Hans Ulrich Obrist

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of Serpentine in London and Senior Advisor to the California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA), where he is helping shape the new art center’s curatorial and artistic direction and connect it to a global creative community. Throughout his career, Hans Ulrich has created new spaces and formats for art, conversation, and connection, building bridges across disciplines, geographies, and ideas. His first exhibition, World Soup (The Kitchen Show), transformed the kitchen of his student apartment into a place for art; since then, he has curated more than 400 exhibitions around the world. Hans Ulrich is also Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. A prolific interviewer and author, his books include Ways of Curating, Remember to Dream!, and, most recently, Life in Progress. He has received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, International Folkwang Prize, Prix François Morellet, K11 Art Foundation Prize: Curatorial Lighthouse, and The World Around Visionary Award.

California Academy of Studio Arts

California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA) is a new nonprofit interdisciplinary studio practice program and art center taking shape on the site of the historic San Francisco Art Institute. Following a thoughtful revitalization of the campus, CASA will be home to an 11-month, tuition-free studio arts program for up to 30 interdisciplinary artists and creative practitioners. CASA will provide participants with dedicated studio space, shared workshops, mentorship, and opportunities for public exhibitions and engagement with the city of San Francisco and the wider international creative ecosystem. CASA will also welcome the public to campus with a robust calendar of public programming, exhibitions, artist talks, a cafe, a bookstore, and access to the restored Diego Rivera mural The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City.