teamLab create borderless and immersive digital worlds in new Shanghai Museum
By Stu Robarts 27 Nov 2019
The 6,600sq m (71,000sq ft) destination is described as an intricately-structured three-dimensional space / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
In the future, we would like to work to create outdoor experiences in lush nature, where our artworks exist within the environment as one part of the surrounding nature.
– Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
Art collective teamLab have launched their second digital-only Borderless museum, described as "a world made of artworks without boundaries."
Located in Huangpu District, Shanghai, teamLab Borderless Shanghai follows the launch of MORI Building Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless in Tokyo last year.
Designed by teamLab Architects, the 6,600sq m (71,000sq ft) destination is said to be an intricately-structured three-dimensional space housing around 50 artworks.
Visitors walk through the galleries experiencing digital artworks that move out of the rooms around them, form connections with and react to them and transcend the physical space of the museum, moving between other teamLab Borderless museums around the world.
Among the artworks on display are a vast forest of lamps that light up with the proximity of visitors and digital light sculptures comprising more than 1,000 densely packed moving lights.
teamLab told CLAD: "The teamLab Borderless museums are, to some extent, museums in urban areas. However, in the future, we would like to work to create outdoor experiences in lush nature, where our artworks exist within the environment as one part of the surrounding nature."
teamLab Borderless Shanghai opened at the start of November.
The museum houses approximately 50 artworks / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
Artworks move out of rooms, react to visitors and transcend the physical space of the museum / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
Visitors walk through the spaces experiencing the digital artworks around them / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
The Microcosmoses installation comprises hundreds of lights that change colour and speed base on the proximity of visitors / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
The Forest of Resonating Lamps installation comprises lights that react to visitors and transmits their reaction to other lamps / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
Although seemingly randomly scattered, the lamps are joined by a single connecting line / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
Forest of Resonating Lamps combines physical lamps with a digital connectivity / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
The Columns installation comprises a group of waterfalls the flows of which change as people approach / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
teamLab Borderless Shanghai follows the launch of MORI Building Digital Art Museum: teamLab Borderless in Tokyo last year / Exhibition view of teamLab Borderless Shanghai, 2019, Shanghai © teamLab, teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery
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