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" 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
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing. "
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" There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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Learn
Myself
" 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. "
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Started
Out
" 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. "
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Always
Day
" I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. "
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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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" 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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" Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. "
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Moment
" 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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" Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone. "
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Gone
Kind
" 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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Always
Been
" During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. "
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" Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream. "
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" I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. "
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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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