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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.
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Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
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Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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