Dominique Hurth and Imogen Stidworthy: On Conversations

Monday, January 12, 2026, 7 p.m.
ARTISTS' CONVERSATION
With Dominique Hurth and Imogen Stidworthy
Language: English

Keep awake, keep awake, artist,
Do not give in to sleep…
You are eternity’s hostage
And prisoner of time.
(Boris Pasternak, quoted by Andrei Tarkovsky)

The artists Dominique Hurth and Imogen Stidworthy share a fifteen-year-long artistic dialogue. Over this period, each has developed her own distinct methods and practices of artistic research, which are at the same time connected with each other and with others.

During an artists’ conversation taking place on the occasion of Hurth’s current exhibition at the Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV), they explore the significance of these dialogues for their work. Sharing pieces of other artists’ writings, exhibition documentation, and works by themselves, the conversation will also look at the notion of containment of research within a sculptural work and the shift of the document into material for an installation practice, which is at the core of Hurth’s exhibition at the WKV.

Stidworthy’s solo exhibition at the WKV took place in 2018 under the title Dialogues with People. Among other works, she presented her installation Balayer: A Map of Sweeping (2024), for which Hurth lent her voice.

About the event, Dominique Hurth writes:

“Imogen’s voice was somehow present before I ever met her. The English version of Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovksy rested on my bookshelf many years before I met her, not knowing that it was her mother who translated the filmmaker’s book. I like to think that she was already here, in my living room, through the work of her mother. 

If literally translated from Russian, the book’s title should read Captured Time yet it is perhaps already in the published title of the book that both Imogen’s and my practices may converse – in sculpting as a gesture, the capture of time as an urgency (either in the works themselves or in the contents they tackle), (mis)translation, materiality and the sinking into vocabularies or linguistics, or simply put in: relentlessness. 

Tackling upon 15 years of conversations, the evening will look at notion of collegiality, dialogue, reciprocity, and shared references – and perhaps our mothers, or rather: the presence of many others in what may appear a singular artistic practice.”