Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict 2010
Installation view, David Zwirner, New York, 2013.
Courtesy David Zwirner, Photo: Maris Hutchinson
©YAYOI KUSAMA

Title

THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR

Dates

Thursday, July 30, 2020 - Monday, March 29, 2021

All tickets must be purchased in advance online. Entry is timed and only valid for a specific 90 minute time-slot.
Please purchase tickets in advance from here.

Yayoi Kusama began her creative career as an artist by depicting the hallucinations she experienced in her childhood, as a means to overcome her fears. Since then, Kusama has continued to produce works using these visions of her hallucinations and inner world.
On this occasion, Yayoi Kusama Museum presents recent and new works by Yayoi Kusama created over the past ten years with the theme of her diverse visions, consisting only of works that are shown for the first time in Japan or anywhere in the world.
From her latest canvas series, My Eternal Soul, in which she pours the visions overflowing from her inner world, the exhibition showcases the newest of her accomplished one-meter-square paintings. It also includes her latest participatory project, FLOWER OBSESSION, in which her hallucinatory vision is realized through an entire room’s surface covered by flowers, as well as an immersive installation created for this exhibition, Infinity Mirrored Room - A Wish for Human Happiness Calling from Beyond the Universe, which is on view for the very first time.
This exhibition invites you to see the present state of Kusama's visions, which depict her longing for the universe and the unknown, transforming her hallucinations that bring fear into visions that bring ecstasy, as though immersing in the stardust of the infinite universe.

L: THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR 2019
R: Infinity Mirrored Room - My Eternal Soul Sparkles and Blazes Away 2019 *Reference image
©YAYOI KUSAMA

L: FLOWER OBSESSION [Detail] 2017
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, NGV Women’s Association, 2017.
Courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne *Reference image
R: FLOWERS THAT SPEAK ALL ABOUT MY HEART GIVEN TO THE SKY 2018
Photo by Steve Russell Studios
©YAYOI KUSAMA

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NEWS

Nov 12

2020

Yayoi Kusama Museum’s measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection

To ensure the safety of all visitors and our employees, Yayoi Kusama Museum takes several measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection. Please read the following instructions before your visit. We appreciate your cooperation to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Considering the situation, further changes might be made. Please check our website for any updates before your visit.

[Our measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection]

  • · All of our employees will have their body temperature checked when they report to work. Museum staff will wear masks (some of the staff will also wear gloves) while they are in the museum. Welcoming staff will wear face shields.
  • · Plexiglass barriers are installed in front of the cash register.
  • · The museum is cleaned and sanitized frequently, especially doors, handles, elevator and lavatories.
  • · To reduce the density of visitors, number of visitors in one admission slot (90 minutes) is limited to 40.
  • · To prevent the spread of the COVID-19 infection, some of the facilities in the museum will be out of service.

[When you are in the museum]

  • · Please practice social distancing during your visit. Please follow the signs on the floor when queueing.
  • · You may need to wait before entering the museum, or any particular part of the museum. Please keep an appropriate distance from each other and follow the instructions from our staff when waiting.
  • · Please refrain from talking in the gallery.
  • · When shopping, please sanitize your hands before touching the goods. Cashless payment is recommended.

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To Visitors

Sep 11

2020

Yayoi Kusama Foundation collaborates with Veuve Clicquot

Yayoi Kusama has designed a limited edition gift box and a limited edition flower sculpture for La Grande Dame 2012 of Veuve Clicquot. Read more

Aug 27

2020

An open correspondence concerning the special exhibition ZERO IS INFINITY　ZERO and Yayoi Kusama is now available online (Part 1).

The commemorative lecture “ZERO and Yayoi Kusama” scheduled on March 5, 2020 has been cancelled due to the condition of COVID-19. To introduce the relationship between ZERO and Yayoi Kusama, Dr. Barbara Könches (managing director of ZERO foundation) and Seiha Kurosawa (curator of Yayoi Kusama Museum) exchange their opinions through a series of open correspondence.
Part 2 of the open correspondence will be released soon.