about

Through drawings, objects, texts and installations, Dominique Hurth’s practice deals with the mechanisms of memory and history, how it is constructed and narrated. The starting-point for new artistic researches is often a document, that is re-manifested via archiving, translation, quotation, re-enactement or reconstruction. She questions the shifts from narrative to cultural memory, looks at unresolved historical figures and events, and observes from diverse starting-points the gaps and dislocations of references that occur from original to copy.

Born in Colmar, France (1985), Dominique Hurth received a BA in Fine Arts from the Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, 2005; a MA in Art in Context from UdK, Berlin, 2007; and received her MA in Visual Arts (DNSAP) from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris in 2009 (atelier C. Boltanski). 2010-11 she has been awarded a research and production bursary at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL.

She has exhibited at various museums, galleries, and off-site projects in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Russia and Bosnia, and has also contributed to several art and culturally related publications internationally.

Dominique Hurth lives and works in Berlin and Maastricht.

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