Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Hans-Ulrich Obristis an art curator, critic and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of The Interview Project, an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is also co-editor of the Cahiers d'art revue...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionCritic
CountrySwitzerland
art includes showing
To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
famous gallery
My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
morning
I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline.
disperse
Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
build creating curator motivator sparring
I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
dialogue focused invent teaching
For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.
art enjoy immerse job others talk
My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
age digital hugely mapping relevant suddenly
In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
ancient fell love monastery surrounded
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
cases intense ongoing
I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.
Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.
amazing art becomes cities fair form happens
I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
ephemeral magic
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.