Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.
Wax model (2012)
Yayoi Kusama in Speaking Portraits
Narcissus Garden (2009), Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens (2017), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art.
Conceptual work by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960. Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void).
Revived Cabaret Voltaire on the Spiegelgasse street 1 in Zürich, 2011
Original plaque of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich
Original poster of the first function of the Cabaret Voltaire, by Marcel Słodki (1916)