Yayoi Kusama
A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
23 Apr - 15 Aug 2021
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “My Eternal Soul” series, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “My Eternal Soul” series, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “Matsumoto Shows, 1952”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “Matsumoto Shows, 1952”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, New York, 1963”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Installation view “Infinity Mirror Room – The Eternally Infinite Light of the Universe Illuminating the Quest for Truth”, 2021, Gropius Bau. Photo: Luca Girardini
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important contemporary artists. From 23 April to 15 August 2021, the Gropius Bau will devote the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to Kusama’s work.
Presented across almost 3000 m2, "Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective" will offer an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and feature a number of current works as well as a newly realised Infinity Mirror Room.
The retrospective will focus primarily on tracing the development of Kusama’s creative output from her early paintings and accumulative sculptures to her immersive environments, as well exploring her lesser-known artistic activity in Germany and Europe.
Since the 1960s, the artist has been actively engaged in realising exhibition projects outside the former centre of her life in New York and showing her work in a European context. This has also brought to the fore Kusama’s role as a pioneer of personal branding, who early on in her practice intentionally staged and marketed her own artistic persona and multidisciplinary work.
Within the exhibition framework, reconstructions will allow viewers to experience the pioneering nature of her presentational forms and artistic subjects, making accessible Kusama’s early exhibition projects in Germany and Europe in the 1960s and central solo exhibitions in the USA and Asia from the 1950s to 1980s.
A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important contemporary artists. From 23 April to 15 August 2021, the Gropius Bau will devote the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to Kusama’s work.
Presented across almost 3000 m2, "Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective" will offer an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and feature a number of current works as well as a newly realised Infinity Mirror Room.
The retrospective will focus primarily on tracing the development of Kusama’s creative output from her early paintings and accumulative sculptures to her immersive environments, as well exploring her lesser-known artistic activity in Germany and Europe.
Since the 1960s, the artist has been actively engaged in realising exhibition projects outside the former centre of her life in New York and showing her work in a European context. This has also brought to the fore Kusama’s role as a pioneer of personal branding, who early on in her practice intentionally staged and marketed her own artistic persona and multidisciplinary work.
Within the exhibition framework, reconstructions will allow viewers to experience the pioneering nature of her presentational forms and artistic subjects, making accessible Kusama’s early exhibition projects in Germany and Europe in the 1960s and central solo exhibitions in the USA and Asia from the 1950s to 1980s.