Art that floats. Sculptures that respond to your presence. Light that only exists when you perceive it.

Opening in Fall 2025, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto is the latest project by the globally renowned art collective teamLab, and it’s poised to transform how we experience space, matter, and art itself. Located in Minami-ku, Kyoto—just southeast of Kyoto Station—this permanent museum is being developed as part of a larger cultural hub that aims to revitalize the area through creativity, innovation, and collaboration.

This new venue goes beyond traditional digital art. Visitors will walk through environments that blur the lines between the physical and the perceptual. Some installations will react to the viewer’s touch or movement. Others will form from phenomena like bubbles and wind. Together, they create a museum where the artworks are in constant flux—shaped by the space, by energy, and by you.

The full list of installations will be revealed closer to the opening, but teamLab has previewed several new, never-before-seen artworks created especially for the Kyoto space. These works explore the concepts of “masslessness,” “cognitive sculpture,” and “high-order sculpture,” presenting environments that challenge our basic understanding of material and form. We will continue to update this article as more information is released ahead of the opening, so be sure to bookmark it and check back regularly!

Here’s a look at four of the major works you can expect to encounter.

This monumental sculpture drifts in midair above a floor covered in bubbles. It doesn’t sit on the ground or float to the ceiling—it hovers weightlessly, sustained not by physical support but by the order of energy within the space. Its shape continuously changes, fragmenting and reforming, depending on the environment around it.

You can’t push it or move it, but if you break it, it heals—unless broken beyond repair. The piece does not behave like a stone or an object with mass. Instead, it behaves like a vortex in water: inseparable from its environment and constantly evolving with it.

teamLab calls this a High Order Sculpture, a new category of art that exists not through matter, but through conditions. It’s a form born not from substance, but from relationships between energy, space, and people.

In this space, visitors encounter a constellation of luminous spheres that light up when touched. Each action triggers a ripple of brightness across nearby spheres, creating a collective, interactive lightscape.

But a closer look reveals something stranger: some spheres appear to be pure darkness, as if darkness itself has been made solid. These can’t be captured by cameras and have no material surface. In fact, neither light nor dark spheres technically exist in the physical sense.

These are Cognitive Sculptures—artworks that exist only in perception. Their form arises from the interplay between body, light, environment, and awareness. If you don’t perceive them, they don’t exist. But once you do, they become real—at least to you.

In this installation, sculptural forms exist in constant transformation. Their visible structure may shift dramatically—changing size, shape, or even replacing their elements entirely—but their core identity remains.

These forms are spatial phenomena held together not by mass, but by pattern. They live midair, glowing and pulsing in response to the room’s atmosphere and the presence of people. As with the Massless Amorphous Sculpture, these too are High Order Sculptures, created by energy flows and shaped by the environment.

Even when fully immersed, visitors don’t interrupt the form’s existence. If disrupted, it naturally reconstitutes. It exists not as a static object, but as a dynamic system that includes you.

This work begins when you enter. As you walk through the space, glowing trails form beneath your feet, marking your presence. These lines remain for a while before gradually fading, building a collective memory of everyone who has passed through.

Without people, the artwork is dormant. With people, it becomes animated. Here, the art isn’t just reactive—it’s co-created in real time. You don’t merely observe Traces of Life; you leave your imprint on it.

teamLab Biovortex Kyoto isn’t just a new attraction—it’s a shift in how we experience art, space, and ourselves. By using light, movement, perception, and natural phenomena as materials, the museum offers an entirely new kind of engagement—where visitors are part of the artwork, and where the works themselves can only exist in real time.

As Kyoto continues to evolve as a modern cultural hub, this museum signals a bold step forward—bridging the city’s historic legacy with teamLab’s futuristic vision.

Whether you’re an art enthusiast or just curious about the edge of what’s possible, teamLab Biovortex Kyoto will be a must-see destination in 2025.