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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Presents Major Yayoi Kusama Retrospective

The exhibition will cover more than seven decades of work by the Japanese artist, spanning childhood experimentation to her iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms

The Art Journal28 May, 2026

Yayoi Kusama, Anatomic Explosion, 1968 (Brooklyn Bridge, New York). Photo: Shunk-Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust. Courtesy Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Gift of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation in Memory of Harry Shunk and Janos Kender

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will stage a major retrospective of work by Yayoi Kusama, opening 11 September.

The exhibition will cover more than seven decades of work by the Japanese artist, spanning childhood experimentation to her iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, and new productions made especially for the exhibition. Kusama was one of the first female Asian artists to break into the heavily male art scene of 1960s New York. Her sometimes controversial public art demonstrations protested the Vietnam War and advocated for free love. Since then, her career has spanned mediums including paintings, sculpture, fashion, collages, happenings and more.

This will be one of the largest exhibitions ever staged in the Stedelijk Museum (founded in the late 19th century).

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