Life in Progress by Hans Ulrich Obrist
World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of his life, and his journey towards art and artists
When Hans Ulrich was six years old, he was knocked down by a speeding car as he was crossing the street. Hospitalized for weeks, a sense of urgency was instilled in him. Enraptured by the healing powers of art from this young age, he began to travel across Europe on night trains, visiting artists’ studios.
In a book that is part unputdownable coming-of-age story, part tour de force of the contemporary art world, part user’s manual on how to live a life driven by curiosity, conversation, and not least hope, Obrist takes us through the formative experiences that made him. From his first exhibition in his Zurich kitchen to penning 250 postcards while trapped by an avalanche in Val Bregaglia, Life in Progress is an enchanting ode to the healing properties that engaging with art and the people around us boundlessly affords.
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Ways of Curating
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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
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Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curat But Were Afraid to Ask
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Ai Weiwei Speaks
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Words of Gilbert and George
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Remember to Dream!
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Sharp Tongues, Loose Lips, Open Eyes, Ears to the Ground
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The Richter Interviews
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Do It
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Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Ai Weiwei
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Formulas for Now
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The Hockney Interviews
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Douglas Coupland
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The Conversation Series 16. Gustav Metzger. Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Richard Wentworth
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JR
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Pipilotti Rist
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Formafantasma
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Lois Dodd
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London Dialogues
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Cerith Wyn Evans
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Olafur Eliasson/Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews
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Signs of Our Times: From Calligraphy to Calligraffiti
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Gwangju Folly II
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Fabric-ation
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The Zaha Hadid Interviews
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Wael Shawky
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Gerhard Richter: Sils
His words come out in an almost comical torrent, citations bobbing up and ideas colliding... ArtReview named him the most powerful figure in the field, but Obrist seems less to stand atop the art world than to race around, up, over, and through it * The New Yorker *
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was a curator at 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 300 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) and The Athens Dialogues (2018).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241712207 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241712203 |
| Title | Life in Progress |
| Author | Hans Ulrich Obrist |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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