For his exit lecture at the “Where do we go from here?” symposium at the Louisiana Museum in 2009, during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, Hans Ulrich Obrist  compiled one of his famous lists. 

The future will be chrome.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

The future will be curved.

Olafur Eliasson

The future will be “in the name of the future.

Anri Sala

The future will be so subjective.

Tino Sehgal

The future will be bouclette.

Douglas Gordon

The future will be curious.

Nico Dockx

The future will be obsolete.

Tacita Dean

The future will be asymmetric.

Pedro Reyes

The future will be a slap in the face.

Cao Fei

The future will be delayed.

Loris Greaud

The future does not exist but in snapshots.

Philippe Parreno

The future will be tropical.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Future? …you must be mistaken

Trisha Donnelly

The future will be overgrown and decayed.

Simryn Gill

The future will be tense.

John Baldessari

Zukunft ist lecker.

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Zukunft ist wichtiger als Freizeit.

Helmut Kohl (proposed by Carsten Höller)

A future fuelled by human waste.

Matthew Barney

The future is going nowhere without us.

Paul Chan

The future is now - the future is it.

Doug Aitken

The future is one night, just look up.

Tomas Saraceno

The future will be a remake…

Didier Fiuza Faustino

The future is what we construct from what we remember of the past - the present is the time of instantaneous revelation.

Lawrence Weiner

The future is this place at a different time.

Bruce Sterling

The future will be widely reproduced and distributed.

Cory Doctorow

The future will be whatever we make it.

Jacque Fresco

The future will involve splendour and poverty.

Arto Lindsay

The future is uncertain because it will be what we make it.

Immanuel Wallerstein

The future is waiting - the future will be self-organized.

Raqs Media Collective

Dum Spero/ While I breathe, I hope.

Nancy Spero

This is not the future.

Jordan Wolfson

The future is a dog/ l’avenir c’est la femme.

Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron

On its way; it was here yesterday.

Hreinn Friðfinnsson

The future will be an armchair strategist, the future will be like no snow on the broken bridge.

Yang Fudong

The future always flies under the radar.

 Martha Rosler

Suture that future.

Peter Doig

‘To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow’ (Shakespeare).

Richard Hamilton

The future is overrated.

Cerith Wyn Evans

futuro = $B!g(B

Hector Zamorra

The future is a large pharmacy with a memory deficit.

David Askevold

The future will be bamboo.

Tay Kheng Soon

The future will be ousss.

Koo Jeong-A

The future will be…grains, particles & bits.

The future will be…ripples, waves & flow.

The future will be…mix, swarms, multitudes.

The future will be…the future we deserve but with some surprises, if only some of us take notice.

Vito Acconci

In the future…the earth as a weapon…

Allora & Calzadilla

The future is our excuse.

Joseph Grigely and Amy Vogel

The future will be repeated.

Marlene Dumas

Ok, ok I’ll tell you about the future; but I am very busy right now; give me a couple of days more to finish some things and I’ll get back to you.

Jimmie Durham

Future is instant.

Yung Ho Chang

'The future is not.’

Zaha Hadid

The future is private.

Anton Vidokle

The future will be layered and inconsistent.

Liam Gillick

The future is a piano wire in a pussy powering something important.

Matthew Ronay

In the future perhaps there will be no past.

Daniel Birnbaum

The future was.

Julieta Aranda

The future is menace.

Carolee Schneemann

The future is a forget-me-not.

Molly Nesbit

The future is an knowing exchange of glances.

Sarah Morris

The future: Scratching on things I could disavow.

Walid Raad

The future is our own wishful thinking.

Liu Ding

Le futur est un étoilement.

Edouard Glissant

The future is now.

Maurizio Cattelan

The future has a silver lining.

Thomas Demand

The future is now and here.

Yona Friedman

is a fax best to use as facsimile G&G FAX is:

THE FUTURE?

SEE YOU THERE!

AS ARTISTS WE WANT TO HELP

TO FORM OUR TOMORROWS.

WE HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN

THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

ITS GOING TO BE MARVELLOUS.

LONG LIVE THE FUTURE

WITH LOTS OF LOVE

ALWAYS AND ALWAYS

Gilbert&George

The future is without you.

Damien Hirst

The future is a season.

Pierre Huyghe

The future is a poster.

M/M

We have repeated the future out of existence.

Tom McCarthy

The future has two large beautiful eyes.

Jonas Mekas

less, few tours in my future.

Stefano Boeri

Future is what it is.

Huang Yong Ping

The future is the very few years we have remaining before all time becomes one time.

Grant Morrison

FUTURE MUST BE HERE TODAY

Jan Kaplicky

Future is more freedom.

Jia Zhangke

My art is very free, I don’t know what to do in the future. But I am positive.

Xu Zhen

The future is inside.

Shumon Basar, Markus Miessen, Åbäke

NO FUTURE - PUNK IS NOT DEATH !

Thomas Hirschhorn

The future will be grim if we don’t do something about it.

Morgan Fisher

The future is reflexive and coming together

Olafur Eliasson

The future is listening

Shilpa Gupta

The future lies in the unknown

Ann Lislegaard

Nothing stinks, only thinking made it so

Sissel Tolaas

What the future is, you only know next morning

Die Zukunft kann man nur ueber Nacht definieren

Peter Sloterdijk

The future is a disease

Peter Weibel

Foto: Gardard Eide Einarssons’s installation on the Louisiana Museum photographed by Finn Broendum.