The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial | teamLab

Name: The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial
Start: 2026-06-05
End: 2026-09-08
Location: Saatchi Gallery

The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial

Jun 05 - Sep 08, 2026Saatchi Gallery, London

Group Exhibition

The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial

Jun 05 - Sep 08, 2026Saatchi Gallery, London

Group Exhibition

The Sun and the Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial

We are honored to be part of this group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London.
For teamLab, the exhibition held at this gallery in 2015 holds profound significance. The exhibition, featuring artworks such as Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders , became the origin that led to teamLab Borderless.
This time we will exhibit artworks from our “Cognitive Sculpture” series, which appear only in the human world of perception.The materials are light and the environment; and the subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception.
The spheres cannot exist on their own - its existence is a phenomenon created in relation to its environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world.
The boundaries of the artwork are ambiguous, and its existence is inseparably continuous with the environment and perception.

- Toshiyuki Inoko, Founder of teamLab

Artworks

Massless Suns and Dark Suns

We do not perceive the world we see, we see the world we perceive.
A group of countless spheres of light. When people approach the spheres, they shine brightly and the surrounding spheres respond one after the other.When you widen your field of vision, spheres made of darkness also begin to appear, as though darkness has been solidified. However, these spheres of light and spheres of darkness do not exist. The spheres of darkness cannot even be captured on camera.
There is no material, such as glass, on the surface of the spheres; the spheres are made only of light. There is no material surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary with your body is ambiguous. In reality, light cannot solidify into a spherical mass in the universe. Therefore, the spheres do not physically exist.
This is a Cognitive Sculpture that appears only in the human world of perception. The materials are light and the environment. And the subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception.The spheres cannot exist on their own - its existence is a phenomenon created in relation to its environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world.
The artwork explores the possibility of a new form of existence distinct from material existence, and questions the very nature of existence.

Massless Sun and Surface of the Sky

We do not perceive the world we see, we see the world we perceive.
A sphere of light, there is no material, such as glass, on the surface of this sphere; the sphere is made only of light. There is no material surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary with your body is ambiguous. Likewise, there is no material surface boundary in the window opening.  In reality, light cannot solidify into a spherical mass in the universe. Therefore, this sphere does not physically exist.
This is a Cognitive Sculpture that appears only in the human world of perception. The materials are light and the environment. And the subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception.The sphere cannot exist on its own - its existence is a phenomenon created in relation to its environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world.
The artwork explores the possibility of a new form of existence distinct from material existences, and questions the very nature of existence.

About teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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Biographical Documents

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.

About the Exhibition

This exhibition explores how the two most powerful and enduring phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity and belief throughout human history and across different cultures.
Occupying two floors of the Gallery and spanning nine major exhibition spaces, the show presents artworks, installations, and objects that reveal how artists have responded to the Sun and the Moon.

The exhibition unfolds as a journey through a complete 24-hour cycle, moving from dawn through daylight and then into the depths of the night.
The exhibition begins with a prologue featuring works by artists including Barbara Hepworth, and continues through Setting Sun, where works by artists such as Peter Doig are presented. Evening features works by artists including Dora Maar, and Midnight, showcasing works by artists such as Joan Miró and Paula Rego. teamLab will exhibit Massless Suns and Dark Suns and Massless Sun and Surface of the Sky in the Darkest Hours, the final chapter of the exhibition.

Featured Artists:
Joan Miró, Peter Doig, Paula Rego, Barbara Hepworth, Dora Maar, Joseph Wright of Derby, Paul Nash, Patrick Caulfield, Otto Piene, Nancy Holt, Jim Lambie, Christopher Le Brun