Conversations | Kulapat Yantrasast | Art Basel Awards

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Kulapat Yantrasast, Founder and Creative Director, WHY Architecture, New York and Los Angeles&nbsp; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, London In this new series of talks, ‘One-on-ones’, artists and creatives shortlisted for the Art Basel Awards are invited to the Conversations stage for a dynamic deep dive into their work, recent projects, and journeys to this point. Kulapat Yantrasast, the founder and creative director of WHY Architecture and a nominee in the Cross-disciplinary Creator category, speaks to Hans Ulrich Obrist, the artistic director at Serpentine and a jury member for the Art Basel Awards. Kulapat Yantrasast is the founder and creative director of WHY Architecture, an interdisciplinary practice based in New York and Los Angeles, working at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, objects, and cultural life. Born in Thailand and trained in Tokyo under Tadao Ando, Yantrasast approaches architecture as a form of cultural translation – an attentive process of shaping space so that memory, ritual, and contemporary experience can coexist. &nbsp; Commissions include private residences and projects for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, Dib Bangkok, and Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum, Delhi. Hans Ulrich Obrist is the artistic director of Serpentine in London and the senior advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup (The Kitchen Show)’ in 1991, he has curated more than 350 exhibitions. Obrist’s publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), The Extreme Self: Age of You (2021), 140 Ideas for Planet Earth (2021), Edouard Glissant: Archipelago (2021), James Lovelock: Ever Gaia (2023), Remember to Dream (2023), and Une vie in Progress (2023).&nbsp;

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