Image: Mori Building Digital Art Museum: EPSON teamLab Borderless, Tokyo
teamLab has opened teamLab Biovortex Kyoto as a permanent digital art installation in Kyoto, adding a major new venue to the collective’s expanding network of immersive museums and exhibitions. The project is presented as opening on Oct. 7, 2025, and the teamLab website describes it as a permanent site in Kyoto centered on the theme “Universe of Existence, Universe of Perception.” Tickets are now on sale.
The Kyoto venue is organized under the teamLab umbrella as a museum-like environment for large-scale experiential works rather than a conventional gallery exhibition. According to the official site, the project includes multiple sections, among them Artworks, Athletics Forest, Future Park, Entrance and Sketch Factory. The museum also lists practical visitor information, including timed-entry admission, opening hours from 9:00 to 21:00, and an address in Minami-ku, Kyoto, near Kyoto Station. The venue notes that there is no dedicated parking for cars or motorcycles and encourages use of public transportation.
Among the works named on the site are Morphing Continuum, Sea of Solidified Light, Forest of Resonating Lamps: One Stroke - a Year in the Mountains, Massless Amorphous Sculpture, Massless Suns and Dark Suns, and a wide range of other installations. The breadth of titles suggests a substantial permanent environment built from interlinked rooms and experiences, extending teamLab’s long-running interest in light, motion, perception and bodily engagement. Athletics Forest is described as a “high-dimensional thinking athletics space,” while Future Park is presented as an educational project based on collaborative creativity.
teamLab, founded in 2001, describes itself as an international art collective working at the intersection of art, science, technology and the natural world. Its website says the group includes artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects, and that its practice seeks to explore the relationship between the self and the world and new forms of perception. The collective also states that its work aims to transcend boundaries in how people perceive the world and the continuity of time.
The Kyoto opening matters because it places teamLab’s immersive digital art inside a permanent institutional setting in one of Japan’s most important cultural cities. Unlike temporary installations that exist for a limited run, a permanent site offers sustained access for local audiences, tourists and repeat visitors, while also extending the collective’s museum model beyond its established locations in other cities. The project fits into a broader international context in which major museums and collections increasingly exhibit or collect teamLab works, including institutions in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Helsinki, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Istanbul and New York, as listed by the collective.
The venue’s emphasis on participation is also significant. The site says photography and video are allowed, and that visitors can create related objects through Sketch Factory, where drawings made in certain works can be turned into badges, magnets, puzzles, hand towels, T-shirts, tote bags or papercraft. Taken together, these features position teamLab Biovortex Kyoto not just as a display space, but as an ongoing environment in which viewers are meant to move, create and experience the works physically. For the wider art world, the opening underscores the continued reach of digitally driven, immersive installation art as a lasting part of contemporary museum culture.
