teamLab Borderless closed in Odaiba and reopened in Azabudai

teamLab's own press and exhibition pages date the 2018 Tokyo opening, 2022 closure and 2024 move, but not a projector or computer count.

Historical event

February 9, 2024

First source published

June 20, 2018

Site publication

September 18, 2026

What the record dates

The collective's own press page states that its Odaiba, Tokyo venue — produced with Mori Building — "launched on June 21, 2018" and "ran until August 31, 2022, when it ended," in the Business Wire release teamLab syndicates on its own site. A separate current listing on teamLab's exhibitions page gives the replacement venue at Azabudai Hills as running "Feb 09, 2024 – Permanent." Read together, the two pages date three facts: an opening, a closure, and a reopening at a new address under the same name, each stated by the operator rather than reconstructed from secondary reporting.

What creates the image

teamLab describes Borderless as "a world of artworks without boundaries, a museum without a map," in which the exhibition's own page says "artworks move out of rooms, relate to other works, influence each other, and at times intermingle, without boundaries." The mechanism is video projection mapped across walls, floors and connecting corridors, driven by software rather than fixed film, so a single image can appear to travel from one room's surfaces into the next. The exhibitions listing describes one work, Sketch Ocean, where visitors colour a fish that then "comes to life" and swims inside a shared projected sea — a documented example of the space responding to what visitors bring into it. Viewing needs a darkened room, since projected light competes with ambient light; there are no fixed seats, no glasses and no head tracking, and the image is shared identically by everyone present rather than keyed to one viewer's position.

What is and is not documented

Neither page states a projector count, a computer count, or a total floor area for the current Azabudai galleries — figures sometimes quoted for the venue elsewhere are not confirmed on the pages this entry opened. The same listing also shows "teamLab Borderless" now operating simultaneously under one name in Jeddah and, as announced, Hamburg, alongside standalone teamLab museums in several other cities. That makes Borderless a licensed exhibition brand rather than a single fixed installation, an editorial distinction worth stating plainly: a visitor comparing photographs from two cities may be comparing different rooms, different projector counts and possibly different software builds under an identical name.

• How many projectors and computers currently run the Azabudai galleries specifically, as opposed to the brand generally?
• Do interactive works like Sketch Ocean behave identically across every city carrying the Borderless name?
• What happens to a room's imagery if the real-time rendering or tracking system fails mid-visit?

The dates are solid, operator-stated facts; the technology behind them is described only in kind, not in quantity, on the pages available for this entry.

Sources & reading trail

States the Odaiba venue's 21 June 2018 opening and 31 August 2022 closure.

Source published: 20 June 2018 · Retrieved: 16 September 2026

Describes the Azabudai venue's concept of artworks moving between rooms without boundaries and names individual works.

Source published: Not established · Retrieved: 16 September 2026

Confirms the Azabudai Hills venue opened 9 February 2024 on a permanent basis and describes the interactive Sketch Ocean work.

Source published: Not established · Retrieved: 16 September 2026

Primary documents establish the record; the mechanism reading and the demo questions are Presence Atlas editorial analysis. This retrospective draft does not imply the site published on the event date.

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Published September 18, 2026, not on the date of the event described.