Hans Ulrich Obrist: What business can learn from the art world

Hi everyone and welcome to In Good Company. I'm Nikola Tangen and I am the CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund and today I'm joined by somebody who I think probably is the world's greatest connector of ideas, people and art. Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London and widely considered the best art curator in the world. You created unbelievable amounts of exhibitions and today we're going to tease out the reasons behind your success, creativity, how to connect with people and what business can learn from all the kind of things you've done. So warm welcome.

Thank you. Very nice to see you. What does an art curator actually do? Yeah, I've always um followed this definition the the writer J. G.

Ballard gave me when he didn't really understand what was my profession. So I was describing it to him and he says, so basically what you're doing is you're a junction maker. You create unexpected connections. And I think that's kind of what is at the core of of my practice.

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