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Featured on The National News, 2022/05/30

Borderless: what to expect from Jeddah's new digital art museum

On the shores of Al Arbaeen Lagoon, overlooking the Unesco World Heritage listed old town of Jeddah, a new type of museum is taking shape. The first permanent teamLab Borderless museum in the Middle East broke ground last month and the project promises a labyrinthine space of more than 50 artworks across sections that include Borderless World, Athletics Forest and Future Park. It is scheduled to open in 2023, and an exact date will be announced soon.(Excerpt from the text)

Featured on Flash Art, 2022/05/26

A Midsummer Night’s Technodream. A Conversation with Jenna Sutela, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, teamLab, and Marshmallow Laser Feast

In Solaris (1961), Stanisław Lem wrote, “Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.” For the latest edition of “The Uncanny Valley,” four leading artists in the digital art space –– Jenna Sutela, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, teamLab, and Marshmallow Laser Feast –– unseal magical realities in ways that would be inconceivable with traditional media.(Excerpt from the text)

Featured on WIDEWALLS, 2022/05/24

teamLab Will Open the First teamLab Borderless Museum in the Middle East

After numerous exhibitions and works commissioned by major international museums, teamLab will receive another permanent museum of their expansive art. The first teamLab Borderless museum was opened in 2018 in Tokyo, while the new one will be erected in the historic Jeddah site in the Middle East. The official inauguration was recently presented by His Excellency Hamed bin Mohammed Fayez, Vice Minister of Culture of Saudi Arabia, and Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of teamLab.(Excerpt from the text)

Featured on FOOD&WINE, 2022/05/16

Gastronomy and spatial calligraphy

Contrasting conventional ramen savors, Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo delights noodle lovers with unique recipes soaked in vegetables, edible flowers, green tea, and other natural ingredients. Above all, the captivating artwork space features cutting-edge digital art created by teamLab. TeamLab is an international art collective and interdisciplinary group of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects, and other specialists that have been navigating the intersection of art, science, technology, and the natural world through their artworks since 2001. It aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world and new perceptions through art, and transcend boundaries in our perception of the world. One of the ways they do this is by allowing our senses of behavior and movement to interact freely with the world around us through vision, color, light, motion, sound and texture—all within the continuity of time. Dynamic teamLab installations have travelled across the globe to New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Paris, Helsinki, Istanbul, Sydney, Beijing, Singapore and other cities.(Excerpt from the text)

Featured on lonely planet, May 15, 2022

The 7 best museums in Tokyo (that even Tokyoites are waiting in line to visit)

Not even a typhoon could deter the people lining up for one of the first teamLab exhibitions back in August 2016. Since then, the international art collective – composed of various specialists, such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects – has been unstoppable. With its Borderless museum in Venus Fort closing in August 2022, all eyes are on the teamLab Planets museum in Toyosu. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on ARTASIAPACIFIC, 2022/05/06

Weekly News Roundup: May 6, 2022

The hugely popular Japanese digital art collective teamLab, together with the Saudi Ministry of Culture, have laid the groundwork for a massive interactive space in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, which will be the first of its kind in West Asia. The new immersive environment, dubbed teamLab Borderless Jeddah, will be located on the shores of Al-Arbaeen Lagoon, facing the city’s historical quarter, a UNESCO world heritage site. (Excerpt from the text)

Featured on FAST COMPANY, 2022/04/29

Immersive museum teamLab Borderless Jeddah to open in the kingdom

Art collective teamLab, which has set the Guinness World Records for the world’s most visited museum, is coming to Saudi Arabia with the new teamLab Borderless Jeddah. Hamed bin Mohammed Fayez, Vice Minister of Culture, Saudi Arabia, and teamLab founder Toshiyuki Inoko officially inaugurated the site for the first permanent teamLab Borderless museum in the Middle East, which will be created by a team of artists, architects, programmers, and CG animators. (Excerpt from the text)