teamLab announces kyoto museum with massless sculptures and interactive light works

teamlab biovortex kyoto set to open later this year

teamLab announces the launch of its upcoming museum, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, set to open in Minami-ku, Kyoto in the Fall of 2025. The immersive space will serve as a cultural hub for experimental digital art, featuring new and previously unseen works that merge perception, environment, and embodied experience. Continuing the Japanese art collective’s exploration of what it means to ‘see’ and ‘exist’ in a world shaped by light, space, and interactivity, it will invite visitors to move through environments that defy conventional notions of physical form. From floating spheres to a suspended landscape of light, each of the artworks will change and evolve in response to the body and its surroundings.

Among the highlights is Massless Amorphous Sculpture, an immersive, bubble-filled environment in which a vast floating form hovers mid-air. Shifting continuously, it resists the constraints of mass or boundary. Visitors can physically enter the sculpture, yet it remains structurally stable, restoring itself if disturbed, and collapsing only under irreparable pressure. The piece exists as a ‘high order sculpture,’ shaped by energy and environment rather than matter.

Morphing Continuum | all images © teamLab, courtesy Pace Gallery

from massless suns to shape-shifting forms

Also premiering at teamLab Biovortex Kyoto is Massless Suns and Dark Suns, a cognitive artwork formed of intangible light spheres. When touched, these spheres ripple across the space, yet they have no material surface and cannot be photographed. The installation plays with perception, suggesting that it exists only within the viewer’s consciousness — a ‘sculpture’ made of interaction and interpretation rather than physical mass. Morphing Continuum expands on this idea of spatial-temporal existence. Made up of glowing elements suspended in air, the work behaves like a living system and maintains form even as its components shift. Its ambiguous edges and changing structure create an experience that is fluid, immersive, and self-regenerating.

In Traces of Life, people generate the work simply by being present. As they move through the space, their footsteps leave behind traces that accumulate over time. yet without the presence of people, the space remains inert. The work reflects teamLab’s belief that art is ever-evolving and co-created, activated through collective experience.

Forest of Resonating Lamps — One Stroke, Fire

the new digital museum enhances kyoto’s cultural ecosystem

The new museum will form part of a larger development effort led by Kyoto City to create a cultural and creative zone in the southeastern area of Kyoto Station. With support from local companies in Kyoto and Osaka, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto aims to become a platform for youth culture, interdisciplinary collaboration, and new forms of artistic production. In this context, the museum is both an artwork, continually changing shape within, and a new cultural infrastructure that is anchored in Kyoto’s long-standing artistic heritage while oriented toward emerging digital futures.

Resonating Microcosms — Solidified Light Color