Submission deadline: April 30, 2026
The Norman Foster Foundation/Ivorypress are delighted to announce the first catalogue raisonné of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s curatorial practice, covering over 400 exhibitions from 1991 to 2025. This publication will be the first comprehensive catalogue devoted to Obrist’s trajectory.
As part of this project, archival materials and documentation are welcomed from institutions and individuals who have collaborated with Hans Ulrich Obrist during this period on exhibitions and curatorial projects. Photographs, installation views, correspondence, records and other forms of documentation are essential to reflecting the collaborative nature of Obrist’s curatorial work and to tracing the networks of people and places that have shaped it.
The catalogue raisonné will map exhibitions across more than three decades, examining the formats and methodologies that have defined Obrist’s ongoing practice. A key focus of the publication will be DO IT, the curatorial project initiated in 1993 in Paris with Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier.
Conceived as a response to the question of how an exhibition might resist being fixed in time and space, DO IT proposed instructions instead of presenting singular, static works in a museum. Artists were invited to write scores that could be enacted anywhere in the world, loosening authorship and prioritising collaboration. Realisations of DO IT have taken the form of performances, recipes, simple gestures or philosophical reflections and have unfolded in museums, universities, schools and homes across the globe.
We invite institutions, artists, curators, collaborators, collectors, organisers, participants and individuals who have taken part in or contributed to these projects to share archival material connected to DO IT. Contributions relating to other exhibitions in Obrist’s curatorial career are also welcome.
Please send materials to: huocatalogue@ivorypress.com. Submission deadline: April 30, 2026.
