Hans Ulrich Obrist: 14 books

Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age. Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his years...

„Kuratieren“ ist zu einer coolen Parole geworden – der Begriff expandiert vom Metier der Museumsleute in alle Lebensbereiche und erfasst ein Lebensgefühl, in dem nahezu alles zur Kunstform wird. Mit unwiderstehlichem Elan schildert Hans Ulrich Obrist, Guru der Kunstszene und der wohl einflussreichste...

Nel 1991, Hans Ulrich Obrist organizza il suo primo Kitchen Show, un’esposizione nella cucina dell’appartamento dove vive a San Gallo, in Svizzera. All’epoca ha solo ventitré anni. Troppo giovane per curare mostre in musei o gallerie, ha deciso insieme a Peter Fischli e David Weiss di sperimentare...

'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series...

Part of JRP|Ringier's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s...

The role of sound and digital media in an information-based society: artists—from Steve Reich and Pierre Boulez to Chuck D and Moby—describe their work. If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix—how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines...

A unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest...

The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like last fall’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five...

Jakob Schrenk hat sechs Kuratoren ziemlich verfängliche Fragen gestellt. Etwa, was ein Kurator macht, und was die Kunst, und wie es sich mit Museen verhält - und manche von ihnen schauen sogar aus dem Fenster. Herausgekommen sind sechs spannende Interviews mit Chris Dercon, Max Hollein, Juan A. Gaitàn, Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, Hans Ulrich Obrist und WHW.

Nelle stesse ore in cui Julian Assange si dispone ad affrontare una possibile estradizione in Svezia, alfabeta2 presenta una intervista all’inventore di Wikileaks. A farlo parlare dei suoi progetti e della sua visione del mondo è Hans Ulrich Obrist, che riesce a strappare a Assange una riflessione...

Come riscrivere la storia dell'arte? Ascoltando i registi delle mostre che l'hanno promossa al grande pubblico: i curatori. Hans Ulrich Obrist con queste interviste si conferma grande intervistatore andando oltre la semplice "conversazione" e raccogliendo con precisione le preziose testimonianze...

«Se lo stato si rifiuta di comunicare con noi, se nega l’idea di un’uguaglianza universale, perché dovremmo accettarlo?»Hans Ulrich Obrist (Zurigo 1968), vulcanico curatore di mostre, nella sua attività si pone continuamente in dialogo con gli artisti e fa dell’intervista un luogo d’indagine...

Dal più famoso curatore d’arte al mondo, la prima opera che rivela come ognuno possa avvicinarsi all’arte di “curare”, attività ormai uscita dai musei ed entrata nella nostra quotidianità. «Curare è una contrattazione tra passato, presente e futuro» sostiene l’autore: vista la proliferazione...

A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend...