COMING SOON
YAYOI
KUSAMA
THE SPIRIT OF THE PUMPKINS
DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS
OCTOBER 2025 - OCTOBER 2027
Barely contained, a bright yellow room is overrun with black dots and a 'peep-show' mirror box is camouflaged by the reflections of its surrounding environment. With this installation, artist Yayoi Kusama invites viewers to immerse themselves in her world, to participate in an experience of both claustrophobic and infinite space, and a round trip from the microscopic into the cosmic.
A distinctive set of recurring motifs – dots, nets and eyes – have afforded Kusama a career-long investigation into the aesthetics of accumulation and obsession. With their disarming anthropomorphic forms, pumpkins are the most mystical of Kusama's motifs and have attained the status of fetishized object within her oeuvre. Here, as if implanted on our optical nerve, the dots of the wider room and the pumpkins within the 'peep-space', seem to reproduce at an alarming rate, overgrowing their environment and threatening to obliterate the viewer's body.
Yayoi Kusama is among the world's most influential artists. She has played a major role in the development of art in the late 20th century and maintains critical importance in our contemporary era. The artist is best known for her pioneering and multi-reflective installations. Reminiscent of the early biomorphic imagery of Phalli's field 1965, and Mirror Room (Pumpkin) 1991, Kusama's recent infinity experience, THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS, joins an iconic lineage.
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EVENTS
Born in Matsumoto, Japan in 1929, Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important and recognised practitioners working today. Kusama’s personal expression was indelibly shaped by her childhood experiences, including hallucinations that overwhelmed her sense of self. She has explained these visions as part of an obsessional neurosis that has driven her to create art for nearly nine decades.
Today, Kusama 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 language and borders. She has made significant contributions to key art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including minimalism, pop art and feminist art.
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