Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is responsible for some of the most iconic works of sculpture in the world. Throughout Kusama’s prolific career her favourite motifs of pumpkins, polka dots and nets formed of infinitely repeating loops have taken the shape of room-filling installations, performance pieces, painting, poetry and large and small sculpture.

Known for work accumulating mass amounts of abandoned clothes, old photographs and other personal detritus, French artist Christian Boltanski’s work conversed with death and drew on themes of chance, loss and memory…