Watch: 6,000 drones, star power light up Abu Dhabi’s dazzling new landmark

Abu Dhabi: Saadiyat Cultural District lit up with a constellation of global stars gathered for the opening of teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi, the emirate's newest cultural landmark where art, technology and imagination meet in extraordinary ways.

VIP guests were treated to a live performance by world-renowned Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi, whose captivating melodies set the tone for an evening of wonder.

The celebration was made even more sensational with a striking display of 6,000 synchronised drones and pyrotechnics – acting as a prelude for what was to come: a night filled with colour, excitement and thrill.

Stars on Abu Dhabi

Among the guests of honour were Hollywood celebrities Cate Blanchett, Brendan Fraser and Andrew Garfield, Marvel star Pom Klementieff and DC Comics Grant Gustin, Stranger Things' Natalia Dyer, music icon Swizz Beatz, spiritual leader Sadhguru and experimental music producer Flying Lotus.

The renowned personalities joined creatives, leaders and visionaries from around the world to mark the launch of teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi.

Immersive art

Visitors are invited to discover the ever-changing, immersive artworks that respond to their movement and presence, inviting them to explore, connect and create while ensuring that no two visits are the same.

teamLab phenomena Abu Dhabi

Located in the Saadiyat Cultural District, home to Louvre Abu Dhabi and other world-class institutions, the opening of teamLab phenomena Abu Dhabi further strengthens Abu Dhabi's position as a leading destination for arts and culture.

The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) drives the sustainable growth of Abu Dhabi's culture and tourism sectors and its creative industries, fuelling economic progress and helping to achieve Abu Dhabi's wider global ambitions.

DCT Abu Dhabi works in partnership with the organisations that define the emirate's position as a leading international destination.

teamLab is an international art collective: collaborations seek to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world.

Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

Transcending boundaries

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab, however, seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time.

Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab's works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.