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Yayoi Kusama 2026|草间弥生

从1957年的剪报到2025年的镜屋，她用一生把自己化进了波点里。2026年夏天她离开，这些点没有停下，仍在往宇宙的方向扩散。

From a 1957 scrapbook to a mirror room made in 2025, she spent a lifetime dissolving herself into dots. She left in the summer of 2026; the dots did not stop, and keep spreading toward the cosmos.

Atrium and entrance to the Yayoi Kusama exhibition seen from the staircase, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Flowers That Speak All about My Heart Given to the Sky (2018) above Narcissus Garden mirror balls, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Flowers That Speak All about My Heart Given to the Sky, 2018. Painted bronze. With Narcissus Garden

Detail of Kusama's 1957 scrapbook of press clippings, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Visitor on the phone before an early pastel drawing with figures by Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Red-and-green Infinity Net painting, detail, Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Orange-red Infinity Net painting, detail, Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

No. N2, 1961 (detail)

Visitor viewing a green-and-yellow net-patterned diptych

Sprouting, 1992. Acrylic on canvas. On loan from Yas Takeda

Large red Infinity Net painting above a gallery bench
Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show (1963), a white boat covered in soft protrusions, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, 1963. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift of the artist

Silver mannequin in an accumulation dress by Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Detail of a red-and-yellow branch painting with black dots by Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
White-on-black pumpkin painting by Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Group of yellow pumpkin sculptures with black dots, Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Close-up of a yellow pumpkin sculpture with black dots by Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Yellow dotted tentacle sculptures by Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Seven small patterned paintings hung on a white wall, Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Wall of small colorful paintings doubled in a mirror, Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Paintings from the series Every Day I Pray for Love

Salon-style wall of small Kusama paintings seen through a window opening, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Paintings from the series Every Day I Pray for Love, incl. Every Day I Pray for Love, 2023. Acrylic and marker pen on canvas

View through a wall opening to a white installation box with a round peephole, printed with Kusama's poem 'Beyond Art'
Framed works on the walls of a sage-green gallery room, Yayoi Kusama exhibition, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Visitor seated before a wall of large colorful Kusama paintings, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Paintings from the series My Eternal Soul, 2009–2021

Infinity Mirrored Room: The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe (2025), Yayoi Kusama, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, 2025

Window covered with dots looking out to Museumplein, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Photographed at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2026. Artworks by Yayoi Kusama. © Yayoi Kusama. Photographs © Kangfoto.