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SoraNews24
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- SoraNews24
Japan's beautiful TeamLab art group opening its first permanent immersive museum in Kyoto【Video】
Installations are high-concept enough for deep-thinkers, beautiful enough for anyone to enjoy. With the amazing art installations of Japan's TeamLab being a consistent hit with travelers and Kyoto being one of the country's top tourism destinations, it's surprising that the organization hasn't had a permanent venue in the city. That'll be changing soon, though, with the opening of TeamLab Biovortex Kyoto. TeamLab Biovortex Kyoto is part of the redevelopment project for the neighborhood on the south side of Kyoto Station, a section of the city that's short on historical sites and other tourism attractions compared to the rest of Kyoto. TeamLab is billing the venue as an immersive art museum, and the exhibits combine the group's expertise in digital creations with interactive elements to give visitors the opportunity to walk through what feels like an entirely different, and entirely beautiful, world. Best embodying this is ironically, the non-corporeal Massless Amorphous Sculpture, which TeamLab describes as an immense bubble sculpture 'transcending the very concept of mass,' adding: 'The contours of its existence are ambiguous—it fragments into smaller pieces, but merges into a larger mass. Even when people fully immerse themselves in this sculpture, its existence remains intact. If broken by people, it naturally restores itself.' That's not the only 'massless' exhibit at the museum, though, which will also house Massless Suns and Dark Suns. As a work of art made of light, TeamLab says that there exists no clear boundary between the artwork and its observer, who can affect the location and intensity of the lights by reaching out towards the orbs. Morphing Continuum is what TeamLab refers to as a 'high order sculpture,' a work of art that is generated by phenomena present in its unique environment. As with the Massless Amorphous Sculpture, the artwork remains intact even as people move through it, and TeamLab asserts that the baseline structural order allows its nonconnected individual elements to form a single element that 'transcend[s] space and time.' Transcendence is also a theme of the last so-far previewed installation, Traces of Life, in which the footsteps of visitors walking barefoot through a pool of water leave traces of light that form into trails and create sights that can only be seen because of the people within the art space. Or, if all that conceptual pontificating is enough to make your head spin or your eyelids heavy, there's nothing wrong with appreciating how, regardless of what they're attempting to represent, each of the installations is very, very pretty. TeamLab Biovortex Kyoto is scheduled to open this fall. Source: PR Times, TeamLab Top image: PR Times Insert images: PR Times, TeamLab ● Want to hear about SoraNews24's latest articles as soon as they're published? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! [ Read in Japanese ]
Time Out
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Finally! teamLab is opening a permanent immersive art museum in Kyoto
With permanent spaces in major cities across Japan including Tokyo and Osaka, it's about time teamLab opened one in Kyoto. So, good news: the world-famous art collective is finally launching a permanent museum right in the heart of the ancient capital come autumn. Called teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, this immersive art space is part of a new creative hub within the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Project. While details are still scarce, we do know the museum will showcase all-new artworks including some never before seen in Japan. The pieces are made of materials you wouldn't normally expect in conventional art, and in typical teamLab fashion, you can literally step into the installations. Here are four artworks teamLab recently revealed for the new museum. Massless Amorphous Sculpture At first glance, this piece looks like a floating mass of soap bubbles. It's certainly no typical sculpture, being neither solid nor gaseous. According to teamLab, this 'Higher Order Sculpture' is made of 'energy, movement and balance'. It interacts with the people around it: it can wrap around a viewer and even reconfigure itself if it gets pulled apart. Despite looking delicate, it holds its shape surprisingly well, as long as the environment is right. Massless Suns and Dark Suns This endless field of glowing light spheres is what teamLab calls a 'Cognitive Sculpture'; an artwork that explores how we perceive the world around us. When you touch one of the spheres, it lights up, and nearby spheres respond in a ripple effect. But there's no solid object here – just light. The sculpture doesn't really exist in the physical sense. It's a product of your perception, and this just shows how our minds shape what we perceive. Morphing Continuum Another of teamLab's 'High Order Sculptures', 'Morphing Continuum' is made up of floating, glowing spheres that move and shift like a living organism. teamLab calls this a 'biocosmos', a 'living' system that depends on invisible forces like air flow, light and energy. People can walk through it, and even if its form gets disturbed, it naturally reshapes itself. Traces of Life 'Traces of Life' is an interactive installation that exists only because of its viewers. Without people, it's just a dark space. When someone walks through it, their footsteps leave glowing trails that linger long enough to connect with others, creating a large, living pattern in the space. For more information, check teamLab Biovortex Kyoto's website.
