If you’ve already checked teamLab Tokyo off your list, get ready to add a new one. This Fall 2025, the Japanese art collective will open its newest permanent museum, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, bringing a fresh wave of experimental digital art to one of Japan’s most historic cities.
Located in Minami-ku just southeast of Kyoto Station, Biovortex Kyoto isn’t just a repeat of the wildly popular teamLab Borderless or teamLab Planets in Tokyo. Instead, it pushes even deeper into the collective’s ongoing fascination with perception, existence, and the way art emerges through interaction, blurring the line between viewer, artwork, and environment.
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A new kind of teamLab experience: where art exists because you’re there
At teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, many of the installations only fully exist through your physical presence. The artworks evolve and regenerate as you move through them, often resisting even the notion of being captured on camera. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the confirmed works:
Massless Amorphous Sculpture
Image Credit: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto Official Website
Imagine stepping inside a massive sea of floating bubbles that seem to hover in mid-air, neither falling nor rising fully to the ceiling. This sculpture transcends physical mass, constantly merging and fragmenting as people interact with it. Even when broken, it naturally restores itself—unless damaged beyond repair. Rather than being made of solid material, the work sustains itself through an energy dynamic that teamLab calls a High Order Sculpture. It’s as though you’re stepping into a living, breathing organism made of light and air.
Massless Suns and Dark Suns
Image Credit: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto Official Website
In this space, clusters of light spheres respond to your touch, radiating ripples of brightness that flow across the room. But these spheres don’t exist as solid objects. Instead, they’re pure light, with no material boundary. Some appear as glowing suns, others as darkened spheres, but neither can be captured on camera. As teamLab describes it, these sculptures exist entirely within the world of perception — “when it exists in perception, it exists.”
Morphing Continuum
Image Credit: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto Official Website
With glowing suspended elements floating all around you, Morphing Continuum creates a hypnotic biocosmos where individual forms shift continuously yet remain part of a single unified structure. Even when its shapes change dramatically, the installation sustains itself, much like a living system that evolves with its surroundings.
Traces of Life
Image Credit: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto Official Website
This interactive piece is powered directly by its visitors: as you walk, your footsteps leave behind glowing traces that remain for a while before fading into the space. Without people inside, the artwork remains dormant. It only comes alive through human presence, embodying teamLab’s core philosophy that art is co-created with its audience.
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Haven’t you seen teamLab already? Not quite.
Image Credit: teamLab Borderless Tokyo Official Website
If you’ve already been wowed by teamLab Planets or Borderless in Tokyo, Biovortex Kyoto offers something very different. While the Tokyo museums focus on sensory overload (think endless mirrored rooms, floating flowers, and knee-deep water installations), Biovortex shifts the spotlight to perception itself. Here, many of the works only exist through your interaction. The installations are lighter, more abstract, and deeply tied to your movement and presence. It’s less about walking through giant spaces and more about seeing how your existence shapes the art in real time. For returning fans, it’s a completely new way to experience teamLab’s evolving vision.
Kyoto’s latest creative hub for the next generation
Image Credit: teamLab Biovortex Kyoto Official Website
The opening of Biovortex Kyoto is part of a larger cultural redevelopment project near Kyoto Station, aimed at nurturing youth culture, digital innovation, and new forms of interdisciplinary art. Supported by local companies in Kyoto and Osaka, the museum hopes to evolve into both an immersive art experience and a creative hub, blending Kyoto’s deep cultural roots with the possibilities of emerging digital futures.
Whether you’ve already visited teamLab’s Tokyo museums or are completely new to the collective’s work, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto promises a fresh, thought-provoking experience that feels right at home in one of Japan’s most tradition-rich cities.
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