MIF23: You, Me and the Balloons at Factory International

You, Me and the Balloons at Factory International, City Centre, 29 June–28 August 2023, from £7.50 - Book now

Yayoi Kusama’s You, Me and the Balloons celebrates three decades of Kusama’s spectacular inflatable artworks, which are brought together for the first time in this major exhibition, opening during Manchester International Festival 2023.

Created especially for Manchester’s newest cultural space, Factory International (due to open in June 2023), Yayoi Kusama – You, Me and the Balloons is the renowned Japanese contemporary artist’s largest ever immersive collection of work. Featuring works that are over 10 metres tall and taking full advantage of the new venue’s vast warehouse space, the exhibition will invite visitors to take an exhilarating journey through Kusama’s psychedelic creations including giant dolls, spectacular tendrilled landscapes and a vast constellation of polka-dot spheres.

A global phenomenon, Kusama is adored for her surreal world of dots and pumpkins amongst other artistic motifs. Her hallucinatory paintings, sculptures, and immersive environments, such as her Infinity Mirror Rooms, take us beyond ourselves and make us feel part of something greater.