teamLab Biovortex Kyoto: 50 Dazzling Interactive Artworks

teamLab Biovortex Kyoto: A Fully Immersive Interactive Art Experience

teamLab "Solidified Sea of ​​Light" © teamLab

teamLab’s new permanent museum, teamLab BioVortex Kyoto, opens October 7, 2025, near Kyoto Station.

Spanning roughly 10,000 square meters, the museum houses more than 50 works — immersive digital installations, participatory educational projects, and large-scale sculptural experiences.

Highlights of teamLab Biovortex Kyoto

Below, we introduce some of the installations that shouldn't be missed at teamLab Biovortex Kyoto.

Massless Amorphous Sculpture

Massless Amorphous Sculpture ©teamLab

One of the art installations on display at teamLab Biovortex Kyoto is titled Massless Amorphous Sculpture and envisions floating bubbles in space as sculptures hovering in the air.

Visitors can immerse themselves and experience blurred outlines, fragments, or merging and enlarging sculptures.

These ocean-like clusters of bubbles continuously change shape; although they may collide with the body, they will never be completely destroyed. Their existence is maintained, repaired, and gradually transformed.

Morphing Continuum

Morphing Continuum at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto envisions a living, airborne sculpture made of countless glowing spheres that float and gather like clouds of bubbles.

Visitors can step in and among these ocean-like clusters to watch outlines blur, fragments drift apart, and forms merge or swell; although the spheres may brush against or seem to break around the body, the structure never vanishes.

Instead it repairs and reconfigures itself, continuously shifting in response to light, sound, and human presence. The work presents a suspended, self-sustaining existence — a “High Order Sculpture” born from the environment’s phenomena — inviting viewers to experience a form that is both fragile and enduring, always in the process of becoming.

Massless Suns and Dark Suns

Massless Suns and Dark Suns at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto imagines countless orbs of light and pockets of darkness as sculptural bodies that hover in space.

Visitors encounter glowing spheres that read like solid masses of light yet have no material surface, so the line between artwork and body feels uncertain. As you take in the scene, deeper purple‑blue spheres of darkness appear beside the lights, giving the impression that absence has been formed into shape.

These suns only exist through the surrounding conditions and the act of seeing, prompting visitors to reconsider how phenomena, perception, and environment together produce what we call existence.

Megaliths

teamLab "Megalith" © teamLab

Megaliths at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto reimagines monumental stone as living light. Visitors move among these towering volumes and feel their scale and presence, yet the monoliths are not fixed rock but luminous constructions whose surfaces shift with color and motion.

By translating the weight and history of megalithic structures into responsive, changing light, the installation evokes both the endurance of monumental architecture and the ephemeral, interactive nature of contemporary perception.

Resonating Microcosms — Solidified Light Color

teamLab "Resonating Microcosm - Solidified Colors of Light" © teamLab

Resonating Microcosms — Solidified Light Color at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto imagines clusters of ovoid lights as tiny, responsive universes where color behaves like a material.

Visitors can approach and gently touch an ovoid to see it flare with one of 32 specially defined “Solidified Light Colors,” each pulse accompanied by a resonant tone that ripples through neighboring forms.

As people move or stand still, the microcosm shifts between lively resonance and quiet reflection, continuously repairing and reconfiguring itself; through this interplay, visitors and surroundings become part of the work’s ever-changing world.

Traces of Life

teamLab "Traces of Life" © teamLab

Traces of Life at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto turns visitors’ steps and movements into living traces across the floor: as people walk, glowing footprints and trajectories appear, merge, and stretch like currents in an ocean, forming long, connected patterns that gradually fade.

The space becomes a shared, collective organism that exists only through human presence, inviting everyone to witness how individual actions combine into a single, evolving existence.

Continuous Life and Death

teamLab "Continuum of Life and Death" © teamLab

Continuous Life and Death presents a choreography of blossoms that endlessly bloom, wither, and reemerge across the floor and walls.

Visitors shape this living cycle: standing still invites new flowers to grow around them, while touching a bloom makes its petals scatter and the local scene dissolve, only to be reborn elsewhere as time flows on.

The installation makes time itself visible—flowers shift location and pattern in a continual temporal dance—so that life and death are experienced not as endpoints but as an ongoing, participatory process in which each person’s presence both alters and sustains the world of the work.

Bird's Path

teamLab "Bird's Path" © teamLab

Bird's Path transforms the movement of countless birds into a single, living body of light that flows through the air like a vast, breathing sky.

By presenting a spatiotemporal existence that is recognized as one entity despite constant change, the work invites viewers to experience a mode of being beyond fixed matter—an emergent life formed through order, movement, and the shared presence of people and environment.

The Eternal Universe of Words

teamLab "The Eternal Universe of Words" © teamLab

The Eternal Universe of Words at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto invites visitors to lie down or sit and enter a relaxed, meditative space where calligraphy unfolds as an endless, living field.

What makes the work special is its blend of ancient script and contemporary audiovisual design: writing becomes a spatial, temporal event that can be felt in the body, and language itself is presented as an eternal, collective phenomenon that both soothes and awakens attention.

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well

teamLab "Crows being chased, and the chasing crows are also chased" © teamLab

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well transforms the room into a dissolving boundary where walls, floor, and the real world blur into a single luminous field.

From a spot near the entrance, visitors can watch mythic crow-forms (Yatagarasu) sweep through space, leaving calligraphic trails that rise into three-dimensional patterns and gradually immerse the viewer in the artwork.

Nirvana: Fleeting Flower Shimmering Light

teamLab's "Nirvana: Fleeting Flower Shimmering Light" © teamLab

Nirvana: Fleeting Flower Shimmering Light unfolds a delicate choreography of blossoms that live, wither, and disperse within an ever‑continuing field of life.

Inspired by the densely patterned color grids of Kyoto painter Itō Jakuchū, the work splits color across different spatial and temporal axes. A faint sparkle bridges the viewer’s own movement and the piece’s rhythms, creating three overlapping space‑times in which life, death, and the viewer’s presence are inseparable.

Infinite Crystal World

teamLab's "Infinite Crystal World" ©teamLab

Infinite Crystal World at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto transforms countless points of light into an endlessly expanding three-dimensional sculpture that feels at once delicate and vast.

Like pointillist dots turned into luminous matter, these light points gather into whirlpool-like structures whose continuity persists even as visitors move through them.

Using smartphones, visitors can introduce new elements that are reborn in three dimensions, and those additions interact with existing forms and with other visitors’ contributions, so the installation continually reshapes itself.

Living Crystallized Light

teamLab "Life is Crystallized, Moving Light" © teamLab

Living Crystallized Light resembles an organic creature sculpted from shimmering, crystallized illumination: it pulses with iridescent light from its core as it drifts, continuously merging and dividing like a living organism.

Visitors can step into and touch the work—only to discover that the visible form is sustained by ordinary water and the surrounding conditions rather than by an independent substance.

The piece also shifts depending on vantage point: where and how the light appears is unique to each viewer, so different observers perceive different colors, positions, and patterns.

Cognitive Solidified Spark

teamLab "The Spark Within Us" © teamLab

Cognitive Solidified Spark appears as a glowing sphere assembled from countless fine rays of light. Visitors find the boundary between body and artwork ambiguous.

The undulating rays invite questions: why do these lines move, and what does it mean to see them? A

s viewers recognize and engage with the sphere, their own perception expands, suggesting that the way we perceive this work can reshape how we perceive the world beyond the gallery.

Resonating Lamp Forest: One Stroke — a Year in the Mountains

Forest of Resonating Lamps: One Stroke — a Year in the Mountains arranges countless lamp-like lights into a seemingly random grove that is actually mathematically connected.

As people move through the space, lamps nearest to them glow and the light propagates, linking to the next lamp and intersecting with light generated by others, producing continuous strokes of illumination across the forest.

The work draws on traditional Japanese notions of layered color and seasonal nuance—Kasane no Irome—while exploring the beauty of continuity itself: light is born from human presence, travels in unbroken lines, and weaves individual actions into a single, flowing year in the mountains.

Athletics Forest

Athletics Forest at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto is a high‑dimensional movement space where visitors perceive the world with their bodies and learn to think three‑dimensionally through play.

The complex, multi‑level environment invites vigorous physical engagement—climbing, balancing, crawling, and navigating—so that bodily action becomes the primary way to experience shifting spatial and temporal relationships.

Learn! Future Playground

Learn! Future Playground at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto is an open, collaborative education space where visitors freely create worlds together and learn through shared making.

Rather than presenting finished artworks, the playground becomes an ever‑evolving canvas: when people draw, build, or interact with one another, their contributions combine into collective pieces that grow, shift, and produce new possibilities.

Sketch Factory

teamLab "Sketch Factory" © teamLab

Sketch Factory at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto is a hands‑on production space where visitors’ drawings from Graffiti Nature and Sketch Ocean are transformed into real souvenirs.

Guests can choose to have their designs manufactured on items like badges, magnets, puzzles, hand towels, T‑shirts, tote bags, and paper crafts.

The factory turns playful imagination into tangible keepsakes, letting each person take home a personalized reminder of their creative contribution to the museum’s ever‑changing world.

Tickets: Prices, Same-Day Tickets, Date/Time Changes, and Cancellations

There are two types of tickets: the Entrance Pass, which has a specified entry time, and the Flexible Pass, which has no time specification.

Entrance Pass Prices: Evening Tickets Are Cheaper

The price for the Entrance Pass, which has a specified entry time, is a variable pricing system (dynamic pricing) that differs depending on the date and time.

Prices tend to be set lower as the closing time approaches.

- Price 1: Adult 4,400 yen, 4,200 yen, 4,000 yen, 3,800 yen, 3,600 yen / Junior & Senior High School Students 2,800 yen / Children (4–12 years) 1,800 yen
- Price 2: Adult 4,800 yen, 4,600 yen, 4,400 yen, 4,200 yen, 4,000 yen / Junior & Senior High School Students 2,800 yen / Children (4–12 years) 1,800 yen
- Price 3: Adult 5,000 yen, 4,800 yen, 4,600 yen, 4,400 yen, 4,200 yen / Junior & Senior High School Students 2,800 yen / Children (4–12 years) 1,800 yen

Flexible Pass Prices: Flat Rate for Adults and Children

The price for the "Flexible Pass," which has no time specification, is a flat rate of 12,000 yen for both adults and children.

Same-Day Tickets

You can purchase same-day tickets on the official website or on site only if tickets have not sold out.

However, please note that on-site prices may differ from online prices and tickets are more likely to sell out.

Date/Time Changes and Cancellations for Tickets

- Cancellation: Ticket cancellations are not allowed.
- Date/Time Changes: For tickets purchased on the official website only, date/time changes are allowed up to 3 times. Please check the official website for details.

Opening Hours: Enjoy from Morning to Night!

The standard opening hours for "teamLab BioVortex Kyoto" are 9:00 to 21:00. Last admission is 19:30.

However, there may be closed days or changes to opening hours, so please confirm on the official website.

Access: About 7 Minutes from the Kyoto Station

- About a 7-minute walk from JR Kyoto Station's Hachijo East Exit
- About an 11-minute walk from Shichijo Station (Keihan Line)
- Address: 21-5 Higashiiwamotocho, Higashi-kujo Higashi, Minami ward, Kyoto

Visit teaLab Biovortex Kyoto

With more than 50 interactive works spread across an expansive space, this playground for art lovers is a must‑see when you visit Kyoto.

Reserve your tickets now and enjoy your time at teamLab BioVortex Kyoto.

The museum is located between Hachijo Street and Kujo Street in Kyoto, west of the Kamo River and east of Takeda Street, as part of the Kyoto Station Southeast Area Development Plan.

teamLab Biovortex Kyoto
Official Website: https://www.teamlab.art/e/kyoto/

Main picture: Morphing Continuum ©teamLab
Information and photo source: PR TIMES