Over the past five decades, Dr. Uli Sigg, former Swiss Ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia (1995-1998) and Advisory Board Member of Asia Society Switzerland, has built up an impressive and encyclopedic collection of contemporary Chinese art, which is considered to be the world’s largest and most representative collection of contemporary Chinese art to date.

Asia Society Switzerland is delighted to offer an exclusive art tour to Castle Mauensee, Uli Sigg’s home, where part of his collection is housed. After a guided tour by Mr. Sigg through the premises, which are not open to the public, you are invited to join a dinner in Sursee to continue the conversation.

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Dr. Uli Sigg in his career traversed very diverse fields: from journalism to industry to diplomacy as Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea and Mongolia to venture capital investing and to art. He served on various boards of global companies and is an active investor into early-stage tech companies. Of his extensive interactions in more than forty years with the PR China, two are of historic significance: to establish 1980 the first industrial joint venture between the PRC 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 beginnings in the 70s to the present – and then restituting 1'500 works back to China, to the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. He also established 1997 the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for Chinese contemporary artists living in Greater China, now transformed into the SIGG PRIZE. 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 Kunsthaus Zürich. Uli Sigg is also a member of Asia Society Switzerland's Advisory Board.