Purple Magazine
— The Island Issue #35 S/S 2021

hans ulrich obrist

ART interview by OLIVIER ZAHM artwork by RONAN BOUROULLEC portrait by JUERGEN TELLER  since his teens — traveling on night trains across europe, visiting one artist’s studio after another, searching, talking, interviewing — the swiss curator, a passionate pollinator of art, has never stopped opening the world to unprecedented curatorial possibilities. a vision that is ever inclusive, breaking boundaries and barriers between generations, races, and genders, as well as categories, from architecture to science and philosophy. OLIVIER ZAHM — I’m thrilled to have you in the Island issue, Hans, exploring the island as a metaphor for new possibilities: utopian or creative ideas that we can experiment with in these complex, chaotic times. And one of the possibilities that you are always working on is words, the importance of exchange. Basically, the idea of an interview. This will be the first-ever Purple interview about the interview. [Laughs] HANS ULRICH OBRIST —…

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