Victoria Miro presents Where the Lights in My Heart Go by Yayoi Kusama, a work of dazzling complexity conjured solely by ambient light.
Throughout her career, Yayoi Kusama has developed a unique and diverse body of work that, highly personal in nature, connects profoundly with global audiences. Central to Kusama’s practice are the artist's acclaimed Infinity Mirror Rooms – immersive environments which create the illusion of infinite space.
Where the Lights in My Heart Go is the first Infinity Mirror Room by Kusama to rely solely on ambient light to create an experience of entering an expansive cosmos. It is a work of two distinct characters. While its mirrored exterior both reflects and appears to merge with its surroundings, punctured with small holes it becomes, on the inside, a fathomless space filled by dots of light.
The artist has referred to the effect the work produces as being akin to a ‘subtle planetarium’ – a space in which to ponder the mysteries of the physical and metaphysical universe.
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Yayoi Kusama, Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016Installation view, Victoria Miro's waterside garden, London -
‘My art has always expressed the strong universal desire of humanity to experience the beauty of life and the marvellous mystery of the universe.’
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A major Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler
The Fondation Beyeler is the first museum in Switzerland to devote a retrospective to renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Organised in close collaboration with the artist and her studio, the exhibition offers a complete overview of Kusama’s more than seven-decade career.
On view 12 October 2025–25 January 2026, the exhibition is jointly organised by Fondation Beyeler with Museum Ludwig in Cologne (where it will be on view 14 March–2 August 2026) and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (11 September 2026–17 January 2027).
Image: Installation view, Yayoi Kusama, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, 2025. Photography: Mark Niedermann. © YAYOI KUSAMA
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