M+ Museum
October 2022
Comprising more than 200 works, including three new pieces, to be presented across various locations at the M+ museum in Hong Kong, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now is the largest Kusama retrospective to be staged in Asia, outside of the artist’s native Japan. Open November 12, 2022 to May 14, 2023, the exhibition is co-curated by Doryun Chong and Mika Yoshitake and organized chronologically and thematically, spanning Kusama’s earliest work to her most recent output. Yayoi Kusama: 1945 features a wide range of paintings, installations, sculptures, drawings, collages, moving images, and archival materials, and examines Kusama's practice as it developed in Japan, the United States, Europe, and beyond through six themes: Infinity, Accumulation, Radical Connectivity, Biocosmic, Death, and Force of Life. The exhibition also presents three new works to audiences for the first time. Death of Nerves (2022) is a large- scale installation commissioned by M+. Installed in the Lightwell that connects the museum’s ground floor and the basement levels and draping down to the Found Space on the B2 level, the work can be viewed from multiple vantages throughout the M+ building. Dots Obsession—Aspiring to Heaven's Love (2022), presented in The Studio on the B2 level, is an ambitious immersive environment that includes one of the artist’s signature mirrored spaces. Two large sculptures titled Pumpkin (2022) will be available for public viewing in the Main Hall on the ground floor. Accompanying the exhibition will be a catalogue, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, published by Thames & Hudson in collaboration with M+. For more information about the exhibition and ticketing, go to M+.