Art collective teamLab and Saudi Arabia‘s culture ministry have announced that the Middle East’s first teamLab Borderless museum will open in Jeddah in the summer.
Located in Jeddah’s historic district on the shores of Alarbaeen Lagoon, teamLab Borderless is a 10,000-square-metre space filled with artworks without boundaries.
Artworks move out of rooms, communicate with each other, and influence other works to form one borderless world.
“People wander through the world, exploring with intention, creating and discovering a new world with others,” teamLab said in a press release.
teamLab’s new borderless world
In addition to the borderless world, teamLab’s Jeddah site includes a creative athletic space called ‘Athletics Forest’, an experimental educational project named ‘Future Park’, the ‘En Tea House’, and the ‘Forest of Lamps’.
Athletic Forest aims to understand the world through the body. “It trains spatial recognition and promotes the growth of the hippocampus of the brain,” teamLab said.
“People immerse their entire body in the complex and physically challenging three-dimensional space of the interactive world.”
Future Park, meanwhile, is described by teamLab as an amusement park where visitors “can enjoy creating the world freely with others”.
As for the tea house, guests will make tea and watch as a flower blooms inside the teacup. “The tea in the bowl becomes an infinite world in which the flowers continue to bloom,” added teamLab.
Earlier this year, Tokyo’s teamLab Borderless reopened in a new home in the Azabudai Hills complex.
“We wanted to create a physical, spatial art that expands infinitely, where people walk around with intention; a physical art that becomes one with the body, changes through the presence of people; where the artwork world is continuous with the body,” said teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko. “That is the foundation of teamLab Borderless.”
Elsewhere, the new teamLab Phenomena in Abu Dhabi is now 70 percent completed.
Images courtesy of teamLab
