Yayoi Kusama in Melbourne

Yayoi Kusama in Melbourne – 2025

Yayoi Kusama in Melbourne

13 – 16 February 2025

Join ArtTravel in Melbourne in February 2025 to visit the extraordinary Yayoi Kusama at the NGV.

Travel to Melbourne with ArtTravel for 3 nights

Spend time discovering Melbourne’s alleyways along Flinders Lane, visit local galleries, and spend a day in the countryside visiting The Tarrawarra Museum of Art, and lunch with wine tasting at The Tarrawarra Estate.

Yayoi Kusama

Born in Japan in 1929, Kusama is one of the world’s most important and recognised practitioners working today. Kusama is renowned globally for her singular and idiosyncratic use of pattern, colour and symbols to create immersive, thought-provoking and intensely personal works of art that transcend language and borders. The artist has made indelible contributions to key art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including minimalism, pop art, performance and feminist art, and is celebrated today for her instantly recognisable works of art incorporating pumpkin and polka-dot motifs.

About the exhibition

Curated by the NGV in collaboration with the artist especially for Australian audiences, the exhibition Yayoi Kusama includes many works never-before-seen by local audiences as well as a diverse display of the artist’s popular immersive rooms, including the global unveiling of the artist’s most recent immersive infinity mirror room work.

Comprising more than 180 works, the exhibition is the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s work in Australia and one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of the artist ever presented globally. Featuring painting, sculpture, collage, fashion, video and installation, the exhibition reveals the astonishing breadth of Kusama’s multidisciplinary practice.

Yayoi Kusama will be displayed across the entire ground floor of NGV International and extend into NGV’s public spaces and the surrounding Melbourne Arts Precinct including NGV’s iconic Waterwall, Great Hall, and Federation Court.