Tokyo’s teamLab Borderless has unveiled three new installations before reopening in its new home at Azabudai Hills in February 2024.
As previously confirmed, teamLab Borderless is moving from Tokyo’s Odaiba waterfront to the new urban village. The digital art experience closed in Odaiba in August 2022.
Created by the teamLab art collective, teamLab Borderless is a world of artworks without boundaries that move out of rooms and influence each other.
Flowers and People
New installations in the upcoming space include Bubble Universe: Physical Light, Bubbles of Light, Wobbling Light and Environmental Light; Flowers and People – Megalith Crystal Formation (work in progress); and Black Waves – Megalith Crystal Formation (work in progress).
The first artwork, Bubble Universe, features reflective spheres with lights inside that move continuously and others that don’t move at all. Each sphere’s lights react to each other and to the visitors within the space.
The other exhibition at teamLab Borderless, currently in progress, is titled Megalith Crystal Formation and is divided into two parts – Flowers and People and Black Waves.
In Flowers and People, guests will experience flowers growing, blossoming and then dying. “The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back: it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time,” says teamLab. Finally, Black Waves explores how all oceans are connected to each other.
Black Waves
teamLab Borderless first opened in June 2018 in the Palette Town retail and entertainment complex. It attracted 2.3 million visitors from more than 160 countries in its first year.
Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko, teamLab has art experiences in Shanghai, Tokyo and Macao.
“Physical media is no longer the limit,” teamLab told blooloop.
“Digital technology has made it possible for artworks to expand physically. Art created using digital technology can easily expand.”
