Victoria Miro is hosting a free exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s work in London this September, including one of the Japanese artist’s famous Infinity Rooms.
It will be the 95-year-old Japanese artist’s 14th solo show with the gallery and will debut a new series of paintings titled Every Day I Pray For Love. The works explore line and form and will be shown alongside new sculptures and a new Infinity Room, dissolving the distinction between space and time. (The exhibition is free to the public, but demand is expected to be high. Tickets will be released on Monday, 2 September 2024 – booking is essential.)
But Londoners don’t need to wait until September for their Kusama fix.
Her sculpture Infinite Accumulation will be unveiled at Liverpool Street Station in July. The site-specific artwork responds to the architecture of the train station’s new entrance and uses Kusama’s signature polka dots ‘expanded into linked forms that interact with and define public spaces outside the station,’ says the project statement.
Shockingly, it’s Kusama’s first permanent public work in the UK. The glistening sculpture was commissioned as part of the Crossrail Art Foundation’s public art programming for Elizabeth Line, with support from Victoria Miro.
Finally, Serpentine Galleries and The Royal Parks are installing a towering six-metre-high sculpture by the artist in the gardens this summer—’Kusama’s tallest bronze pumpkin to date’. The artwork will be in situ from Monday, 9 July, to Saturday, 3 November.
