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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...

The Missiles (1994-2004) by North Korean artist Pak Yong Chol Photo: Sigg Collection; © The artist The Swiss art collector Uli Sigg first visited North Korea in the 1980s as an employee of the Schindler Elevator Corporation. In 1995 he became the Swiss ambassador there, and was the only foreign art collector permitted to purchase works portraying the regime’s leaders, among them a painting of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in front of their country’s rocket arsenal. Sigg’s collection of Korean art—from both North and South Korea—is to go on show in a politically se...

Share In 2012 Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman, Sinophile and, eventually, his country’s ambassador to China, agreed to donate 1510 pieces from his collection of Chinese art to the yet-to-be constructed M+ Museum for Visual Culture in Hong Kong. It was an announcement with a heavy degree of synchronicity. Sigg, who started collecting in the 1990s, has amassed what is believed to be the biggest collection of contemporary Chinese art in the world, numbering 2600 pieces. M+ building, courtesy of M+.  Winnie Yeung @ Visual Voices M+ will be the biggest public gallery in Hong Kong and one of the l...

He Xiangyu's first solo show in the United States opens at Andrew Kreps Gallery Installation view. Image courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica. NEW YORK, NY .-Andrew Kreps Gallery is presenting Soft Dilemma, He Xiangyu’s first exhibition with the gallery, as well as the artist’s first solo show in the United States. He Xiangyu's conceptual practice manifests in multi-year projects that span sculpture, drawing, installation, film and publications. Emerging as part of a generation of artists who experienced the post-socialist state of China, He’s work ...

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern jointly acquire monumental work by El Anatsui El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009, aluminum and copper wire, 560 x 1,000 cm, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern. Acquired with support of the Vereniging Rembrandt (thanks in part to its Titus Fonds, its Themafonds Naoorlogse en Hedendaagse Kunst and its Coleminks Fonds), Mondriaan Fund, BankGiro Loterij and the Stiftung GegenwART, with special thanks to the SIGG COLLECTION @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis. AMSTERDAM .- Rising prices on the art market make it incre...