M+’s critically acclaimed Special Exhibition Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now concluded with over 280,000 visitations and three of Yayoi Kusama’s large-scale works continue to be exhibited at M+

M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, is pleased to announce its critically acclaimed Special Exhibition Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now concluded yesterday and had received over 280,000 visitations including local and international audiences since its opening on 12 November 2022. Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now was the first special exhibition presented by M+ since its opening in November 2021.

Co-curated by Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator, M+ and Mika Yoshitake, independent curator, Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now will be on tour to Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain for slightly over three months from 27 June to 8 October 2023. Nearly 200 works exhibited in M+ will be shipped to Spain for the exhibition. Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will be the most extensive retrospective of Kusama in Spain in the past ten years.

Meanwhile, the three popular large-scale works from Yayoi Kusama will continue to be displayed at M+. Visitors can access Dots Obsession—Aspiring to Heaven’s Love (2022) and the site-specific installation Death of Nerves (2022) commissioned by M+ at B2 with General Admission tickets. Moreover, all visitors can view the two large sculptures, Pumpkin (2022) by Yayoi Kusama at the Main Hall on G/F free of charge.

Following the conclusion of Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, from Tuesday, 16 May 2023 and until further notice, holders of General Admission tickets can access all M+ galleries (except West Gallery) including Found Space and The Studio at B2, East Galleries, Focus Gallery, Sigg Galleries, South Galleries and The Cabinet on 2/F, as well as Cissy Pui-Lai Pao and Shinichiro Watari Galleries from 9 June 2023 onwards where Angela Su proudly presents: Lauren O—The Greatest Levitator in the Polyhedric Cosmos of Time will be on display until 8 October 2023. Admission to the museum building’s B1 level, Pumpkin (2022), and Hong Kong: Here and Beyond in the Main Hall Gallery on Ground Floor will remain free of charge.

Visitors are reminded that Hong Kong: Here and Beyond that captures Hong Kong’s transformation from the post-war decades to the present day, and Beeple: HUMAN ONE, a dynamic work showing the first human born inside the metaverse currently on display at the Focus Gallery will both end on Sunday, 11 June 2023. For more information, please visit the M+ website.

M+ General Admission tickets are available for online purchase via the M+ website, West Kowloon Cultural District website, West Kowloon Cultural District App, Cityline, China Travel Service (Hong Kong) Limited, Fliggy, Klook and Trip.com. M+ Members and Patrons enjoy free access to exhibitions included in the General Admission. For more information on M+ ticket arrangements, please refer to the fact sheet at Appendix 1.

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About M+
M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, it is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. M+ is a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.

About the West Kowloon Cultural District
The West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest and most ambitious cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong on forty hectares of reclaimed land located alongside Victoria Harbour. With a varied mix of theatres, performance spaces, and museums, the West Kowloon Cultural District will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances, and cultural events, providing twenty-three hectares of public open space, including a two-kilometre waterfront promenade.