M+ first special exhitbiton︱ Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now

"Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now" represents the artist's largest retrospective exhibition in Asia outside Japan. Featuring more than 200 works, including paintings, installations, sculptures, drawings, collages, moving images, and archival materials, this exhibition traces Kusama's career from her earliest drawings as a teenager during World War II to her most recent works of art. Organised chronologically and thematically, this exhibition guides visitors through Kusama's career under the thematic banners of "Infinity", "Accumulation", "Radical Connectivity", "Biocosmic, Death" and "Force of Life".

• Death of Nerves (2022)

This large-scale installation commissioned by M+ can be viewed from multiple vantages throughout the M+ building.

• Dots Obsession - Aspiring to Heaven's Love (2022)

An ambitious immersive environment including one of the artist's signature mirrored spaces.

• Pumpkin (2022)

Two large sculptures made available for public viewing.

Yayoi Kusama. Pumpkins, 1998-2000. Collection of the artist.
© YAYOI KUSAMA

Yayoi Kusama. Self-Obliteration, 1966-1974. M+, Hong Kong.
© YAYOI KUSAMA. Photo: M+, Hong Kong

Yayoi Kusama. When I Saw the Largest Dream in Life, 2017. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner.
© YAYOI KUSAMA

Yayoi Kusama. Amidst the Agony of Flowers, the Present Never Ends. At the Stairs to Heaven, My Heart Expires in Their Tenderness. Calling From the Sky, Doubtless, Transparent in Its Shade of Blue. Embraces With the Shadow of Illusion Cumulonimbi Arise. Sounds of Tears, Shed Upon Eating the Colour of Cotton Rose, 2021. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts.
© YAYOI KUSAMA

West Gallery, The Studio, Main Hall, Lightwell, Found Space

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