Yayoi Kusama

  • Yayoi Kusama
  • Title: A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
  • Description: Designed exclusively for Gropius Bau’s atrium, A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe invites visitors to get lost in a forest of softly glowing, neon-pink tentacles. These tentacles emerge from the ground as if they were growing from the floor to the ceiling, as everywhere you look it is plastered by black polka dots.
  • Date: April 2021
  • Dimensions: Not Specified
  • Medium: Inflatable
  • Institutional Accreditation: Gropius Bau, Berlin
  • Yayoi Kusama
  • Title: Dancing Pumpkin
  • Description: Both playful and powerful, the 16-foot-high bronze sculpture is painted in black and yellow and finds a home amid an immerse landscape of river birches, flowering plants and trees. This pumpkin resembles a many-armed or legged creature than seems to be pirouetting across the garden.
  • Date: 2020
  • Dimensions: 500 x 296.9 x 297.8cm
  • Medium: Urethane paint on bronze
  • Institutional Accreditation: “Kusama: Cosmic Nature” at the New York Botanical Garden.