Amsterdam Museum Unveils Kusama Retrospective as Tribute After Death
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is staging a comprehensive Kusama retrospective with 300+ works, an immersive infinity room, and around 50 pieces never before shown, serving as a posthumous tribute after her death at 97. The exhibition extends Kusama’s signature polka-dot world to public spaces, wrapping trees and the building facade in dots, and aims to appeal to both new visitors and longtime fans.
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About Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work was based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She was acknowledged as one of the most important artists to have come out of Japan, and was one of the world's top-selling female artists and ranked #19 in Sotheby's 2023 list of the top 50 artists. Her work influenced her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
Everything about Yayoi Kusama →- Occupation
- conceptual artist, sculptor, novelist, painter
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Born
- March 22, 1929, 1929
- Died
- August 14, 2026, 2026
- Website
- https://yayoi-kusama.jp/