M+, Asia's first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, is pleased to announce its critically acclaimed Special Exhibition ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’ concluded yesterday and had received over 280,000 visitations, including local and international audiences since its opening on 12 November 2022.
‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’ was the first special exhibition presented by M+ since its opening in November 2021.
Co-curated by Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator, M+ and Mika Yoshitake, independent curator, ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’ will be on tour to Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain for slightly over three months from 27 June to 8 October 2023.
Nearly 200 works exhibited in M+ will be shipped to Spain for the exhibition. ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’ at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be the most extensive retrospective of Kusama in Spain in the past ten years.
Meanwhile, the three popular large-scale works from Yayoi Kusama will continue to be displayed at M+.
Visitors can access Dots Obsession Aspiring to Heavens Love (2022) and the site-specific installation Death of Nerves (2022) commissioned by M+ at B2 with General Admission tickets.
Moreover, all visitors can view the two large sculptures, Pumpkin (2022) by Yayoi Kusama, at the Main Hall free of charge.
Following the conclusion of ‘Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now’, from Tuesday, 16 May 2023 and until further notice, holders of General Admission tickets can access all M+ galleries (except West Gallery), including Found Space and The Studio at B2, East Galleries, Focus Gallery, Sigg Galleries, South Galleries and The Cabinet on 2/F, as well as Cissy Pui-Lai Pao and Shinichiro Watari Galleries from 9 June 2023 onwards where Angela Su proudly presents: Lauren OThe Greatest Levitator in the Polyhedric Cosmos of Time will be on display until 8 October 2023.
Admission to the museum buildings B1 level, Pumpkin (2022), and Hong Kong: Here and Beyond in the Main Hall Gallery on Ground Floor will remain free of charge.
Visitors are reminded that Hong Kong: Here and Beyond captures Hong Kong's transformation from the post-war decades to the present.
Beeple: HUMAN ONE, a dynamic work showing the first human born inside the metaverse currently displayed at the Focus Gallery, will end on Sunday, 11 June 2023. For more information, please visit the M+ website.
