Yayoi Kusama, Let’s Go to a Paradise of Glorious Tulips
Booth U43, Art Basel Unlimited, 16–22 June 2025
Presented at Art Basel Unlimited, this unique large-scale installation by Yayoi Kusama brings together some of the most iconic subjects within the artist’s personal universe.
Let’s Go to a Paradise of Glorious Tulips, 2009, is a unique large-scale installation by Yayoi Kusama. Composed of seven sculptures, the work is singular in bringing together some of the most iconic subjects within the artist’s personal universe to create a bright and playful environment. This impactful installation is a whimsical and individual example of the artist’s work. The sculpture creates a captivating scene where a soaring doll figure, flowers and dogs, rarely seen as a grouping in Kusama’s practice, are presented to form a sculptural stage on which the works interact to create the joyful whole. The sculpture brings to life a glorious expression of Kusama’s boundless imagination.
© YAYOI KUSAMA
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
Kusama 1
Fiberglass, urethane paint
Pink Dog: 80 x 104 x 45cm
Yellow Dog: 70 x 90 x 32cm
Purple Dog: 98 x1 30 x 60cm
Girl: 262 x 131 x 94cm
Purple-white Flower: 183 x 173 x 120cm
Red-yellow Flower: 236 x 1 87 x 70cm
Red-white Flower: 168 x 262 x 80cm
© YAYOI KUSAMA
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
Yayoi Kusama, Let’s Go to a Paradise of Glorious Tulips, 2009
More info‘The sculpture creates a captivating scene where a soaring doll figure, flowers, and dogs, rarely seen as a grouping in Kusama’s practice, are presented to form a sculptural stage on which the works interact to create the joyful whole.’
About the artist
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Japan) is one of the most important and influential artists in the history of contemporary art. She is renowned for her prolific and ground-breaking practice, spanning paintings, sculptures, performances, moving images, large-scale installations, fashion, and writing (including novels and poems). Trained in traditional Japanese painting, she moved to the United States in 1957 and soon established herself in the American and European avant-garde for her unique and radical artistic language. She returned to Japan in 1973 and has relentlessly reinvented and created art that resonates with the time in which she lives.
Recent major exhibitions include the record-breaking Yayoi Kusama at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2024) which is the most visited ticketed exhibition ever in the Gallery’s history.
Work by the artist is held in museum collections worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among numerous others. Kusama lives and works in Tokyo.