From walking through water in Tokyo, to standing amidst crystalline lights in Singapore, the work of digital art collective teamLab has continued to astound audiences around the world with their interactive and powerful pieces. Often questioning the relationship between technology and nature, their work can be seen in the digital flowers at New York’s Grand Central Terminal that grow and die and bloom again, to their night-time teamLab Botanical Garden in Osaka, where art is dependent on the nature and park that it occupies.
Their latest is set to occupy a creative space in the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project and is set to be teamLab’s largest museum in Japan. Spanning over 10,000m2, the artwork displayed uses materials not commonly seen in conventional art.
Currently six pieces have been announced, some of which have never been exhibited in Japan before. One of them is Massless Amorphous Sculpture, an immense floating piece (currently on view in Abu Dhabi and Miami). Using only soap, water and air, this huge floating foam structure allows people to immerse themselves in it and marvel at how it reconnects and puts itself back together until it is completely destroyed.
Another piece using the same materials is Morphing Continuum, a sculpture with a shape and continuity generated by its environment. It is designed to transcend conventional notions of physical objects and sustain its existence mid-air even when people immerse themselves inside it. Its nature allows it to restore itself even if it breaks.
Other works include the astounding Forest of Resonating Lamps, previously showcased at teamLab Borderless in Tokyo. While the arrangements of lamps appear to be random, they actually create a single connected path of light from one lamp to another, never intersecting more than once.
Kyoto is an hour and a half from Osaka’s Kansai International Airport and easily reached by car or train. teamlab Biovortex Kyoto is scheduled to open on 7 October 2025, with more installations to be unveiled over time. Tickets are already available here.
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