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Hans Ulrich Obrist

Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles

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© Victor & Simon / Joana Luz

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup : The Kitchen Show” in 1991, he has curated more than 350 shows.

 Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) The Athens Dialogues (2018), Maria Lassnig: Letters (2020), Entrevistas Brasileiras: Volume 2 (2020), and 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021).

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Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives, Chapter 5: Maria Lassnig ’Living with art stops one wilting!’, 2025-2026, The Tower, Cherry Tree Gallery, LUMA Arles, France. Alice Dos Reis, Philipp Timischl, Maja Vukoje, Renée Levi.

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“My projects always stem from talks: talks, in a way, construct reality”
Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives / Chapter 4: Gustav Metzger – All of Us Together
From June 30, 2024 to May 4, 2025
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Symposium: Tales of Superstition and Magic 2024
From December 13, 2024 to December 15, 2024
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Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives / Chapter 5: Maria Lassnig ‘Living with art stops one wilting!’
From May 1, 2025 to April 5, 2026
Symposium: Tales of Superstition and Magic
Symposium: Tales of Superstition and Magic 2025
From December 12, 2025 to December 14, 2025
Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist about Etel Adnan
Fifteen hours of interviews with Etel Adnan are being shown for the first time to the public. The numerous discussions between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Etel Adnan, testify above all the depth, the accuracy, and the longevity of their continuous exchange, from 2007 until her passing on 14 November 2021.
In this interview, Hans Ulrich Obrist talks about the exhibition devoted to this archive, which reveals Etel Adnan's many passions, from writing to drawing, from painting to poetry, and especially her love of the world

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