TeamLab's first museum will open in Tokyo

Digital Art teamLab, a vast collective of 400 people including designers, animators, engineers, programmers, mathematicians, and architects, is about to establish its own museum in Tokyo.
In the past, teamLab had already proven the possible combination of art and science in exhibitions around the world, such as the one that took place at Pace Menio Park in 2016 that brought in some 200,000 visitors in 10 months, but this is the first time it is founding a museum of its own. And what better place to set it up than the capital of Japan, a city where cultural tradition and cutting-edge technology go hand in hand?

The museum, which will be called “MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless,” will open its doors this summer and will be a collaboration between teamLab and MORI building: the former will provide the art technologies and set up the spaces, while the latter will provide the place where the museum will be based, namely in the Odaiba area of Tokyo.

PACE Gallery, a gallery representing the collective, on the other hand, is not involved in the project. A representative of teamLab wrote in an e-mail addressed to Artnet, “there is still no museum dedicated only to digital in the world. We wanted to create exhibitions that offered a dimension of limitless work, and we realized that we needed to create just such a museum at the end for this to be fully realized.”

TeamLab promises to “liberate art from physical constraints and transcend the limitations of contemporary society” and to “put the viewer inside the painting.”

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TeamLab's first museum will open in Tokyo

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