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" There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist. "
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Than
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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them. "
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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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" In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again. "
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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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" 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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" I don't wake up in the morning and think about Franz Kline. "
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" 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
" 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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Looking
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" 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. "
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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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" The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality. "
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21st-Century
Reality
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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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" 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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" Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity. "
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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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" Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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