teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi | teamLab

Construction Completion 2024Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi

Artworks exist as phenomena that are born from the environment. Immerse yourself in the collective existence of the artworks and become one with the environment.
The artworks in teamLab Phenomena do not exist independently, but are created by the environment which produces the various phenomena that cause the artworks to exist.

Up until now, things that humans have created have existed through matter, just like a rock, and have a stable structure in and of themselves. Unlike such things, the existence of the artworks in teamLab Phenomena are created by the environment.

The environment produces the phenomena, and the environment maintains the existence of the structure. Let us call that existence environmental phenomena.

Existence will be freed from matter that has previously been responsible for its existence. Elements like air, water, and light that permeate our daily lives are transformed by their environment into unique phenomena that will become the existence. The boundaries of that existence are ambiguous and continuous. Even if people break the artwork apart, the work will remain in existence as long as its environment is maintained. Conversely, if the environment is not maintained, the work will disappear. Perhaps, people's consciousness will spread from existence itself to the environment.

A rock will continue to exist even if it is placed in a sealed box isolated from the outside world, but life cannot maintain its existence if it is placed in such a closed box. Life is also an existence that is maintained by the environment.

Life may be a miraculous phenomenon that emerges from a flow in an open and 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’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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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