Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Photo: Martin Parr for SLEEK 59.
As part of our #culturepersists campaign, we’re launching a podcast series where SLEEK’s Editor-in-Chief Grace Banks will speak to influential people across the arts on how culture will move forward following the coronavirus pandemic. The series will explore how creativity is impacted by the current crisis, and how culture will change in the future.
For the fourth and finale episode in the series, Grace spoke with super-curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Hans-Ulrich Obrist about why the process of creating art is so important right now, the importance of public art funding, how the art world needs to change and adapt as we move into the new normal, and ultimately—to paraphrase Gerhard Richter—how art is the highest form of hope.
"It's important to look to artists to shape the future."