Life in Progress

byHans Ulrich Obrist, David Watson (Translator)

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World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of his life, and his journey towards 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 travel across Europe on night trains, visiting artists’ studios.

In a book that is part unputdownable coming-of-age story, part tour de force of the contemporary art world, part user’s manual on how to live a life driven by curiosity, conversation, and not least hope, Obrist takes us through the formative experiences that made him. From his first exhibition in his Zurich kitchen to penning 250 postcards while trapped by an avalanche in Val Bregaglia, Life in Progress is an enchanting ode to the healing properties that engaging with art and the people around us boundlessly affords.

Life In Progress invites us to discover the person behind the polymath … Art is the gateway to possibility, Obrist believes, and his aim, it would seem, is to chivvy the rest of us through it
The Times