Has “Globe-trotter” curator, artistic director of the Serpentine in London, obsessive collector of conversations with artists, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, finally laid down his secrets in writing? What makes a myth? What did he carry from his predecessors and how did he negociate the patriarchal and hegemonic role of the visionary curator? And why does it feel like HUO is the last of his kind?
Joana, our host, a curator as well, goes over his recently published memoir, Life in Progress (Allen Books, Penguin, 2025) to discover a young man with a plan, cold-calling famous artists, and acquiring an enviable address book at a very young age. How did he get there and what art career did this auspicious start bring to him and to contemporary art?
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Jingle: "Wunder", experimental poem by Joana P. R. Neves.