Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zürich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he served as Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Beginning with World Soup (The Kitchen Show), St Gallen, Switzerland (1991), Obrist has curated more than 300 exhibitions, including the “Do It” series (1993–), whose manifestations now number fifty; Take Me (I'm Yours), London (1995), Paris (2015) and New York (2016); and the Swiss Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Biennale, Venice (2014). He has also co-curated the “Cities on The Move” series (1996–2000), Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium (1999); the operatic group exhibition Il Tempo del Postino, Manchester (2007) and Basel (2009); and “The 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Rooms” series. Obrist’s i, which protests the disappearance of handwriting in the digital age, has been taking place on Instagram since 2013 (@hansulrichobrist).

In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015 he was awarded the International Folkwang Prize. Most recently he was honored by the Appraisers Association of America with the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Arts. Obrist has lectured internationally, and is contributing editor to several magazines and journals. His recent publications include A Brief History of Curating (2008), Do It: The Compendium (2013), Mapping it Out (2014), Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) and The Athens Dialogues (2018).

Image: Hans Ulrich Obrist by Juergen Teller

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