Cristina Iglesias, 2025 © Cristina Iglesias, VEGAP, Barcelona. Photo: Álex Iturralde; James Lingwood with Cristina Iglesias’ ‘Turbulence’ (2023), La Pedrera, Barcelona, 2025 © Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera. Photo: Pau Fabregat

Talks

In Conversation: Cristina Iglesias and James Lingwood

Thu 16 October 2025
10 – 11.30 am
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Join us for a conversation with artist Cristina Iglesias and curator James Lingwood, moderated by Professor Jo Applin, in celebration of the exhibition ‘Cristina Iglesias. The Shore’ at Hauser & Wirth London.

This fall will mark the first exhibition of Cristina Iglesias at Hauser & Wirth since joining the gallery’s roster. Combining the conventional matter of sculpture—familiar materials such as glass, steel, bronze—with non-traditional materials like water and sound, Iglesias produces works as powerfully mystical as they are muscular. This exhibition features three new large-scale bronze works, each taking a unique porous, rock-like form with water trickling and flowing inside, their meteorite appearance symbolizing the collision of outer space and Earth.

  • 9.30 am: Exhibition private view

  • 10 am: Talk begins

  • 11 am: Talk ends

Tickets are free, however advance booking is essential and late arrivals will not be admitted. Please note that seats will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

The exhibition is on view through Saturday 20 December 2025.

About Cristina Iglesias
Over more than four decades, Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias has defined a unique sculptural vocabulary, creating immersive and experiential environments that reference and unite architecture, literature, psychology, mechanics, natural elements and site-specific content. Guided by a profound cultural and historical sensitivity, as well as a deep concern for the natural world, Iglesias’ works poetically redefine the viewer’s relationship to time and place.

About James Lingwood
James Lingwood is a curator, producer and writer based in London, UK. Together with Michael Morris, he was Co-Director of Artangel, a groundbreaking agency responsible for producing 150 projects with artists, filmmakers, composers and writers around the world from 1991 – 2024. Lingwood is the curator of the major solo exhibition ‘Cristina Iglesias. Passages at La Pedrera in Barcelona, Spain, on view from 9 October 2025 – 25 January 2026. He worked closely with Iglesias on two of her most important permanent works: Tres Aguas, commissioned by Artangel for the City of Toledo in Spain (2014) and Hondalea, commissioned by the City of San Sebastian in Spain (2021).

About Professor Jo Applin
Jo Applin is a Walter H. Annenberg Professor in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. She has published widely on modern and contemporary art; her most recent was ‘Lee Lozano: Not Working’ (2018), published by Yale University Press. In 2025, Applin curated the exhibition ‘Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams’ at The Courtauld Gallery in London, UK.

Photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials.