Uli Sigg's Idiosyncratic Collection of North and South Korean Art Is Going on View in a Rare Show in Switzerland
Hua Guofeng in North Korea (1978 Oil on canvas 250 x 174 cm An ambitious new exhibition in Bern, Switzerland, has brought together artists from the bitterly divided nations of North and South Korea, which have long prevented artistic exchange. In “Border Crossings: North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection,” 90 works by 30 artists made between the 1970s to the 2010s hang side by side the divergent histories of the two nations, which have been divided by a hard border since 1953. The show, at Kunstmusem Bern, primarily hinges on the collection of Uli Sigg, who was the former Swis...
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