Uli Sigg

Uli Sigg in his career traversed very diverse fields: from graduating 1976 with a doctorate in law at the Zurich University to journalism, to industry, to global corporate boards, to diplomacy serving as Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia, to venture capital investing – and during all that period to art. Of his extensive interactions in more than 45 years with the PR China, two are of historic significance: to establish 1980 the first industrial joint venture between PRChina and the outside world which marks the beginning of the PRC‘s epochal globalization process; and to form the singular collection of Chinese contemporary art that can represent the story line from its very beginnings in the 70ies to the present - and then repatriating 1500 works back to China, to the M+ Museum in Hongkong. He also established 1997 the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Chinese contemporary artists now transformed into the SIGG PRIZE and the Chinese Contemporary Art Critic Award. He is a member of the M+ Museum Board, the International Council of New York Modern Art Museum MOMA, International Advisory Council of Tate Gallery, London and member of the Board of Kunstmuseum Zürich.