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Hans Ulrich Obrist
Roberto Matta, Cecilia Vicuna, Alfredo Jaar, Paz Errazuriz and others offer insight into Chilean art and politics
This volume looks closely at the Chilean experimental art scene, in which practitioners…
The Brazilian painter Maxwell Alexandre, 32, has soared rapidly in the art world, with solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the MAC Lyon, the David Zwirner Gallery…
The author has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world’s greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. In this book, he chooses nineteen…
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Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents…
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Dan Graham
Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate…
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On the occasion of the inauguration of the Centro de Artes Visuales Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed a range of architects and artists associated with the venue…
Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider…
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Milan Grygar,Ivan Kafka,Stanislav Kolibal
This publication is the result of visits carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist to artists’ studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jiri Kovanda, Karel Malich…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,John Chamberlain
John Chamberlain is famous for his sculptures of crushed cars, which made him pioneer of Pop Art. This conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, traces his life and art, from Abstract…
The French filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno born in Algeria, has been working and collaborating with curator/thinker/editor Hans Ulrich Obrist for many years; over many projects they have taken huge…
Over the past three and a half decades, Marina Abramovic’s astonishing oeuvre, with pieces in which she performs feats of extreme endurance or mortification of the flesh, has laid bare–perhaps…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,John Baldessari
Hans Ulrich Obrist has been a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles maestro of Conceptualism John Baldessari from early on in his career. For these conversations, the artist and curator…
Sheikha Maryam Hassan,Mohamed A Al Thani
Mahmoud Obaidi’s work encompasses sculpture, conceptual objects, film and painting; a series of politically-charged fragments which are brought together within this publication.
A collection of 31 conversations Hans Ulrich Obrist has held with thinkers and scientists on art, science and philosophy.
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Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Jhaveri
Following the 2014 publication of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s The Czech Files, this publication brings together 11 interviews with Indian artists and cultural producers carried out in the 2000s and 2010s…
Brian Clarke: Collages is an inspiring collection of 327 collages created by British artist Brian Clarke, who is widely considered the most progressive artist working with stained glass in the…
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Kostas Stasinopoulos
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation
Artists are…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
For over five decades, Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Damascus) has eschewed any singular form or subject in her wide-ranging practice. In this deeply personal volume, Fattal's close friend and confidante…
Paul Chan,Michael Diers
Think Like Clouds collects for the first time the drawings, notes and diagrams of curator, writer and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the past 22 years, Obrist has…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,David Shrigley
Since 2012, Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) has made a weekly contribution to Das Magazin, the weekend supplement of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper.
His weekly column offers a survey of…
The challenging French conceptualist Gonzalez-Foerster is prominent on the international scene. For Skulptur Projekte Munster 2007, she showed small-scale replicas of other Munster fair works, past and present; for her…
Hans Ulrich Obrist,Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world’s most significant creative and cultural figures. This title…
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Part of JRP-Ringer’s innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Reel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping…
The Richter Interviews collects together a series of conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gerhard Richter over the course of more than two decades of discussion and collaboration.
The Christo Interviews brings together a series of conversations between the artist, who is best known for the large-scale, site-specific environmental installations he created in collaboration with artistic partner and…
Rem Koolhass,Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Rem Koolhass is a bold theoretician of contemporary architecture. This book looks at Koolhaas’ role as counselor for the EU and his views on architecture as metaphor and on the…
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nancy Spector, Daniel Birnbaum
A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn Evans
Documenting the full history and output of an iconic Milan art gallery
Gi? Marconi retraces the history of Studio Marconi, an exhibition space founded by his father Giorgio Marconi in…
In his first published monograph, Tyler Mitchell, one of America’s distinguished photographers, imagines what a Black utopia could look like.
Judy Chicago, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martha Easton
Fifty years in the making, a radical retelling of human history in the form of an illuminated manuscript by acclaimed artist and author Judy Chicago, begun alongside her iconic work…
Tyler Hobbs' debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Order/Disorder contextualises Hobbs' groundbreaking art from 2018-2023 and includes works from his…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Jeff Koons
Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently controversial highlights. Koons makes acknowledgement here of determinative influences such…
This book features all 153 original posters created by the 127 artists invited to participate in IT’S URGENT!, an open form touring exhibition. Artists from all over the world responded…
Joseph Grigely,Hans-Ulrich Obrist,Zak Kyes
Exhibition Prosthetics by Joseph Grigely explores the artist’s use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real. Grigely uses the term ‘exhibition…
Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hear Us is a collection of writings exploring the transgressive and transdisciplinary nature of Burns’ practice. The publication is richly illustrated with material representing Burns’ work across photography…
In this artist’s book, Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco (born 1962) takes New York Times obituaries of famous people, removing anecdotal information to reveal the wit, drama and absurdity of the…
Features contributors from the fields of art, science, mathematics, performance, music, architecture, design, literature and sociology who have devised or chosen their own formula to express their understanding of life…
At once emphatically abstract and culturally specific, the work of Seung-taek Lee (born 1932) draws on the subtle beauty of Korean aesthetic traditions and folk art, also reflecting contemporaneous developments…
The complex video installations of Rachel Rose trace themes of mortality and narrative
New York-based artist Rachel Rose (born 1986) approaches visual storytelling as a sensory experience informed by key…
Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters and conversations with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers…
A classic photo book is now available again| Photographs documenting illegal objects, smuggled goods, and contraband
In 1993, the curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) organized an unannounced exhibition in a hotel room in Paris, where he lived for the duration of the…
April Lamm
Essays and portraits on the career and influence of curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Hans Ulrich Obrist often quotes the great art historian Erwin Panofsky, who once famously said that the future is built from fragments of the past. How these fragments accumulate is…
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister's newest project encourages long-term thinking and reminds us that many things in the world are improving
