Installation view of Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, featuring monumental polka-dot flower sculptures.

Installation view, Yayoi Kusama, 2026, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photos by Peter Tijhuis. Artworks and images © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts

Yayoi Kusama’s The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, featuring yellow and black polka dots.

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, 2025. Photo by Mark Niedermann. © YAYOI KUSAMA

Yayoi Kusama’s Illusion Inside the Heart, an Infinity Mirrored Room filled with colorful lights and reflections.

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room—Illusion Inside the Heart, 2025. Collection of the artist. Photos by Peter Tijhuis. Artworks and images © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts

Installation view of Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, featuring colorful paintings and sculptures.

Installation view, Yayoi Kusama, 2026, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photos by Peter Tijhuis. Artworks and images © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts

 

Yayoi Kusama Retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

September 11, 2026–January 17, 2027

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the third and final leg of a major traveling retrospective of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most influential and innovative artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition presents more than seventy years of her groundbreaking oeuvre. Diverse disciplines are featured: painting, sculpture, installations, drawings, fashion, collages, and happenings.

Yayoi Kusama highlights how the artist has inspired a global impact with her groundbreaking art for decades. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Fondation Beyeler outside Basel (where it was on view from October 2025 to January 2026) and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (on view from March to August 2026).

Learn more at the Stedelijk Museum.