OBLITERATION OF LIFE 2011 © YAYOI KUSAMA
YAYOI KUSAMA MUSEUM
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Dates
Thursday, October 8, 2026 – Sunday, January 31, 2027
All tickets must be purchased in advance online. Entry is timed and only valid for a specific 90-minute time slot.
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One of the most influential artists of the 20TH AND 21ST Centuries, Kusama occupies a unique position within recent art history. Since her early assimilation of pop art and minimalism in the 1960s, she has created a highly personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable, her works frequently deploy repetitive elements, such as dots, to evoke both microscopic and macroscopic universes.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: David Zwirner Gallery Archive
Yayoi Kusama’s work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career encompasses paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Fondation Beyeler Archive
Over a career spanning more than three decades, photographer Jeff Brouws has operated as a self-described “visual anthropologist,” constructing a rigorous catalog of the built environment across the United States. His work interrogates the socio-spatial and socio-economic remnants of mid-century American idealism and the late-stage capitalistic shifts that followed. From the expanse of the interstate highway system and corporate sprawl to deindustrialized inner-city corridors, Brouws uses structured photographic typologies and deliberate narrative frameworks to map an ever-changing national identity.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Robert Mann Gallery Archive
“Architecture as mountains” is how the Chinese architect, Wang Shu (4/11/1963- ) describes his design for the Ningbo Historic Museum. His buildings have the unique ability to evoke the past, without making direct references to history. With his practice partner and wife Lu Wenyu, they founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize, the world’s Nobel Prize in architecture.
By Efi Michalarou
Stan Douglas’s work explores the relationship between history, memory, and representation through photography, film, and multimedia installations. Drawing on historical events, literature, music, and cinema, he reconstructs forgotten or overlooked narratives, often examining social and political transformations. His meticulously staged images and complex audiovisual works challenge conventional storytelling, revealing how technology, ideology, and cultural memory shape our understanding of the past and present.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Jeu de Paume Archive
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th Century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials, pioneered do-it-yourself construction systems as well as Avant-Garde experimentation, and advanced original theories with regards to nature, urban planning, and social politics (Part II).
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MoMA Archive
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered the greatest architect of the 20th century, and the greatest American architect of all time. He perfected a distinctly American style of architecture that emphasized simplicity and natural beauty in contrast to the elaborate and ornate architecture that had prevailed in Europe.
By Efi Michalarou
Diane Arbus was one of the most original and influential American Photographers of the 20th Century and was known for her photographs of outsiders and ordinary people of society. Diane Arbus is the kind of complex, ambitious, taboo-smashing artist whose life, work and the connection between the two, are endlessly fascinating. Her photographs, particularly those of whom she termed “freaks”, set off a shockwave in the ’60s. And they still have the power shock the viewer’s psyche.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Fritz Scholder is credited with having reconceptualized the portrayal of Native Americans in contemporary art away from traditional, romanticized stereotypes to a “new realism” with candid, truthful, even startling, images of modern-day Native people. He became famous for his ground-breaking resolve to “paint the Indian real, not red.” His myriad approaches to the subject established his place as a leading progenitor of the New American Indian Art movement, which opened the door to Native American artists for invigorated prominence and a new artistic freedom in the contemporary art world.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo M.M.K. Archive
The exhibition project “Carrying” activates spaces inside and outside the building of Museum Brandhorst. Works by nternational artists occupy historically charged sites and transit zones of the museum as well as the public space. Architectural interventions, performances, paintings, and sound and film works enter into dialogue with the museum and interrogate the entanglement of military and cultural power.
By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Museum Brandhorst Archive
Aldo Rossi advocated the use of a limited range of building types and concern for the context in which a building is constructed. This postmodern approach, known as neorationalism, represents a reinvigoration of austere classicism. In addition to his built work, he is known for his writings, numerous drawings and paintings, and designs for furniture and other objects.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MAXXI Archive
Aldo Rossi advocated the use of a limited range of building types and concern for the context in which a building is constructed. This postmodern approach, known as neorationalism, represents a reinvigoration of austere classicism. In addition to his built work, he is known for his writings, numerous drawings and paintings, and designs for furniture and other objects.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: MAXXI Archive
