MELBOURNE: 13 December 2024: From Sunday 15 December 2024, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia celebrates the illustrious career of iconic contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama with a world-premiere blockbuster exhibition spanning her eight-decade practice, including the global unveiling of the artist’s most recent immersive infinity mirror room work.
Curated by the NGV especially for Australian audiences, the exhibition Yayoi Kusama features 200 works, including many never-before-seen in Australia and a record-breaking number of the artist’s showstopping immersive artworks.
Displayed across the entire ground floor of NGV International, Yayoi Kusama is one of the most comprehensive retrospective exhibitions of the artist’s work ever presented globally and the largest ever mounted in Australia. The exhibition traces her entire career – from her childhood in the 1930s through to the present-day – through a rich selection of works drawn from the artist’s personal collection, private collections and premier institutions across Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia. Featuring painting, sculpture, collage, fashion, video and installation, the exhibition reveals the astonishing breadth of Kusama’s multidisciplinary practice.
Born in Japan in 1929, Kusama is one of the world’s most important and recognised artists working today. She is renowned globally for her singular and idiosyncratic use of pattern, colour and symbols to create immersive, thought-provoking and intensely personal works of art that transcend cultural contexts. She has made indelible contributions to key art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including minimalism, pop art and feminist art.
Yayoi Kusama is on display from 15 December 2024 to 21 April 2025 at NGV International, St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Entry fees apply. Further information and tickets are available via the NGV website: NGV.MELBOURNE.
