{"id":163373,"date":"2025-08-21T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163373\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:50:15","slug":"yayoi-kusama-european-retrospective-exhibition-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/163373\/","title":{"rendered":"Yayoi Kusama European Retrospective Exhibition 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A landmark Yayoi Kusama retrospective will travel across Europe, making stops at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland; Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany; and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>The exhibition will survey the artist\u2019s seven-decade-long career and will feature a range of paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings and literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Immensely iconic and influential, <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/yayoi-kusama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yayoi Kusama<\/a> will be the focus of a major retrospective showcase set to land at several museums across the Europe. Co-presented by Swiss <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/fondation-beyeler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fondation Beyeler<\/a>, Museum Ludwig in Cologne and Amsterdam\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/stedelijk-museum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stedelijk Museum<\/a>, the show will survey the entirety of Kusama\u2019s illustrious seven-decade-long career, with new productions, early works making their continental debut and, of course, her celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/2024\/12\/yayoi-kusama-infinity-mirrored-room-premiere-national-gallery-of-victoria-melbourne-australia-exhibition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infinity Mirror Rooms<\/a> abound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYayoi Kusama is an artist who compels us to see the world through a different lens,\u201d Stedlijk Museum director Rein Wolfs said upon the initial announcement last year. \u201cThis exhibition promises to be a feast for the eyes where one can truly lose themselves in her extraordinary art.\u201d Created in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the retrospective will traverse across mediums, such as painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, collage, \u201chappenings,\u201d live performance, fashion and literature.\n<\/p>\n<p>Having come up in the New York\u2019s avant-garde movement in the 1960\u2019s, the artist rose to cult status nurturing an expansive artistic universe, characterized through swaths of repeating patterns and structures, creating an signature out of polka dot landscapes and immersive mirrored environments. Ideas of infinity and self-obliteration are often found at the heart of her work, as she takes viewers through her embark past the limits of reality, blurring the lines between the observer and the expanse that lays ahead.\n<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation in Switzerland, the country\u2019s first museum show dedicated to the artist, the exhibition will make stops at Museum Cologne from March 14 through August 2, 2026, and Stedelijk Museum from September 11 2026 until January 17, 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait until October? A concurrent Kusama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr\/en\/events\/yayoi-kusama-infinity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">presentation<\/a>, titled\u00a0Infinity, is now on view at Espace Louis Vuitton in Osaka.\n<\/p>\n<p>For more updates and information about the European shows, check out Fondation Beyeler\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondationbeyeler.ch\/en\/exhibitions\/yayoi-kusama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary A landmark Yayoi Kusama retrospective will travel across Europe, making stops at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-163373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115065901818040096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}