Yayoi Kusama – Self-Obliteration No. 2 (1967) incl. frame in natural oak

Yayoi Kusama poster featuring the artwork, Self-Obliteration No. 2, (1967) framed in solid oak. 

The poster was released in conjunction with the exhibition of Kusama's life's work at Louisiana, Kusama - In Infinity, in 2016-2017. The exhibition was the first retrospective exhibition of the artist's work in Scandinavia and became one of the most visited exhibitions in Louisiana's history.

The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) is a unique figure in modern art – entirely her own, profoundly original, immensely popular. The poster's motif, Self-Obliteration No. 2, is from Kusama's formative period in 1960s New York, where new artistic movements such as pop art and minimalism took shape.

Kusama was part of this environment, but from her position as a non-Western, female artist, she developed a truly distinctive artistic universe that today stands as a significant and profoundly original contribution to post-war art.

In recent decades, Kusama has become world-renowned for her artistic universe of colorful, widely branched patterns that cover the surfaces of paintings and sculptures and extend into extensive installations where entire rooms, walls, floors, and ceilings are covered with soft shapes and dots in strong contrasts of black and yellow or white and red.

In the midst of this boundless visual universe stands Kusama herself: A strikingly present artist persona who not only stands behind the works but often in front of them – in photographs often dressed in clothes with the same pattern as the works, an artistic camouflage strategy that makes her visually merge with her art.