Kusama for Kids

This summer Yayoi Kusama’s kaleidoscopic installation, The obliteration room, 2002 – present, will take over the NGV’s dedicated children’s gallery.

An immersive art installation inviting everyone to ‘obliterate’ a white domestic interior by sticking multi-coloured polka dots over every surface.

Born in Japan in 1929, Kusama is one of the world’s most important and recognised practitioners working today. Kusama is renowned globally for her singular and idiosyncratic use of pattern, colour and symbols to create immersive, thought-provoking and intensely personal works of art that transcend language and borders. The artist has made indelible contributions to key art movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including minimalism, pop art, performance and feminist art, and is celebrated today for her instantly recognisable works of art incorporating pumpkin and polka-dot motifs.