Kusama opens at Fondation Beyeler on October 12 then tours Cologne and Amsterdam with an Infinity Room and early works.
Yayoi Kusama will take over three European cities in the coming year. Opening at Fondation Beyeler on October 12, 2025, the retrospective marks the artist’s first museum show in Switzerland. It arrives with the familiar hallmarks: immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, the hypnotic dots, and those unmistakable pumpkins.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Together with Kusama’s studio, the institutions have shaped a survey that spans more than seventy years. Paintings, sculptures, installations, collage, and performance sit beside works tied to fashion and literature, illustrating how she has never confined herself to one medium. Early works that have never been shown in Europe will appear, alongside newly created pieces.
Kusama’s career arc began in postwar Japan before her move to New York in the 1960s, where she inserted herself into the city’s avant-garde scene. She embraced repetition and reflection as building blocks of her universe, translating them into expansive fields of polka dots and mirrored environments. At the core of her practice are themes of infinity and self-obliteration, ideas that continue to define how viewers experience her art.
For anyone eager to see her work sooner, Osaka’s Espace Louis Vuitton is hosting Yayoi Kusama: Infinity through January 12, 2026, presenting a compact but potent view of her trajectory.
Exhibition Details
- Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland: October 12, 2025 – January 25, 2026
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany: March 14, 2026 – August 2, 2026
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 11, 2026 – January 17, 2027
