After-Hours Viewing of Yayoi Kusama Exhibition at NGV

Tue 4th February, 2025
6:00pm – 8:30pm
NGV International
180 St Kilda Road Melbourne
Price: $27 + booking fees
An evening with Kusama. Meander your way through Yayoi Kusama’s polka-dotted paradise, after hours. It’s the most comprehensive display of her work to date, showcasing more than 180 pieces from the Japanese artist’s eight-decade career. Plus, catch an intimate chat with the gallery’s senior curator of Asian art.

Night at the museum, NGV edition. Just you, a quiet gallery and 180 of Yayoi Kusama’s wacky creations, stretching across the NGV’s ground floor. In this exclusive viewing of the Japanese artist’s immense retrospective, you’ll get close and personal with the pieces that have been making waves for eight decades.

Enter through the gallery’s waterfall, where you’ll be greeted by the team. Then, be seated to hear from Wayne Crothers (senior curator of Asian art at NGV) in conversation with Broadsheet’s Australia editor, before you wander through the exhibition at your own pace.

The two-part retrospective is a display of phenomenal breadth, inviting guests to move chronologically through the artist’s life – learning about her childhood, life in New York in the 1960s and her ascent to become one of the world’s most renowned contemporary artists (and the self-appointed “high priestess of polka dots”).

While Kusama’s hypnotic, speckled aesthetic has become emblematic of her work, this exhibition offers insight into the many mediums she has worked across during her career. You’ll wander from kaleidoscopic, mirrored infinity rooms to a spotty inflatable playground; from radical fashion pieces (think “peekaboo clothing”) and avant-garde sculptures, to her acclaimed Infinity Net paintings.

Access members can view the Yayoi Kusama exhibition after hours for less than $30 a ticket, available from January 23, 2025.

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