The Sigg Picture

As Hong Kong gets its first look at the M+ museum’s cornerstone collection of Chinese contemporary art, the donor, Uli Sigg, discusses his seminal archive with Chloe Street

Adecade before his death in 1899, English industrialist Henry Tate bequeathed his contemporary art collection to the nation along with money to build a gallery. This was the nucleus of what would become Tate Britain. Similarly, a bequest of modern art from US collector Lillie P Bliss in 1931 formed the foundation of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (Moma), which she also helped found. Just as Peggy Guggenheim’s purchases and home became the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, and Catherine the Great’s acquisitions formed the State Hermitage in St Petersburg, nearly every world-class public art institution is born of an individual’s collection. So when, in 2012, Swiss collector Uli Sigg pledged the vast majority of his unparalleled collection of contemporary Chinese…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2016

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