Hans Ulrich Obrist
Curriculum Vitae
Hans Ulrich Obrist was born in May 1968 in Zurich, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Paris. In 1993, he founded the migratory Museum Robert Walser and began to run the Migrateurs programme at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where he now serves as a curator for contemporary art.
He remains editor in chief of the hybrid artist pages Point d'Ironie, published by agnes b and begun in collaboration with her in 1997. He has been a frequent curator for the museum in progress, Vienna and lecturer at Facolta delle Arti, IUAV in Venice.
Since 1991 he has curated numerous
exhibitions including:
The Kitchen Show ( Schwalbenstrasse, St. Gallen, 1991)
Christian Boltanski in the Monastery Library St.Gallen (1991)
Gerhard Richter, Nietzsche Haus, Sils Maria (1992)
Hôtel Carlton Palace (Paris, 1993)
The Broken Mirror ( co-curated with K. Koenig, Vienna Festival, 1993),
Life/Live (with L.Bossé, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centro Belem, Lisbon, 1996)
Do it (so far 30 versions since 1994)
Cities on the Move (with Hou Hanru, Secession Vienna and CAPC Bordeaux, 1997, and Hayward Gallery, London and Kiasma, Helsinki and Bangkok, 1999),
Le Jardin, La Ville, La Mémoire (with L.Bossé and C.Christov-Bakargiev, Villa Medici, Rome, 1998-2000)
Laboratorium (with B.Vandelinden, Antwerp Open, 1999)
Sogni/Dreams (with F. Bonami, Fondazione Rebaudengo, 1999)
Retrace your steps: Remember tomorrow (Sir John Soanes Museum, London 1999-2000)
Rumor City (Fri Art, Fribourg and Mutations, Arc en Reve, Bordeaux, 2000)
Mutations: Evenement culturel sur la ville contemporaine (co-curated with R. Koolhaas, S. Kwinter, S.Boeri) Arc en Reve, Bordeaux, 2000/2000
TN Probe Tokyo 2001
Traversés (ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, with L. Bossé 2001
Bridge the Gap? ( CCA KItakyushu, with A. Miyake), The Air is blue (Barragan House Mexico City 2002/2003).
Most recently, he co-curated the monographic exhibitions of Olafur Eliasson, Philippe Parreno and Steve Mc Queen at ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, with L.Bossé and A. Scherf) 2003.
Additionally, he edited the writings of Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert and George, Maria Lassnig and Leon Golub and is the editor of a series of artist books published by Walther Koenig including books by John Baldessari, Christian Boltanski, Peter Fischli/ David Weiss, Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, and Anri Sala.