Life in Progress
$44.01
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2026
Summary
Life in Progress: A Curator’s Journey Through Art and Healing
World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, for the first time, grants a private view of how a near-death experience in young childhood catapulted him toward art and artists.
When Hans Ulrich was six years old, he was knocked down by a speeding car as he was crossing the street. Hospitalized for weeks, a sense of urgency was instilled in him. Enraptured by the healing powers of art from this young age, he began to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241712207 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241712203 |
| Author: | Hans Ulrich Obrist |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 138mm x 28mm |
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He is a passionate communicator. In result, half the world is starting to live in the future now – Yoko OnoHis words come out in an almost comical torrent, citations bobbing up and ideas colliding… ArtReview named him the most powerful figure in the field, but Obrist seems less to stand atop the art world than to race around, up, over, and through it * The New Yorker *
About The Author
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was a curator at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 300 shows. Obrist’s recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialite (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) and The Athens Dialogues (2018).
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