Japanese artist’s famous polka dot pumpkins and other works to come to Hong Kong’s M+ for an exhibition filled with ‘many surprises’

Tickets are now on sale for the M+ museum’s ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’, the largest retrospective of the contemporary Japanese artist in Asia outside Japan

More than 200 pieces from the 93-year-old’s career will be exhibited, including her paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and archival materials

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“Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now” will display more than 200 pieces from the 93-year-old’s career at the M+ museum in Hong Kong.

Published: 5:08pm, 13 Oct 2022Updated: 5:09pm, 13 Oct 2022

Tickets for the much-anticipated exhibition of Yayoi Kusama at Hong Kong’s M+ museum go on sale today.

“Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now” is the largest retrospective of the contemporary Japanese artist in Asia outside Japan.

More than 200 pieces from the 93-year-old contemporary queen’s career will be exhibited, including her paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and archival materials.

“It will fulfil what people want to see – the polka dots, the infinity mirror rooms, the pumpkins – but, in a career spanning over seven decades, there are many new things that even Kusama devotees will not have seen,” says Doryun Chong, deputy director, curatorial and chief curator of the museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District. “There will be many surprises.”

“Self Obliteration” (1966-1974) by Yayoi Kusama. Photo: M+ Hong Kong

The retrospective will occupy multiple showrooms in the M+ museum including the West Gallery, The Studio, Main Hall, Lightwell and Found Space.