At Fondation Beyeler
Inside Yayoi Kusama's Polka Dot Infinity Mirrored Room
VernissageTV visits the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, taking its camera inside Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, part of the first solo exhibition in Switzerland on the famed Japanese artist.
Spanning 70 years and consisting of more than 300 works, Yayoi Kusama (on display until January 25, 2026) is a career- and globe-spanning exhibition, tracing the artist's career from the early 1950s in her hometown of Matsumoto, to her avant-garde works in New York in the 1960s and 70s, and to the signature polka dot and other creations she has made since returning to Japan in the 1970s. Some of her most popular artworks are the Infinity Mirrored Rooms that “pull viewers into perceptual and emotional states of suspension and immersion,” per the Fondation Beyeler. Monumental in scale, the specially made Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe on the lowest level of the museum allows visitors to meander through polka dot, tentacle-like shapes whose reflections “create the labyrinthine atmosphere of an artificial primeval forest,” as this short film from VernissageTV captures: