Infinite Reflections: Yayoi Kusama at the Fondation Beyeler
04 November 2025
This autumn, the Fondation Beyeler presents Switzerland’s first major solo exhibition dedicated to Yayoi Kusama—a visionary whose hypnotic worlds of repetition, reflection, and infinity. On view from 12 October 2025 to 25 January 2026, the exhibition unites more than 300 works spanning seven decades of creation, including over 130 pieces not yet shown in Europe.
Developed in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the exhibition traces Kusama’s journey from her early watercolours of the 1950s in Matsumoto, Japan, to her radical experiments in New York’s avant-garde scene during the 1960s and 1970s. Returning to Japan in the later years, Kusama reinvented her visual language again and again.
Kusama’s practice defies boundaries. Painting, sculpture, installation, performance, fashion, and film intertwine into a single, pulsating cosmos. Central to her universe is the notion of infinity—not merely as a visual motif, but as a lived and spiritual experience. The recurring polka dots, nets, and mirrored surfaces that populate her oeuvre dissolve distinctions between self and environment, interior and exterior, body and cosmos. In Kusama’s hands, repetition becomes both a meditation and a release: an attempt to transcend the limits of individuality and embrace the infinite.
The Fondation Beyeler’s presentation offers visitors an opportunity to experience Kusama’s immersive environments. The museum’s galleries and surrounding park are transformed by her iconic installations, including a reimagined version of Narcissus Garden (1966/2025), shimmering in the open air, and a new Infinity Mirrored Room – Illusion Inside the Heart (2025), specially conceived for this exhibition.
As Kusama’s mirrored spheres reflect the changing light and movement of visitors, the exhibition becomes a living, evolving artwork—an invitation to lose oneself and, paradoxically, to see oneself more clearly. It is a celebration of boundless imagination and an exploration of the infinite within us all.
