Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist  is Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2000 to 2006, as well as curator of Museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000.

Obrist has curated over 250 exhibitions since his first exhibition, the Kitchen show (World Soup) in 1991: 1994; Take Me, I’m Yours, 1995;  Manifesta 1, 1996; Laboratorium, 1999; Cities on the Move, 1997; Live/Life, 1996; Nuit Blanche, 1998; 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, 2005; Dakar Biennale, 2004; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; Yokohama Triennale, 2008 and Indian Highway, 2008-2011. The Marathon series of public events was conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist in Stuttgart in 2005.

The first in the Serpentine series, the Interview Marathon in 2006, involved interviews with leading figures in contemporary culture over 24 hours, conducted by Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas. This was followed by the Experiment Marathon, conceived by Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson in 2007, which included 50 experiments by speakers across both arts and science, the Manifesto Marathon in 2008, the Poetry Marathon in 2009 and the Map Marathon in 2010. 2011 marks the launch of the Institute of the 21st century, a website for the interview project.

In March 2011, Obrist was awarded the Bard College Award for Curatorial Excellence.