HONG KONG — Earlier this month the legendary Swiss collector Uli Sigg announced he was donating the majority of his collection to Hong Kong’s planned contemporary art museum M+. The 1,463 artworks he has gifted to Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District have been conservatively valued at $163 million.
This is reportedly the largest art donation ever made to a single museum. The Sigg collection is considered the world's most important and comprehensive private collection of contemporary Chinese art, with works spanning from the early 1990s to today, and including many important pieces by prominent Chinese artists including Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Fanzhi, Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Liu Wei, Zhang Peili, Yue Mingjun, Yu Youhan, and Ding Yi, as well as works by Hong Kong artists Lee Kit and Pak Sheung Chuen, which were added to the collection recently.
It is yet to be announced when the collection will make its public debut, but M+ has indicated that part of the collection will be shown in a Hong Kong venue before the museum officially opens in 2017.
Click on the slide show to see highlights from the M+ Sigg Collection.
This story also appears on ARTINFO Hong Kong.