TeamLab Borderless Re-opens in Azabudai Hills in February 2024

TeamLab Borderless: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM (teamLab Borderless) is moving from its former location in Odaiba and is set to reopen in the Azabudai Hills in central Tokyo on February 9, 2024. Since opening in the summer of 2018, teamLab Borderless in Odaiba has welcomed 2.3 million annual visitors from more than 160 countries and regions, breaking the world record for the most visited single-artist museum in the world. The new joint project between teamLab and Mori Building will feature a diverse group of artworks that have evolved since the closure of the previous location, as well as several new artworks that will be presented for the first time.

TeamLab Borderless is a world of artworks without boundaries and a museum without a map. As visitors immerse themselves in this borderless art, they “wander, explore and discover.” For the upcoming exhibition, teamLab is creating new works based on the collective’s recent art project, “Existence in Perception,” which explores the notion of perception and existence and how people see the world through the experience of the artworks.

For example, the new work Bubble Universe: Physical Light, Bubbles of Light, Wobbling Light, and Environmental Light features bubble-like spheres, each containing a different phenomenon of light. This installation explores cognition and existence and how humans view the world while simultaneously suggesting that phenomena exist in a continuous relationship with their environment. Similarly, in the Microcosmoses - Jelly (tentative title), countless jelly-like masses of light wobble as they move through space, yet they only exist in our perception.

In Megalith Crystal Formation, numerous works comprising the teamLab Borderless world will travel from room to room and fill the exhibition space. In Flowers and People - Megalith Crystal Formation (work in progress), a computer program generates flowers in real-time, making them emerge and fade repeatedly. The flowers also change as they respond interactively to the visitor’s behavior, creating an image unique to the moment.

Reality is not what we see. What we see is a world that we are capable of perceiving. Once the world that we perceive changes, our perception of the world will expand, and then our actions will subconsciously begin to change. (Excerpt from the “Existence in Perception” concept)

In addition to the announced works, the new teamLab Borderless will feature many additional interactive installations. This is undoubtedly the birth of a new spot that will inevitably become a viral sensation on social media. Stay tuned for the upcoming new releases and ticket information.