Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation

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Shigeko Kubota’s Jogging Lady, 1993, in New Humans at the New Museum.

Skater, 1991-92 by Shigeko Kubota was modeled after figure skater, Midori Ito, who won the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympic games. 📷Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021 Photography Kenji Morita © Estate of Shigeko Kubota. #shigekokubota #skvaf #winterolympics #videosculpture

ART BASEL QATAR – Shigeko Kubota Booth D106, February 5 - 7, 2026 Forming the foundational imagery of her work "Duchampiana: Video Chess," Shigeko Kubota documented the 1968 "Reunion" chess match between composer John Cage and artist Marcel Duchamp through still photographs for the Japanese arts journal Bijutsu Techo (Art Notebook). In the following years, she recaptured these static images on tape using a PortaPak, animating them to form the basis of the video "Marcel Duchamp and John Cage" (1972) and the video sculpture "Duchampiana: Video Chess" (1968-1975). Colorized and layered against the performance's live soundtrack, Kubota's work expanded photographic documentation into a vision of video as a hybrid medium capable of new aesthetic approaches. SHIGEKO KUBOTA Duchampiana: Video Chess, 1968-1975 Single-channel color-synthesized video (color, sound), twelve-inch LCD monitor, plywood, glass, plastic chess pieces and text 29 x 25 x 25 inches (73.7 x 63.5 x 63.5 cm) Reunion: Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, 1968 Black and white photographs 40 15/16 x 55 3/8 inches (104 x 140.7 cm); 54 5/16 x 40 11/16 inches (138 x 103.3 cm); 40 7/16 x 52 13/16 inches (102.7 x 134.1 cm) Photography by Nicholas Knight; Video excerpt courtesy of the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation For inquiries, please contact [email protected] #ArtBaselQatar #FergusMcCaffrey #ShigekoKubota

Fergus McCaffrey is pleased to announce our participation in the inaugural edition of @artbasel Art Basel Qatar with a solo presentation by Shigeko Kubota. We are located at Booth D106 and open to the public February 5 – 7, 2026. This presentation centers around Kubota's pioneering video sculpture "Duchampiana: Video Chess" (1968-1975), a major example of the artist’s fascination with hybrid media, at the intersection between video, music, and performance. Kubota’s video sculpture references "Reunion," a chess match played between composer John Cage (1912-1992) and artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) in 1968. ""Reunion"" was an indeterminate event, performed by Cage, Duchamp and his wife Teeny, that involved playing a game of chess on an electronic chessboard created by Lowell Cross (1938-). As the game progressed, the moves of the players activated four sonic compositions and distributed them to eight speakers surrounding the audience. In Kubota’s "Video Chess," a video consisting of a compilation of manipulated photographic slides, accompanied by the live performance soundtrack, is played on a monitor below a glass chessboard. These filtered images are drawn from the 1968 artist’s book "Marcel Duchamp and John Cage and Reunion," which joined Kubota’s documentary photographs, Cage’s mesostic poems, and a vinyl record of the live performance soundtrack. SHIGEKO KUBOTA Duchampiana: Video Chess, 1968-1975 Single-channel color-synthesized video (color, sound), twelve-inch LCD monitor, plywood, glass, plastic chess pieces and text 29 x 25 x 25 inches (73.7 x 63.5 x 63.5 cm) Photograph courtesy of the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation. For inquiries, please contact [email protected] #ArtBaselQatar #FergusMccaffrey #ShigekoKubota

New to Stories, Stella shares her connection to & admiration for the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation / @skvaf . 6397 Pre-Spring ‘26 collection captured by @petersutherland at @skvaf last May in NYC . Read more now at 6397news.com/blogs/stories ❤️‍🔥

Over the past year, the foundation has reached an exciting series of milestones, from major exhibitions and international media recognition to new digital initiatives and expanded research resources all helping to carry Shigeko Kubota’s legacy forward. Her work continues to shape and inspire global conversations around video art. Read more in our Annual Newsletter! ✨🗞️ 📷 Shigeko Kubota, Mountain Climbing in Japan. Courtesy Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation © Estate of Shigeko Kubota . . . . . . . #shigekokubota #skvaf #shigekokubotavideoartfoundation #digitalarchives #hahs #historicartistshomesandstudios #artnews #nyc

Explore the Shigeko Kubota and Nam June Paik Mercer Street Loft with our free digital guide available through @bloombergconnects ! Our guide takes you behind the scenes of Shigeko and Nam June’s historic Mercer Street Loft, sharing stories about their living and working space, offering a closer look into the foundation, our archives, and highlighting Shigeko’s video sculptures currently on view. Find a link to the guide in our bio. #bloombergconnects #shigekokubota #hahs #historicartistshomesandstudios #soho #audioguide #nyc

NOW OPEN! 🙌 🎫 Accessible by reservation only, book your ticket! Link in bio Guess of honor, Shigeko Kubota presented by @fergusmccaffrey and @skvaf 📆 October 21-26 ⛪️ @chapellesaintlouis - 47 bd de l’hôpital, Paris Photo: GRAYSC

Shigeko Kubota Fergus McCaffrey / @skvaf @fergusmccaffrey @offscreen_paris

Fergus McCaffrey is proud to announce the participation of Shigeko Kubota as the Guest of Honor of the 4th edition of @Offscreen_Paris . On view from October 21 – 26, 2025 at La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, OFFSCREEN will feature a selection of notable works spanning Kubota's five-decade career. Over her five-decade career, Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015) was instrumental in elevating video to fine art status and pioneering the development of video sculpture. An active participant in the international Fluxus movement, Kubota forged a lyrical confluence of the personal and the technological. Strongly influenced by—and personally acquainted with—Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, Kubota’s work encompasses several interconnected themes: installations paying homage to Duchampian ideas, works referencing Japanese spiritual traditions of water and mountains, and an ongoing video chronicle of her personal life. Her work is held in prestigious collections including The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, and has been exhibited at major international venues from the Whitney Museum to Documenta and the Venice Biennale. On October 21, OFFSCREEN and Artforum Atelier will host a live conversation discussing Shigeko Kubota’s legacy, moderated by Artforum Editor in Chief, Tina Rivers Ryan. The talk will feature panelists Jordan Carter, Curator & Co-Department Head at Dia Art Foundation; Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance at MOMA; and Margit Rosen, Head of Collections, Archives & Research, ZKM | Center for Art and Media. Mary Lucier, Portrait of Shigeko Kubota with Video Poem, 1975 Courtesy Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation © Estate of Shigeko Kubota Shigeko Kubota, Video Poem, 1970-75 Standard-definition video (color, silent; 5:28 minutes), cathode tube monitor, nylon, fan Dimensions variable Installation view Shigeko Kubota: Video Mirror, Fergus McCaffrey, New York, November 7 – December 21, 2024 #offscreen #shigekokubota #fergusmccaffrey

Video Relief, 1979–81 Shigeko Kubota Three plywood panels, two with round lenses and one with a television screen covered with calligraphy. Behind each panel is a three-inch black-and-white monitor, each showing the single-channel black-and-white videotape of Shigeko in Berlin (1979). The viewer is reflected in the lenses of the side panels. Looking through my Video Relief lenses–mirror double images like my past and my present. “Are you sure that this is you, Shigeko? Or is this you who used to be?” Between reality and mirage–fantasy, a narcissistic self analyst. You will never get bored, watching my Video Relief, you will see your self, how many faces do you have in your life? . . . . . . Photo #1: SKVAF archives Photos #2, #3: the American Museum of the Moving image, Shigeko Kubota, Video Sculpture #shigekokubota #shigekokubotavideoartfoundation #mercerstreet #skvaf #archive #soho #videosculpture #videorelief #installation