September
Berlin opens the season, Amsterdam opens Kusama without her, and Lyon starts dreaming.
Yayoi Kusama died in Tokyo in mid-August, at 97. The retrospective that travelled from the Beyeler through Museum Ludwig reaches the Stedelijk on 11 September as a posthumous tribute. Berlin Art Week runs first. Lyon's biennale opens on the 19th, and Manifesta enters its final weeks in the Ruhr.
Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama
The final stop of the retrospective that travelled from the Beyeler through Museum Ludwig, and the first major museum show of her work to open since her death in August, at 97. Two floors, seven decades, early works never before seen in Europe, and a new mirror room made for the occasion. The museum now calls it a posthumous tribute. Her studio says she painted until her final days.
Also this month
18th Biennale de Lyon
Curated by Catherine Nichols
To pass from one dream to another, split across three main venues given three dimensions, with Walter Benjamin and Robert Filliou supplying the theory. More than thirty nationalities, and the list is still moving.