teamLab Planets Tokyo has announced an opening date for its expansion, which includes four new spaces for digital art.
Debuting on 22 January 2025, the expansion increases teamLab Planets‘ area by 1.5 times and introduces areas including ‘Athletics Forest’, billed as a multi-dimensional creative athletic space.
teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko said: “We started this project, Athletics Forest, with the hopes to enhance three-dimensional and higher-dimensional thinking.”
He described it as “a three-dimensional space that excessively demands the physical body” and “a space where people can perceive art with their physical bodies”.
New spaces for digital art at teamLab Planets
The new ‘Catching and Collecting Forest’ is a space where visitors can use their smartphones to capture and study extinct creatures.
“Physically exploring with others, discovering and catching something, then taking the chance to broaden interests based on what was caught. This is what we have been doing naturally over the long course of human history,” Inoko said.
“For humanity, the acts of catching and gathering are fun, educational, and part of life.”
Another new area is ‘Future Park’, an amusement park where guests can co-create an endlessly evolving artwork.
Across these new zones, more than 10 new immersive artworks will be on display. Also coming to teamLab Planets is the ‘Sketch Factory’, a retail experience where guests can take home products featuring their own creations.
teamLab Planets Tokyo currently comprises four large-scale artwork spaces and two gardens created by art collective teamLab.
Earlier this year, the attraction set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most visited museum dedicated to a single group or artist after welcoming 2,504,264 visitors between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024.
teamLab recently opened a unique outdoor experience in Osaka, Japan that uses elements like wind, rain and sun to create artworks.
Images courtesy of teamLab
