Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamMuseumplein / Amsterdam-Zuid

Yayoi Kusama

Now showing11 September 2026 – 17 January 2027€32.50

Landmark retrospective spanning more than seven decades of Kusama's work — painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, fashion, collage and happenings.

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On now All of October 2026

Red-and-white dots appear on the Museumplein trees and the Stedelijk's facade before you reach a single work. Inside, more than 300 works span seven decades, starting with childhood drawings where the dots first show up.

The show fills a whole wing, running through net paintings, silver accumulation sculptures, the 1965 rowing boat of Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show and late paintings hung in a grid. Two Infinity Mirror Rooms get roughly 25 seconds each, depending on the crowd. That is about one red light at Leidseplein, so look first and photograph second.

Tickets carry a fixed start time and sell out weeks ahead, with the last slot at 16:45. Adults pay €32.50 and under-18s are free. Flash, tripods and selfie sticks are banned.

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It starts with the childhood drawings where the dots first appear, then runs through seven decades and more than 300 works, including the 1965 rowing boat of Aggregation. The two Infinity Mirror Rooms give you about 25 seconds each.

Look for

The childhood drawings
Drawings Kusama made as a child, where the dot patterns that fill the rest of the show first appear.
Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show (1965)
A rowing boat covered in white protrusions, set against photograph wallpaper.
The two Infinity Mirror Rooms
Mirrored rooms you pass through in short turns of about 25 seconds, depending on the crowd.
The pumpkin sculptures
Yellow pumpkins covered in black dots.
The late paintings
Vividly coloured recent canvases hung together in a grid.