SOLO, GROUP EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES WITH YAYOI KUSAMA in EUROPE
GroupThis abridged list of group exhibitions, held mainly in Europe, gives an idea of the network that was built by the German, Italian and Dutch artists in de late fifties early seventies. It shows the important ZERO centers: in the Netherlands (The Hague and Rotterdam), Germany (Düsseldorf and Frankfurt) and Italy (Milan and Rome). Kusama participated in all these exhibitions, several times with the same works. Udo Kultermann was the first curator, in 1960, to present Yayoi Kusama together with ZERO artists in a European museum in the exhibition Monochrome Malerei (Monochrome Painting); Willem Sandberg subsequently opened the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to an initiative by Henk Peeters, who included Kusama in 1962 and 1965 in both Nul exhibitions. Lucio Fontana invited Kusama to Milan, where she worked in his studio, and showed her work in Italy, as part of the “retrospective” ZERO Avantgarde. The German artists included her work in a traveling ZERO show in Philadelphia and Washington. Christian Megert was on his turn, responsible for proposing Kusama to several institutes in Switzerland.
1960
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Monochrome Malerei (g) 1961 Wolframs-Eschenbach, Deutschordensschloss, Internationale Malerei (g) 1960-61 Trier, Städtisches Museum, Avantgarde 61 (g) 1962 The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Nieuwe tendenzen (g) Arnhem, Galerie A, Accrochage 1962 (g) Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, expositie nul (g) Leiden, Leids Akademisch Kunstcentrum, Nieuwe tendenzen (g) Antwerp, Galerie Dorekens, Grote meesters kleine formaten (great masters small formats) (g) Rotterdam, Kunstcentrum 't Venster, Anno 62, plastiek grafiek en tekeningen (g) 1963 Amsterdam, Galerie Amstel 47, Panorama van de nieuwe tendenzen (g) 1964 Rotterdam, Galerie Delta, mikro-nul/zero (g) Velp, Jeugdfestival, mikro-nul/zero (g) Amsterdam, Galerie Amstel 47, mikro-nul/zero (g) Prague, International Gallery Prague, Artists from the OREZ gallery (g) Philadelphia / Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, ZERO. An Exhibition of European Experimental Art (g) 1965 Washington D.C., The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, ZERO. An Exhibition of European Experimental Art (g) Bern, Galerie Aktuell, Aktuel 65 (g) Amsterdam, Galerij De Bezige Bij, De nieuwe stijl, werk van de internationale avantgarde (g) The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, De nieuwe stijl, werk van de internationale avantgarde (g) Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Nul negentienhonderd vijf en zestig (g) Venice, Galleria del Cavallino, Zero Avantgarde 1965 (g) The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Facets of contemporary eroticism (g) Turin, Galleria Il Punto, Zero Avantgarde (g) Amsterdam, RAI, Amsterdam, stand nr. 416 Modana N.V., Intercontex fair (g) Lincoln / Massachusetts, De Cordova Museum, White on white (g) Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Den Inre och den Yttre Rymden (g) 1966 The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Facetten van nieuwe tendenzen (g) Andover / Massachusetts, Addison Gallery, White on white (g) Scheveningen, Scheveningen Pier / The Hague, Zero op zee (canceled) (g) The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Zero op zee (Zero on Sea) (g) Kunsthalle Bern, Weiss auf Weiss (g) Venice, 33rd Venice Biennale (not official participation) (g) Berlin, Galerie Potsdamer, Total-Realismus (g) 1967 Rotterdam, Galerie Delta, Objecten: Made in U.S.A. (g) Frankfurt am Main, Studio Galerie, Serielle Formationen (g) The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Kusama / Schoonhoven (g) Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Balans (g) 1968 Enschede, Kunstzaal Enschedese Kunstenaarssocieteit, Yayoi Kusama / Paul Damste (g) 1969 Frankfürt, Galerie Ursula Lichter, DynamoZero (g) 1970 Amsterdam, Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, ZERO Onuitgevoerd (g) |
Solo1962
Antwerp, Galerie Dorekens, Yayoi Kusama (s) 1965 The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Yayoi Kusama (s) 1966 Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Driving Image Show (s) Gelsenkirchen, Halfsmannshof, Driving Image Show (s) Essen, Galerie Thelen, Driving Image Show Bern (s) 1967 The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Love Room (s) 1968 Loenersloot, Galerie Mickery, Yayoi Kusama, images, with food an sex (s) 1970 The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Cage Paintings Woman (s) Actions and performances1967
The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Body Paint Festival (p) Delft, Sociëteit Novum, Body Paint Festival (p) Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Body Paint Festival (p) Amsterdam, Birds’ Club, Body Paint Festival (p) Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Body Paint Festival (p) 1970 Amsterdam, Dam Square, Orgy Happening (p) Amsterdam, Dam Square, Fashion show (p) Venice, 35rd Venice Biennale, Fashion show (not official participation) (p) The Hague, Internationale Galerij Orez, Fashion show (p) |
