12/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929): Guidepost To The New Space (2015)
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art of Modern Art in Denmark produced this poster (approx. 85 x 60 cm) for the first retrospective exhibition of YAYOI KUSAMA MUSEUM Kusama’s work in Scandinavia, In Infinity. The 2015 show was one of the most visited exhibitions in the museum’s history and included Kusama’s iconic red and white installation ‘Guidepost to the new space’.
Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works in sculpture, installation, painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry and fiction. Her work embodies feminism, minimalism, surrealism, pop art and abstract expressionism. It is infused with autobiographical, psychological and sexual content. Kusama is the world’s top-selling female artist. Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
Kusama trained at the Kyoto University of Arts in Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting style. She moved to New York in 1958 and became a part of the avant-garde pop art scene throughout the 1960s. Embracing the hippie counterculture, she organised happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly coloured polka dots. During the 1970s her work was largely overlooked, but a revival of interest in the 1980s brought her art back into public view.
Kusama has resided since the 1970s in a mental health facility. She told an interviewer in 2012: “I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.”
We have framed this beautiful poster with a Centrado Trading Ltd frame moulding and a LION Picture Framing Supplies bobble slip, and glazed it with Artglass UV70 anti-reflective glass. Kusama’s top price to date for a painting is $10.5m. This beautiful piece will set you back considerably less!
Framed price: £399
