52 Quotes by Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.

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

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.