Hans Ulrich Obrist
Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles
Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup : The Kitchen Show” in 1991, he has curated more than 350 shows.
Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) The Athens Dialogues (2018), Maria Lassnig: Letters (2020), Entrevistas Brasileiras: Volume 2 (2020), and 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021).
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“My projects always stem from talks: talks, in a way, construct reality”
Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist Archive - Chapter 3: Agnès Varda A day without seeing a tree is a waste of a day, The Tower, Archives Gallery, Level - 2, Galerie du Cerisier, Level-2, LUMA Arles, France.
My Shack of Cinema: The Greenhouse of Le Bonheur, 2018. Metal, patinated bricks and 35 mm film of a standard print of the film Le Bonheur (1964), directed by Agnès Varda. 12 terracotta pots, patinated sunflowers, LEDs with adjustable luminosity.
© Arthur Fouray
Hans Ulrich Obrist Archive, Chapter 2: Etel Adnan– Cherry Tree Gallery, The Tower, Parc des Ateliers, LUMA, Arles, France.
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