)
Pay what feels right: 60 – 80 €
Duo ticket: 80 € for two — bring a friend 🌸
All materials included (art, tea & snacks). link in bio 🔗

✉️ Register: [email protected]

Photos by
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13/05/2026

A Soft Passage. ✨

Last week we had the pleasure of opening our exhibition at their warm new home — the beautiful Sicilian restaurant .

A Soft Passage brings together the works of Riikka Korpela .korpela and Lavia Lin in a celebration of the present moment:
fleeting, luminous, and worth lingering in.

Riikka’s work begins with observation and ends somewhere else entirely — transforming the familiar streets, shop windows and landscapes she encounters into dreamlike, vibrant worlds inhabited by creatures that feel both strange and strangely close.

Lavia’s paintings emerge from listening — from jazz improvisation, rhythmic gesture and melodic flows of colour that translate sound into something you can see and feel.

Together, their work traces a quiet passage — from the heard to the seen, from the ordinary to the luminous. The exhibition is an invitation to slow down, look closely, and pause in the quiet interval between one moment and the next. 💫

Come visit, enjoy a delicious meal prepared with love, and let the art be part of the experience. 🍝

And some wonderful news : the exhibition has been extended until 8. July ! 🎉
Join us for the finisage on 8 July with a small intimate concert- a last and beautiful chance to experience " A Soft Passage“ in full.

A heartfelt thank you to for so generously hosting our works, and warmest congratulations to the wonderful Marcella & Martin on the first anniversary of this beautiful gem. 🩵

See you soon.

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12/05/2026

Straight No Chaser
A painting that started out to be something else entirely , and found its own song along the way. Excited to share this one with you 🎨!

Yes, another Monk tune. Another Monk painting. I always come back to Thelonious Monk when I need something that’s challenging and fun in equal measure — his music doesn’t ask permission, it just arrives, stubborn and joyful and completely its own thing. This painting felt the same. I didn’t plan it, I didn’t control it. I just kept answering back until it said what it needed to say.
The chaos in the middle is the point. The red drip that reaches the floor is the point. Straight, no chaser is also an attitude — a willingness to follow the call without knowing the destination, to keep moving without softening it.

Come see this work along with other music-inspired paintings at ZENE ✨
An evening shaped by sound, frequency and shared energy.
An exhibition you don’t just see — you feel.
🎛 18:00–19:30 Music Production Workshop
🎨 20:00 Exhibition Opening
🎶 20:00–00:00 Producer Showcase
📍
📅 20 May 2026
Come through, stay, connect.
Donation-based entry.🩵

Hope to see you there!

10/05/2026

Something special is happening next Sunday. 🎨🎶
We are so excited for the second edition of Sunday, May 17th at — and we would love to see you there. 💫
Two pairs of visual artists and musicians, two very different states of creation:
▪️The Prepared Dialogue
Music by .piano × Art by .studio
A work developed together over weeks — witness what they’ve been quietly building.
▪️The Improvised Encounter
Music by .pap.flute.art × Art by
They meet on stage for the first time. No rehearsal. No plan. Just presence.

↓ Swipe to meet the artists and see impressions from our first edition at — captured beautifully by 🙏
Parallel/Play has received so much warmth and encouragement since we began, and we are deeply grateful. This project exists because we believe in the dialogue between visual art and music — and in creating space for that to happen live, in real time.
Come and support independent international artists in Berlin. 🌍
Tickets via link in bio 🔗we hope to see you there. 🎟🩵🫶

04/05/2026

Jade Visions

Freshly painted, just in time for its first exhibition. Come see it in person at .workshops this Thursday alongside works by .korpela, and say hi 🎨🩵
Some paintings take time to find themselves. This one started as a question: how do you paint a friendship?
Not any friendship — the specific, rare kind where two people are so attuned that the music they make together couldn’t exist without both equally present. ✨
Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro had that. Evans floating, searching, luminous; LaFaro underneath, steady and warm, but never just accompanying. He listens so closely he finishes thoughts that haven’t been spoken yet.

Bill Evans has inspired a few introspective paintings of mine, he’s one of my favorite pianists🎹 but this one is special because painting dialogue is something else.
It means finding two visual languages that coexist without one swallowing the other. The real work was getting them to actually talk, to meet, cross over, exchange the lead.

Creative friendship is like that. It asks you to hold your own voice while staying completely open to someone else’s. To be fully yourself without compromising — because if it’s someone who truly understands the creative value you carry, what you build together can be something neither of you could have reached alone. 💫

If you want to go deeper into their story, check out Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026), Grant Gee’s film about their friendship. 🎶🤗

Who is that person for you?
Jade Visions
40*50
Acrylic, pastel on canvas
2026
jazzpainting

01/05/2026

In the Mood for Monk🎶🎨
Being productive while not painting the paintings I actually wanted to finish 😅
I have been wanting to work on pieces for the upcoming exhibition, but between the busy event weeks and a funding application, the brushes have been quieter than I’d like. So today I decided to warm up, and ended up starting a brand new painting and almost finishing a painting I’d been leaving behind. 😎

”Straight No Chaser” felt like exactly the right spirit. I always come back to Thelonious Monk when I need something that’s challenging and fun in equal measure — his music builds in layers and structures that feel almost painterly, and this one was no exception. It started with a different inspiration entirely, but today Monk called, and I answered.
Some songs just do that 🩵

What’s yours — the one you go back to when you need a push, a cheer-up, or just a good rush of inspiration? 💫

21/04/2026

A Soft Passage ✦

There is a quiet interval between one moment and the next — a threshold where perception softens, time slows, and something beneath the surface becomes visible.

We are thrilled to invite you to the vernissage of " A Soft Passage“, a joint exhibition by Lavia Lin & Riikka Korpela .korpela
📅 7 May, 7pm 📍 workshops , Berlin

Two practices in dialogue — abstract painting rooted in sound and memory, and surreal digital imagery born from the streets of Berlin and beyond.
A Soft Passage is about the space in between: between a note and its echo, between the familiar and the dreamed, between looking and truly seeing. It is an exhibition that moves through sound and image, memory and presence — tracing the quiet moments we often pass through without noticing, the thresholds that hold us briefly before we move on.
Both artists work at the edges of perception: one translating music into colour and gesture, the other transforming the ordinary world into something luminous and strange. Together, their work asks: what do we carry with us as we pass from one moment into the next?
An evening to slow down, look closely, and find something you didn’t know you were looking for. 💫

Come as you are. Bring a friend. 🫧

01/04/2026

Have you noticed the little signals of spring? Green sprouting, flowers blooming. After a pause, April is awakening 🌸and so is my calendar.🍃
I’m very excited to share what’s coming (also good for my own buzzy brain to keep track, honestly 😄):

10 April — Coco+Tea: A cozy gathering with music by Coco. Think fun, avant-garde free jazz, improvisation, free-flowing gongfu cha. I can’t wait to see what this tea & music combo becomes. 🎶🍵

12 April — Parallel/Play 1st Edition: Visual arts & music in live dialogue. Launching our first edition at Fincan Neukölln with visual artists and musicians bringing their practice into conversation. 🎨🎶
Co-curated with .korpela 🫶

15 April — FLINTA* Interdisciplinary Jam by Chaos Emblematic : Musicians, dancers, dreamers and visual artist coming together to create something magical 💫 I’m hosting the visual art corner again—if you want to paint, draw, and be inspired by movement and music, come by. 🎨🎶🪩

16 April — China Social Club: A TCM-inspired dinner gathering with my dear friend Giulia . Home-cooking style nourishing, healthy Chinese meals. Spring energy on a plate. More details coming soon. My first-ever pop-up dinner 🥹 🥗

19 April — Roots & Wandering: Tea & journaling Berlin vibes, falafel, delicious tea, colorful journaling tools. 🍵✍️

Details in bio. Check the newsletter for more! Or dm me if interested in joining any of the events 🙏

春生 — spring generates. Let’s go.☀️😎

01/04/2026

Spring, tea, and something new brewing 🍵-

Have you noticed the little signals of spring yet? The flowers quietly blooming, the first greens beginning to sprout. After the stillness of winter, and entering the year of the Fire Horse with a mindful pause, April arrives full of new events, collaborations and artworks in progress.