teamLab Borderless is set to relocate from Tokyo’s Odaiba waterfront to the Toranomon-Azabudai Project, the city’s new urban village. It is scheduled to open in 2023.
Mori Building Company, Japan’s leading urban landscape developer, announced the news in a press release. The current museum in Odaiba will close on 31 August 2022.
teamLab’s digital art museum first opened in June 2018 in the Palette Town shopping and entertainment complex. It attracted 2.3 million visitors from more than 160 countries in its first year.
teamLab moving to Toranomon-Azabudai Project
Approximately half of these visitors came from overseas, and 50 percent of them travelled to Japan in order to visit teamLab Borderless.
Toranomon-Azabudai Project is described as “a visionary ‘modern urban village’ designed to seamlessly connect people’s lives in diverse ways”.
It will be a vast open space in Tokyo with lush greenery, offices, residences, a hotel and an international school. There will also be retail outlets, restaurants and cultural offerings.
teamLab is a Japanese collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, architects and mathematicians. Founded by Toshiyuki Inoko, the group 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.”
Earlier this year, teamLab revealed the design for teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, a new permanent venue on Saadiyat Island.
Visitors at teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi “will be immersed into a world that organically changes and evolves through the participation and actions of the people in it”, said Inoko.
Images: teamLab
