Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here: 111 Artists, 111 Notes is the latest volume in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s celebrated Post-it notes series, featuring a curated selection of 111 handwritten notes drawn from his ongoing social media project which has garnered more than 405,000 Instagram followers.

In this open-ended project, bringing together the slow composition of the handwritten note and the velocity of the Instagram post, Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day, dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers, poems and puns from some of the world’s greatest contemporary artists. Following the success of the first volume Remember to Dream! published in 2023, the book has once again been designed by award-winning book designer Irma Boom, who interprets each handwritten note to capture the character of its author with her ingenious and original typography.

Featuring Post-it notes from John Akomfrah, Alvaro Barrington, Es Devlin, Kim Gordon, Lubaina Himid, Ho Tzu Nyen, Isaac Julien, KAWS, Kid Cudi, Jeff Koons, Yorgos Lanthimos, Caroline Polachek, Tilda Swinton, Paula Rego, Salman Rushdie, Skepta, Jimmy Wales and many more!

The book's title – Wish You Were Here – is taken from a note by the American artist Pope.L (1955-2023).

John Akomfrah, Refik Anadol, Ida Applebroog, Tolia Astakhishvili, Ed Atkins, Nairy Baghramian, Matthew Barney, Alvaro Barrington, Georg Baselitz, Beeple, Stefano Boeri, Mark Bradford, Cecily Brown, Vitalik Buterin, Seba Calfuqueo, Heman Chong, Hélène Cixous, Francesco Clemente, Matt Copson, Tacita Dean, Samuel R. Delany, Es Devlin, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Liz Diller, Jim Dine, Isabella Ducrot, Bracha L. Ettinger, Kim Gordon, Antony Gormley, Jon Gray, Katharina Grosse, Luca Guadagnino, Hans Haacke, Lauren Halsey, Byung-Chul Han, Holly Herndon, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jacques Herzog, Sheila Hicks, Lubaina Himid, Ho Tzu Nyen, Sky Hopinka, Cristina Iglesias, Anne Imhof, Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq, Ix Shells, Suzanne Jackson, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Isaac Julien, Alex Katz, KAWS, Mary Kelly, Francis Kéré, Kid Cudi, Kim Hyesoon, Alexander Kluge, Hideo Kojima, Jeff Koons, Suzanne Lacy, Yorgos Lanthimos, June Leaf, Seung-taek Lee, Lee Bul, Glenn Ligon, Maya Lin, Takesada Matsutani, Paul McCarthy, Julie Mehretu, Tyler Mitchell, Sarah Morris, Oscar Murillo, Minoru Nomata, Alice Notley, Albert Oehlen, Luigi Ontani, Piet Oudolf, Amol K Patil, Solange Pessoa, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Caroline Polachek, Pope. L, Paula Rego, Pedro Reyes, Nile Rodgers, Carlo Rovelli, Salman Rushdie, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Anri Sala, Mona Saudi, Helen Sebidi, Hassan Sharif, Amy Sherald, Álvaro Siza, Skepta, Paul Stamets, Tilda Swinton, Pol Taburet, Tadáskía, Juergen Teller, Eduardo Terrazas, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel, Frederic Tuten, Gunther Uecker, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Sumayya Vally, Francesco Vezzoli, Jimmy Wales, John Waters, Wim Wenders, Yang Fudong