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" 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. "

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" 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

Focused

Always

Game

" I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. "

" 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

Power

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast. "

" 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. "

" Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone. "

" Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that. "

" I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. "

" Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. "

" My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it. "

" My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated. "

" I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline. "

" I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years. "

" 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

Unusual

House

" 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. "

" Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Started

Switzerland

" Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Economy

Growth

" Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Situation

Landscape

" In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. "

" 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. "

" When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew. "

" 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. "

" For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life. "