Quotes from Hans Ulrich Obrist

Whatever you do, do something else.

The very idea of an exhibition is that we live in a world with each other, in which it is possible to make arrangements, associations, connections and wordless gestures, and, through this mise en scène, to speak.

I have always believed that it is the artist who creates a work, but a society that turns it into a work of art. - Johannes Cladders

I don't believe in the creativity of the curator. I don't think that the exhibition-maker has brilliant ideas around which the works of artists must fit. Instead, the process always starts with a conversation, in which I ask the artists what their unrealized projects are, and then the task is to find the means to realize them.

Very often, in the visual arts, if you take the first work of a visual artist, it already includes almost everything they do later.

I think that one of the things I have always found most attractive about art and music and culture is the experience of how it can change one's thinking. This has always been the big pay-off for me. - Tony Conrad