YAYOI KUSAMA INFINITY SELECTED WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION

【Venue】

Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka

【Dates】

July 16, 2025 (Wed) – January 12, 2026 (Mon)

【Hours】

12:00 – 20:00

【Closed】

According to Louis Vuitton Maison Osaka Midosuji’s business hours

【Admission】

Free

【Overview】

In conjunction with the 2025 Japan International Exposition (Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai), Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka is pleased to present YAYOI KUSAMA: INFINITY – Selected Works from the Collection.

Spanning from the artist’s early works that marked her emergence on the international art scene to her most recent creations, the exhibition reveals not only the breadth of Kusama’s artistic practice but also the enduring thematic continuity that has guided her work since her formative years in 1960s New York.

This presentation is part of the Hors-les-murs program, an initiative by the Fondation Louis Vuitton that showcases works from its collection at Espaces Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Munich, Venice, Beijing, Seoul, and Osaka, aiming to share its collection with audiences around the world.

Yayoi Kusama is an extraordinarily prolific artist whose work is characterized by metamorphic expression and obsessive repetition. As a painter, sculptor, performance artist, novelist, and fashion designer, she has demonstrated remarkable creative energy throughout her career. The works in this exhibition trace her artistic trajectory and illuminate her complex relationship with major movements in Japanese and American art. While engaging in dialogue with Pop Art and Minimalism—and at times inspiring them—Kusama’s work retains an unmistakable individuality and deeply personal intensity.

Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, and based in Tokyo since 1973, Kusama spent her childhood surrounded by plants at her family’s seed nursery. Around the age of ten, she began painting and experienced her first hallucinations—visions of flowers covering an entire room and enveloping her body. These early experiences shaped her singular worldview and have driven her creative expression ever since. In what she calls a process of “self-therapy,” repeated motifs become a crucial means of expression.

Her Infinity Nets and Dots series from the 1960s evolved into floating forms reminiscent of stars, cells, and abstract patterns in recent works. Through these motifs, she continually gives tangible form to her fears and obsessions.

A highlight of the exhibition, Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (or Floor Show) (1965 / 2013), the first of her renowned “Infinity Mirror Rooms,” invites viewers into an endless field of polka dots for an immersive, disorienting experience. Like her painting Every Day I Pray for Love (2023), the work reflects her poetic meditation on hallucination and the human place in the cosmos.

Through the use of her signature motifs—polka dots and infinity nets—Kusama invites us to contemplate infinity and guides us toward a visual immersion in what she calls “self-obliteration,” where the self dissolves and becomes one with the surrounding space.