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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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" 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. "

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Transformed

Life

Kitchen

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

" Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them. "

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

" Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis. "

" 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. "

" My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work. "

" 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

" For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas. "

" One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago. "

" 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

" The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. "

" 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. "

" Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast. "

" There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist. "

" 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. "

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

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

" To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts. "

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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

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