Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2017)

Hans Ulrich Obrist (born May 21, 1968 in Weinfelden , Switzerland ) is a Swiss curator for contemporary art .

Live and act

After studying economics and politics, Hans Ulrich Obrist turned to contemporary art. He organized exhibitions in the Nietzsche House in Sils Maria and the Museum for Urban Drainage in Zurich. He curated a. a. Exhibitions in the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , the Kunsthalle Wien , the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and the New York PS1 . Obrist curated some of his early projects for the Vienna art initiative museum in progress , including around 1993 the legendary exhibition museum in progress on board with Alighiero Boetti on board Austrian Airlines , interventions in the daily newspaper Der Standard 1995, with Christian Marclay , Matt Mullican and others Lawrence Weiner , and Traveling Eye in the magazine profil 1995/1996, for example with John Baldessari , Nan Goldin , Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Gerhard Richter .

Obrist is also a member of the jury for the Eiserner Vorhang art project , which museum in progress has been implementing in the Vienna State Opera since 1998 with artists that change every year, such as David Hockney , Jeff Koons , Maria Lassnig , Rosemarie Trockel , Cy Twombly and Kara Walker . In 2005, together with Daniel Birnbaum and Gunnar B. Kvaran, he was curator of Uncertain States of America , a traveling exhibition from the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson ( USA ) with stops at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, at Bard College in New York, the Serpentine Gallery in London and the Reykjavík Art Museum.

Obrist is the founder of the Robert Walser Museum and a member of the board of trustees of the Allianz Kulturstiftung . He is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London and the author of various works of art literature.

Obrist is involved in the “Interview Project”, an extensive collection of interviews between Obrist and artists, architects, filmmakers, scientists, philosophers and musicians. Some of the interviews have been published in Artforum magazine or in book form. Longer interviews were published in the Conversation Series , several of these books with interviews with John Baldessari , Zaha Hadid , Gerhard Richter , Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster , Yoko Ono , Robert Crumb and Rem Koolhaas have already appeared.

For 2010 and 2011, Obrist was ranked second in the list of the 100 most influential people in the art industry by Art Review magazine , and in 2009 he was the most influential person.

Obrist has been a founding member of the Academy of Arts in Cologne since October 2012 . Since 2016 he has been Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London .

Publications

• Interviews: 1, charter. 2003, ISBN 88-8158-431-X .
• Gerhard Richter. 100 images. Hatje Cantz, 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1686-6 .
• Bruce Altschuler, Bruce Altshuler: Do It. Independent Curators, 1998, ISBN 0-916365-51-4 .
• Mark Godfrey, Liam Gillick: Anri Sala. Phaidon, 2006, ISBN 0-7148-4527-2 .
• Robert Violette, Gilbert: The Words of Gilbert & George: Writings, Statements, and Interviews 1969–1997: Writings and Interviews. Violette Editions, 1998, ISBN 1-900828-00-6 .
• with Rem Koolhaas : The Conversation Series No. 4. König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-86560-077-8 .
• Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2006: Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond with Arup . König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-393-7 .
• with Rem Koolhaas: Project Japan: Metabolism Talks. Taschen, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8365-2508-4 .
• Ways of curating. Penguin Books, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-241-95096-8 .
  • German: curating! CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-67364-1 .
• Maria Lassnig . Letters to Hans Ulrich Obrist. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-96098-817-5 .

Exhibitions (selection)

• Curator of the exhibition by Gregor Schneider : La maison morte ur 1985–1998. Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris .

literature

• Hans Ulrich Obrist in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Hans Ulrich Obrist  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Ulrich Obrist in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marius Babias : "Creating mobile platforms for the implementation of obsessions" ( Memento from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) - Interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist from October 1995
• Jan Winkelmann. A conversation with Hans-Ulrich Obrist , 1996 (published in Dutch in: Metropolis M. Tijdschrift over hedendaagse kunst, No. 1, February 1996)
• Texts and curated projects by Hans-Ulrich Obrist in the museum in progress
• Thomas Bärnthaler, portrait of Hans Ulrich Obrist in Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin (2015)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Project page museum in progress on board , museum in progress, Vienna
2. ↑ Project page Traveling Eye. museum in progress, Vienna
3. ^ Project page Iron Curtain , museum in progress , Vienna
4. ^ Uncertain States of America. ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reykjavík Art Museum. E-flux. November 5, 2006 to January 21, 2007.  
5. ^ The Board of Trustees. ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Allianz Cultural Foundation. 4th July 2008.  
6. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Obrist contact. Serpentine Gallery. Kensington Gardens, London
7. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Obrist ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . The Power 100th Art Review .  
8. ↑ Homepage Akademie der Künste der Welt Cologne ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 30, 2012  
9. ↑ The Art Newspaper, April 13, 2016 ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on April 14, 2016.