Yayoi Kusama // Coffee Cup, 1985

  • Yayoi Kusama, Coffee Cup, 1985. Screenprint, 53 × 45 cm, edition of 100. Depicts Kusama’s playful rendering of a coffee cup with bold patterning and vibrant colours, reflecting her signature repetitive style.
    Coffee Cup, 1985
    Screenprint, 53 × 45 cm, Edition of 100
    © Yayoi Kusama.
     
    Yayoi Kusama’s Coffee Cup (1985) is a screenprint measuring 53 × 45 cm, produced in an edition of 100. The work reimagines a familiar domestic object through Kusama’s bold, graphic language. With simplified form and rhythmic patterning, the everyday cup becomes a symbol of both comfort and surreal transformation.
     
    In this print, the contours of the cup are animated by Kusama’s signature use of repetition, turning a mundane subject into a hypnotic image. The composition reflects her fascination with elevating ordinary objects into sites of psychological depth, where patterns suggest infinity and the dissolution of self within the everyday.
     
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  • “Accumulation is the result of my obsession, and through it I create a world of my own.”

     — Yayoi Kusama

    As with many of her editioned works from the 1980s, Coffee Cup exemplifies Kusama’s ability to merge domestic familiarity with the extraordinary. The print transforms a simple object into a universal emblem of obsession and endurance, reinforcing her unique capacity to see infinity in the most commonplace of things.