Ways of curating

Abstract

"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 alive and dead - Hans Ulrich Obrist's Ways of Curating looks to inspire all those engaged in the creation of culture. Moving from meetings with the artists who have inspired him (including Gerhard Richter and Gilbert and George) to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps, skipping between exhibitions (his own and others), continents and centuries, Ways of Curating argues that curation is far from a static practice. Driven by curiosity, at its best it allows us to create the future."--

Contents

Prologue: The Way Things Go -- With Alighiero Boetti -- Mondialité -- do it -- Curating, Exhibitions and the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Courbet, Manet and Whistler -- Collecting Knowledge -- Of Libraries and Archives -- Printed Exhibitions -- Infinite Conversations -- Pioneers -- Night Trains and Other Rituals -- The Kitchen -- Robert Walser and Gerhard Richter -- Mentors -- Félix Fénéon and the Hotel Carlton Palace -- Invisible Cities -- London Calling -- Architecture, Urbanism and Exhibitions -- Biennials -- Utopia Station -- Ballet Russes -- Time and Exhibitions -- Of Pavilions and Marathons -- Curating (Non-)Conferences -- Les Immatériaux -- Laboratorium -- Curating the Future -- Notes -- Acknowledgements.