teamLab Borderless Jeddah opens this June and tickets are now on sale
There will be a lot to see…
It’s confirmed. Get ready to step into a world of wonders when teamLab Borderless Jeddah opens on Monday June 10.
Spanning approximately 10,000 square metres, teamLab Borderless Jeddah, the first-ever teamLab Borderless museum to launch in the Middle East, will be permanently established on the shores of Alarbaeen Lagoon, overlooking the panoramic views of Jeddah Historic District, a Unesco World Heritage Site.
And good news, tickets for the museum are now available on the official website.
Here’s everything you need to know about the all-new teamLab Borderless digital art museum in Jeddah.
What is teamLab Borderless?
teamLab Borderless is a world of artworks without boundaries, a museum without a map created by art collective teamLab. Artworks move out of rooms, communicate with other works, influence, and sometimes intermingle with each other with no boundaries, forming one borderless world. As visitors immerse their body in this borderless art, they are encouraged to wander, explore, and discover by following their curiosities.
How can we get tickets?
The tickets for the museum are now available on the official website. There are three types of tickets available. The single pass is priced at SAR50 for children between four and 12, SAR115 for those aged 13 to 17, and SAR150 for adults.
The family / group pass is priced at SAR450 for two adults and two kids, SAR500 for two adults and three kids, and SAR550 for two adults and four kids.
Feeling extra fancy? Get the treatment you deserve with its VIP pass package. Priced at SAR8,000, the package includes admission for eight adults, complete with premium perks, complimentary merchandises, front of the line access and your own VIP host.
What can we expect inside the teamLab Borderless Jeddah?
In short, sensory overload. The immense teamLab Borderless Jeddah will comprise the Borderless World, Light Sculpture, Athletics Forest, Future Park, Forest of Lamps, En Tea House, as well as Sketch Factory, exhibiting some 80 independent yet intricately interrelated works.
Borderless World
Persistence of Life in the Sandfall (Jeddah-exclusive artwork) © teamLab
People understand and recognise the world through their bodies, moving freely and forming connections and relationships with others. The body has its own sense of time, and in the mind, boundaries between different thoughts are ambiguous, causing them to influence and, at times, intermingle with each other. The artworks, too, move out of the rooms freely, form connections and relationships with people, and possess the same concept of time as the human body. They communicate with other works, influence each other, and, at times, intermingle. teamLab Borderless is one continuous world without boundaries, created by such a group of artworks. People wander through the world, exploring with intention, creating and discovering a new world with others.
Light Sculpture
Cosmic Consciousness © teamLab
In the Light Sculpture series, massive sculptures in which light appears to flow out are born, sweeping towards people, expanding, and drawing people into it.
Athletics Forest
teamLab, Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds © teamLab
teamLab Athletics Forest is a creative, athletic space based on the concept of understanding the world through the body and thinking about the world three-dimensionally. It trains spatial recognition and promotes the growth of the hippocampus of the brain. People immerse their entire body in the complex and physically challenging three-dimensional space of the interactive world.
Future Park
teamLab, Connecting! Block Town © teamLab
teamLab Future Park is an educational project based on collaborative creation (co-creation). It is an amusement park where people can enjoy creating the world freely with others. An artwork comes to life when people create something together. As people continue to co-create, the artwork evolves endlessly.
Forest of Lamps
teamLab, Forest of Resonating Lamps – One Stroke, Fire © teamLab
This artwork, in which lamps are seemingly scattered in a random manner, is composed of resonating light that changes based on the relationship between the people in the artwork space. It is a work that expresses the beauty of continuity. The colours of lamps change according to the season.
When a person stands still close to a lamp, it shines brightly and emits a sound. The light spreads to the two closest lamps, which similarly emit a sound, spreading their light to the lamps nearest to them. The light, now divided into two, will pass through all of the lamps in the room once, creating a single trajectory of light. The light created by your presence and the light created by the presence of others will always intersect.
En Tea House
teamLab, Flowers Bloom in an Infinite Universe inside a Teacup © teamLab
Even drinking tea can be an art when you are in teamLab Borderless. Here at this tea house, when a cup of tea is made, flowers bloom inside the teacup. Flowers bloom infinitely as long as there is tea. When the teacup is lifted, the flower petals scatter and spread outside the cup. The artwork is created when there is tea in the cup; when the tea is gone, the artwork disappears with it. Tea is a transformative entity, and the amount of tea in the cup will change the size of the tea’s surface. Accordingly, the size of the flower will also change. If tea is spilt from the cup, flowers will also bloom in the spilt liquid.
Sketch Factory
Sketch Factory © teamLab
Turn your own drawing into an item to take home with you. This is a factory where the fish you draw in Sketch Ocean are turned into an original product, such as a tin badge, hand towel, T-shirt, or tote bag.
teamLab Borderless Jeddah – Toshiyuki Inoko & Abdulrahman Almotawa
Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of teamLab, said, “Jeddah is one of the leading global cities in the Middle East with a profound history and rich culture. This time, we have been able to launch teamLab Borderless on a monumental scale, with truly beautiful architecture in this wonderful location.”
Abdulrahman Almotawa, official spokesperson of the Ministry of Culture, commented, “We are immensely proud to open the teamLab Borderless museum in the heart of Jeddah Historic District. This first-of-its-kind venture, realised in collaboration with teamLab, is part of a new chapter for Saudi Arabia’s cultural landscape. We are grateful to teamLab for sharing in the Ministry of Culture’s dedication to fostering innovative artistic expressions that resonate both locally and globally.”
teamLab Borderless Jeddah is unlike any museum you’ve ever seen – a revolutionary space where the boundaries between art, technology, and our natural world converge, offering a truly immersive experience. You’ll definitely want to add it to your Jeddah must-see list when it opens this summer.
teamLab Borderless Jeddah, Opens June 10, Sat to Wed 1pm to 11pm, Thurs & Fri 3pm to 2am, Culture Square, Jeddah Historic District, Jeddah. Ticket starts from SAR50 and can be purchased here.
Visit: teamLab.art
Images: Supplied / teamLab Borderless Jeddah © teamLab