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The obliteration room 2002-present

Accession No.
2012.098
Date Created
2002-present
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
Dimensions variable
Media Category
Installation
Medium
Furniture, white paint, dot stickers
Place Created
Japan
Credit Line
Collaboration between Yayoi Kusama and Queensland Art Gallery.
Commissioned Queensland Art Gallery. Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2012

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Stories featuring this object

Hundreds of stainless steel balls floating in the QAG Watermall
LOOKING BACK AT THE APT

APT4–5

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An installation view of a room with a piano, but every surface is covered up with colourful dots.
INFINITY & OBLITERATION

Obliteration revisited

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Yayoi Kusama / The obliteration room installed for APT4 (before activation)
ESSAY

Kusama’s Obliteration room

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Exhibitions featuring this object

‘The Obliteration Room’

Dec 2014 - Apr 2015

Works by Yasumasa Morimura, Masami Teraoka and Takashi Murakami installed for ‘We Can Make Another Future’ at GOMA, December 2014 / © The artists / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘We Can Make Another Future’

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

A view of the GOMA entrance from outside, with a view of 'WONDERSTRUCK' signage between trees

'Wonderstruck'

Jun 2025 - Oct 2025

Other works in this medium

Artwork The sick classroom this artwork made of 27 painted, wooden sculptures; eight wooden desks; 26 student accessories; one wooden table; one wooden chair; 15 inkjet prints on paper, ed. 1/5; single-channel video: 13:19 minutes, colour, sound, ed. 1/5, created in 2012-01-01

The sick classroom 2012-13

Artwork Bilas (ornamentation) from "Koromb (spirit house)" this artwork made of Kunda (chains): woven cane; tambuwan (ancestor mask decorations): canvas, synthetic polymer paint, cane, polystyrene balls and raffia, created in 2012-01-01

Bilas (ornamentation) from "Koromb (spirit house)" 2012

Artwork Verdejo moderno this artwork made of Oil and coloured wool embroidery on velvet; oil with applied stencils, collage, slashes and knitted tea cosy on canvas; two dead standard rose trees; applied black tape, created in 1992-01-01

Verdejo moderno 1992

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