Jul 24 2019

East Japan

Yayoi Kusama Museum

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Experience the creation of Yayoi Kusama

The Yayoi Kusama Museum opened in October 2017. It aims to globally spread the message of world peace and love for humanity that Kusama has repeatedly promoted through her work, and helps many people become familiar with contemporary art. The museum introduces her work through two exhibitions per year, and holds events such as lectures.

Yayoi Kusama Museum
Photo by Kawasumi-Kobayashi Kenji Photograph Office

About Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama
Photo: (c) YAYOI KUSAMA

Kusama is an avant-garde artist and novelist who was born in 1929 in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. She moved to the United States in 1957 and established her position as an avant-garde artist. Overcoming various obsessions, she discovered an artistic philosophy of self-obliteration through the obsessive repetition and multiplication of single motifs. She was named as the ‘World’s Most Popular Artist in 2014’ by The Art Newspaper. In 2016, she received Japan’s Order of Culture.