Yayoi Kusama's first Swiss museum retrospective in 2025 at Fondation Beyeler

In the fall of 2025, Fondation Beyeler will be the first museum in Switzerland to host a major retrospective devoted to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929). Organized in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the exhibition will offer a comprehensive overview of her artistic production, tracing Kusama’s entire career from her early creative experiments to her most recent works.

Visitors will have the opportunity to view some of the artist’s most celebrated works, such as the mirror installations known as Infinity Mirror Rooms, which create the illusion of infinite spaces and immerse the audience in worlds without boundaries. In addition to these installations, the retrospective will feature early works that have never before been exhibited in Europe to offer a perspective on the early stages of Kusama’s career, as well as new works.

Yayoi Kusama is considered one of the superstars of contemporary art, whose repetitive patterns and obsessive structures-particularly the distinctive polka dots that dot many of her works-have captured the global imagination. With these symbols, Kusama creates visual universes that challenge the boundaries of perception and transport the audience into a dreamlike, psychedelic dimension. The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler will offer a comprehensive look at the extraordinary versatility of the artist, who over the years has worked in numerous mediums of expression, moving naturally from painting to sculpture, from installations to performance and fashion to literature. His work reflects a constant search for new languages to express his inner world, often populated by recurring figures and a unique aesthetic that defies convention.

This retrospective is organized jointly by Fondation Beyeler with the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. After the Swiss stop, scheduled from October 12, 2025 to January 25, 2026, the exhibition will continue at the Museum Ludwig (March 14 to August 2, 2026), and then land at the Stedelijk Museum, where the public can visit from September 11, 2026 to January 17, 2027.

Image: Kusama with Yellow Tree / Living Room at the Aichi Triennial, 2010. Credit Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama's first Swiss museum retrospective in 2025 at Fondation Beyeler

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