Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) is a Japanese artist whose work explores repetition, obsession, infinity and the dissolution of the individual within space. Through painting, sculpture, installation, performance and immersive environments, she has developed a distinctive visual language based on polka dots, mirrored surfaces and recurring organic forms.
This section explores Kusama’s artworks, exhibitions and cultural influence, from her experimental activity in 1960s New York to the global success of her Infinity Mirror Rooms. It also examines the relationship between personal experience, mental health, spectacle and the contemporary art market.
Yayoi Kusama A critical guide to the 15 contemporary art exhibitions worth seeing across Europe in autumn 2026, spanning Venice, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Turin, Madrid, Bilbao and Munich.
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Yayoi Kusama, Portrait Yayoi-chan, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 145.5 x 112 cm. Six days after Yayoi Kusama’s death was announced, her tearful self-portrait became the emotional centre of Ota Fine Arts’ presentation at Frieze Seoul. The painting had been selected earlier, but the gaze surrounding it had irrevocably changed.
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Installation view, L’Art Brut de Jean Dubuffet, aux origines de la collection, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne. Courtesy of Collection de l’Art Brut. Modern art searched hospitals, streets and social margins for images the academy could no longer create. Art Brut reveals who still has the power to name the outsider.
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Edgard de Souza - Untitled A Transformative Journey through Art and Nature at Inhotim Walking through Inhotim, the extensive open-air art museum nestled within the
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An Exploration of Balance, Color, and Contemplation in Modern Art In the realm of contemporary art, painting remains a potent
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Breaking Barriers and Shaping the Future Women have always played a crucial role in the development of art. Yet their
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Yayoi Kusama (portrait) Yayoi Kusama turned repetition into an image of survival, disappearance and global spectacle. Yayoi Kusama is often reduced to polka
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Soft Sculpture Soft Sculpture: When Sculpture Stopped Pretending to Be Hard Soft sculpture did not simply replace stone with fabric. It made
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Bruce Nauman - Double Poke in the Eye II Installation art begins where the frame can no longer contain the work. Installation art is not simply sculpture placed in
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Yayoi Kusama - The Obliteration Room Maximalism in art is not clutter. It is excess turned into structure, memory, power and visual pressure. Maximalism in art
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