After being in lockdown for months, we are all in dire need to experience something that can truly stimulate our senses. And it seems like our thoughts have been heard, as award-winning Tokyo based art collective teamLab is bringing its popular light installations to the Netherlands in Europe. By Amitha Ameen
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You may have seen thousands of photos of people in really cool-looking rooms filled with giant light bulbs and other-worldly projections flooding your Instagram feed a while ago. If you did not already know, it is the work of award-winning Tokyo based teamLab, known for their multi-sensory exhibitions that have been attracting crowds to their sold-out shows all across the globe from Shanghai to San Francisco.
The shows are usually over-the-top — full of sound, light and other digital projections and virtual reality-based experiences, and of course, they make for really intriguing, conversation-starting photos for the ‘gram. Perhaps the most famous of their shows, and the one that almost broke the internet, was ‘Crystal Universe’, an immersive light show that featured 50,000 LED lights that created a celestial projection for people to walk through.
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Now, the world-famous international art group is bringing their surreal art installations to a more permanent exhibition in Utrecht, Netherlands. teamLab’s first permanent base in Europe will be in the city’s new digital art venue called Nowhere, in Utrecht’s famous green urban development project called Wonderwoods. Along with this space, teamLab’s will now have a total of three permanent bases including the ones in Tokyo and Shanghai.
The new space which is set to open in 2024 will include art from the members as well as feature an education amusement park called ‘Future Park’ that promotes creative thinking, and an ‘Athletic Forest’ that provides visitors with a space to kindle their brains.
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