Where art has no borders
Despite teamLab’s unconventional hierarchy, it built hugely popular cultural destinations. IQ asks Takashi Kudo how.
Feature By James Drury | 11 May 2026
The numbers around teamLab are striking. teamLab Planets TOKYO in Toyosu welcomed 2.5m visitors between April 2023 and March 2024 alone – enough to earn a Guinness World Record as the most visited museum by a single art group in the world.
teamLab Borderless: MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM in Tokyo, which reopened in February 2024, was named one of TIME Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places of 2024.
And teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, which opened in the Saadiyat Cultural District in April 2025, is…
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