Berlin prepares to welcome a major Yayoi Kusama retrospective

Berlin is preparing to host a major exhibition on Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929): from March 19 to August 1, 2021, the Gropius Bau, the museum named after the great Bauhaus architect, will in fact host the exhibition Yayoi Kusama. A Retrospective, the first retrospective in Germany entirely devoted to Kusama’s work. On an exhibition area of three thousand square meters, the show, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, will cover seventy years of art, dividing the artist’s production into key periods, and presenting the public with historical works as well as new ones: among them one of her Infinity Mirrored Rooms specially created for the occasion.

The aim of the exhibition will be to trace the terms of the development of Yayoi Kusama’s creative journey, from her early paintings and accumulative sculptures to her large immersive environments and lesser-known activities. Since the 1960s, the artist has continued to present projects around the world and exhibit her work in major venues: this has also made Yayoi Kusama a pioneer of so-called personal branding, also part of her artistic practice and multidisciplinary work.

The exhibition will also present some reconstructions of exhibition projects that Yayoi Kusama took on tour in the 1960s in Germany and Europe and of some of her solo exhibitions that took place between the United States and Asian countries in a period from the 1950s to the 1980s. Organized by Gropius Bau in collaboration with the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the exhibition has received the patronage of Germany’s Ministry of Culture, and is supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne and Sparkassen-Kulturfonds des Deutschen Sparkassen-und Giroverbandes, with support from Light Art Space.

Image: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirror Room - Phalli’s Field (1965). © YAYOI KUSAMA, courtesy: Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro & David Zwirner.

Berlin prepares to welcome a major Yayoi Kusama retrospective

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