Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things. Tino Sehgal attachfeltimportance Change image and share on social
The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out. Tino Sehgal interestpeoplework Change image and share on social
I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production. Tino Sehgal addresscelebrationcontinuous share on social
I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film. Tino Sehgal acknowledgeartconnect Change image and share on social
I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos. Tino Sehgal goodphoto Change image and share on social
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music. Tino Sehgal culturedanceeffort share on social
Attention is the material I work with. Tino Sehgal attentionmaterialwork Change image and share on social
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding. Tino Sehgal 20th21staccumulate share on social
I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people. Tino Sehgal backbringencounter Change image and share on social
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration. Tino Sehgal collaborationcorrespondencekind share on social