teamLab Announces Solo Exhibition 'teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity' at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

teamLab will host a solo exhibition, 'teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity,' at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Illinois. The exhibition will run from Tuesday, September 22, 2026, through Sunday, February 21, 2027.

Organized by Vanja V. Malloy, Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum, and curator Allison Martino, this exhibition celebrates teamLab’s creative practice at the intersection of art and science.

## About the Exhibition

Building upon historical logical structures of spatial perception, teamLab continues to expand the possibilities in this new era of 21st-century technology through its long-standing creative practice.

Exploring the collective's work since its inception in 2001, the exhibition focuses on teamLab's adoption of technology from its early days and its wide-ranging experiments in art created through digital technology. From early monitor-based works to immersive and interactive installations, and new works that further extend their approach to perception, the exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary collaboration within the art collective, which includes artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects. In addition to several new works, teamLab’s 'Massless Suns and Dark Suns' will be presented in North America for the first time.

## Messages

Vanja V. Malloy, Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: "For many years, teamLab has been at the forefront of integrating technology into artistic practice, creating immersive environments that place the human experience at their core. Their works encourage visitors to contemplate perception while emphasizing the 'interconnectivity' we share with others and the world. teamLab's installations bring to reality the immersive artistic ideals that creators a century ago could only imagine."

teamLab Representative Toshiyuki Inoko: "We are honored to exhibit at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. What is existence? It does not exist as an object unto itself but arises within an environment and is shaped by perception. We are not looking at the world from the outside; we are within a continuum, and we recognize our existence within it. Everything exists in infinite continuity."

The University of Chicago has had teamLab’s 'Proliferating Life' on permanent display since 2021.

## Publication and Research

In line with the Smart Museum’s commitment to interdisciplinary exploration of art, science, and technology, an exhibition catalog will be published. This volume includes contributions from international scholars across various research fields. It contextualizes teamLab’s work through essays by Laura Lee, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, and Barbara London, founder and curator of the video/media art department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. It also features an interview with Mariana Babo-Rebelo, a cognitive neuroscientist at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute, and teamLab representative Toshiyuki Inoko. Additionally, it includes the first English translations of essays by Shin-ichi Fukuoka, a biologist and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, and Tadahito Tsutsui, an art historian and associate professor at Kyoto University.

'teamLab: Everything Exists in Infinite Continuity' is co-edited by Vanja V. Malloy and Allison Martino, published by the Smart Museum of Art, and distributed/sold by the University of Chicago Press.

## About the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

The Smart Museum of Art’s mission is to lead integrated research through art and create transformative experiences. It serves as a place for rigorous inquiry and exchange, encouraging the examination of complex issues through the lens of art. Through strong community and academic partnerships, the museum integrates diverse ideas, identities, and experiences into its exhibitions, collections, academic initiatives, and public programs. Admission is always free and open to all.

## Featured Works

* 'Sea of Darkness, Memory Shining from the Depths': Darkness is in the foreground, and light exists in the depths. Substance and perception blur, and material boundaries disappear.
* 'Dissipative Figures - Human': Instead of depicting the human form by its body outline, the work captures the existence of the person through the energy they continuously release into the world and the resulting environmental movement.
* 'Dissipative Figures - Murmuration': Instead of depicting the birds by their individual outlines, the work captures the existence of the flock through the energy the birds continuously release into the world and the resulting environmental movement.
* 'Order in Chaos': Through simple local interactions between color strokes and people, order emerges spontaneously in the midst of disorder.