Books by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects at The Serpentine Galleries, London.
“It’s inspiring to read about a life and art that goes beyond our standardised, Western-focused art history … Her work poses the question: what is the legacy and the heritage an artist starts with? How do these become important elements in an artistic practice?” Read more...
Michaela Unterdörfer, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Interviews with Hans Ulrich Obrist
The best books on Contemporary Art, recommended by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist, says that to be contemporary means to come back to a present where we have never been.
Interviews where books by Hans Ulrich Obrist were recommended
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The Artist and His Critic Stripped Bare: Correspondence
by Marcel Duchamp & Robert Lebel -
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Worte Nicht in Giftige Buchstaben Einwickeln
by Lisa Wenger & Meret Oppenheim -
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Diaries
by Eva Hesse -
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Robert Voit: The Alphabet of New Plants
by Robert Voit -
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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The Best Books by Artists, recommended by Michaela Unterdörfer
The Best Books by Artists, recommended by Michaela Unterdörfer
Why should we read what visual artists have written? Michaela Unterdörfer, head of publishing for the art gallery Hauser & Wirth, argues that the visual and artistic language of artists makes archival material more immediate and compelling. Artists’ testimonies refer not only to physical archives but above all to the mental archives of artists, their cultural and historic inheritance, which books like these bring to life.
