teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi

Construction Completion 2024Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi

teamLab Phenomena
The artworks in teamLab Phenomena do not exist independently, but are created by the environment which produces the various phenomena.

Objects like stones and man-made creations maintain a stable structure on their own. Unlike these, the existence of the artworks in teamLab Phenomena are dependent on their environment.

The environment produces phenomena and stabilizes their structure - these stabilized phenomena are what create the existence of the artworks.

Environmental phenomena are released from the material substances that have been responsible for maintaining structures of existence. Elements like air, water, and light that permeate our daily lives are transformed by their environment into unique phenomena that become works of art. The boundaries of their existence are ambiguous and continuous. Even if people destroy the work, the work will remain in existence as long as its environment is maintained. On the contrary, the work will disappear if the environment is not maintained.

In time, people's consciousness will expand from existence itself to the environment.

A stone can continue to exist in a closed box, sealed off from the outside world, but life cannot sustain its existence in such a box because it is created by its environment.

Life is a miraculous phenomenon that emerges from a flow in a continuous world.

ARCHITECTURE

teamLab Phenomena Architecture

As part of teamLab’s new concept of Environmental Phenomena, the architecture for teamLab Phenomena has been designed both from the inside out and the outside in, creating a structure that wraps around experience as opposed to forcibly compressing it inside.

In designing the architecture, we focused primarily on incorporating the characteristics of a life form; to create an organic shape.
We are interested in what ‘internal’ and ‘external’ mean in relation to living beings. With humans, for example, the external skin and internal organs, such as the inner lining of the stomach, are connected. There is no clear boundary between them, and they form one architectural skin. Each organ can be thought of as a particular environment that creates unique phenomena.
We aimed to create an architecture in which both the internal and external are covered and connected by an organic architectural skin. Like the relationship between skin and stomach, there is no boundary between them.
This organically-shaped architecture is similar to a living being created by lining up and connecting internal organs, and covering it with an exterior skin.
The exterior does not possess a symbolic nature, and is something indefinite or nebulous, like a cloud. This creates an architecture whose indefinite internal and external form is connected by the architectural skin.

We believe that an organic form without a distinguishable outline, like a cloud, makes it difficult to grasp the perspective and can remove awareness towards the scale of the architecture. By being liberated from the sense of scale, the architecture is released from becoming a symbol in the architectural sense, thus shifting one’s awareness from symbolism to individual experiences. When people look at the indefinite, organic architecture from outside, and enter the building from its mouth-like entrance as though wandering through its organs, we aim to create an experience akin to wandering through a forest, unsure whether they are in the forest in its entirety or merely a part of it, and unable to to grasp the scale of the space to begin with. In this way, we hope that each visitor’s experience itself will become a symbolic architecture that exists only within the viewer.

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teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi

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Construction Completion 2024

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teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi
Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi

ARTIEST

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 exhibitions have been held in cities worldwide, including New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Beijing, and Melbourne among others. teamLab museums and large-scale permanent exhibitions include teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets in Tokyo, teamLab Borderless Shanghai, and teamLab SuperNature Macao, with more to open in cities including Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Hamburg, Jeddah, and Utrecht.

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

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

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Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi and Miral