This large-scale retrospective features paintings, sculptures, installations, and video art by Takashi Murakami, including some of the artist’s earliest pieces which have never before been shown publicly. The artist once told Hans Ulrich Obrist: “I want to try making music. I want to awaken my brain. I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink, and I don’t smoke, so the only pleasure my brain gets is through the production of my artwork. I want some new experiences.”

This is the fourth exhibition in the series Lee Ufan and His Friends, in which international artists respond to Ufan’s practice. The works on view deploys a “zombie aesthetic” emblematic of the collective anxiety of the contemporary world and increasingly prevalent throughout pop culture.