MIYAMOTO, Kazuko; ENDERBY, Emma (ed.); KROGH CHRISTENSEN, Sofie (ed.); SCHERRIEBLE, Lara (ed.)
Kazuko Miyamoto: Conversations

A leading figure in the Post-Minimal and feminist movements in New York since 1964, Japanese-American artist Kazuko Miyamoto (b. 1942, Tokyo) elaborated overs the 1970s and 1980s ambitious spatial installations – notably the String Constructions. Meeting artist Sol LeWitt in 1968 and becoming his long-term assistant, Miyamoto became crucial in the production and development of LeWitt’s cube sculptures and wall drawings. Yet, her own installations, i.e., in her sculptures made of string and nails, and her paperwork installations, took on a much more performative sensibility, looking at the body’s relationship to space, material, and politics of labor and display. Beginning of the mid-1970s, the artist organized presentations at the artist-run A.I.R. Gallery from 1974 to 1983, which was the first exhibition space run by and dedicated to women artists. As the founder of Gallery Onetwentyeight, Miyamoto also played a vital role in promoting feminist art and collective art practices.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at KW, Berlin, this book features newly commissioned conversations and contributions by key persons who’ve lived and worked with Miyamoto throughout her career, as an attempt to circle in on her very distinctive and embodied process of working as well as on the ephemeral quality of her works. The conversations span the different decisive phases of Miyamoto’s career and their inherent turns – and count voices like i.e., Carol LeWitt, Eizan Miyamoto, Senga Nengudi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adrian Piper, as well as archival documents from A.I.R. Gallery and more.

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Published by KW / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2025
Design by Mark El-khatib studio, London
Monographs / Conversations / Documents / Art History