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" At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
New York
New
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" The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. "
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" I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture. "
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You
" 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. "
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" I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted. "
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" In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. "
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Earth
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" It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this. "
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" I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time. "
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Voice
" I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful. "
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People
" Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape. "
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Up
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" Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series. "
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Work
Think
" Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. "
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Velocity
Somehow
Connected
" Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them. "
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Help
Role
Projects
" To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. "
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Open
New
Important
" I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline. "
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Think
Wake Up
About
" I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery. "
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City
Carry
Knowledge
" At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock. "
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Moment
Book
History
" From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Building
Learning
Research
" 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. "
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Bridge
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Partner
" I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast. "
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Breakfast
Always
Coffee
" 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. "
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Transformed
Life
Kitchen
" I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti. "
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Go
Started
Switzerland
" I'm trying to expand the notion of curating. Exhibitions need not only take place in galleries, need not only involve displaying objects. Art can appear where we expect it least. "
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Need
Expect
" At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue. "
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Time
Story
" There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist. "
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" To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art. "
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" Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. "
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Model
London
" When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways. "
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Started
" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "
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Any
Museum
" For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life. "
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Almost
Always
Been
" I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas. "
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