Rubell Museum’s inaugural installation for its new campus features major work by Yayoi Kusama

The Rubell Museum announced that its new campus will open on December 4, 2019 with a museum-wide installation of works that chronicle key artists, moments, and movements in vital arts centers over the past 50 years, from the East Village to Beijing, Los Angeles to Leipzig, and São Paulo to Tokyo. The inaugural exhibition encompasses more than 300 works by 100 artists, providing one of the most far-ranging museum exhibitions of contemporary art ever presented. Drawn entirely from their expansive collection of over 7,200 works by more than 1,000 artists, the exhibition features defining and seminal works by artists whom the Rubells championed as they were first emerging (often becoming the first collectors to acquire their work) and those who had been overlooked. The new Rubell Museum is located in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami, less than a mile from its original home in Wynwood. The new space is closer to downtown and readily accessible via public transportation. 

Retracing the Rubells' journeys to both major and emerging art centers around the world, the inaugural exhibition includes surveys of artists working in proximity to one another and deep dives into individual careers, tracing influences and revealing parallels among contemporaries and across generations. Installed within the museum's 40 galleries and its public spaces, highlights from the installation include: 

• Two immersive installations by Yayoi Kusama, including Where the Lights in My Heart Go (2016), and INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER (2017). 

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Image: Yayoi Kusama, Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016