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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...

C HINA’S LEADERS seem sure that innovation can co-exist with authoritarian rule. Their confidence looks more rational than it once did: Chinese firms dominate some high-tech fields. Still, they have to explain a counterpoint: when freedoms increased in China over the past 40 years, greater creativity always followed. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman and diplomat, first reached China in 1979, as reformers began to dismantle the Mao-era planned economy. Later, he spent decades building an unrivalled collection of contemporary Chi...

In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side,...

In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side,...