To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn’t happen without art. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
To keep art stimulating, it’s important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake’s original working or living conditions. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
I’m very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums – more like historical collections or house museums. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
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. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it’s a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word ‘curating’ to everything that involves simply making a choice – radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York’s High Line Park. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it’s what I’ve been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I’ve always talked to artists. Hans-Ulrich Obrist Read Quote
