Friday, February 18, 2011

UCCA Beijing handover


Guy Ullens is to hand over the management of the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing to long term partners and divest himself of the institution. He will also sell in stages the extensive collection of Chinese contemporary art he amassed with his wife Myrian. Once he has done this he says he intends to spend more time on his charitable education work in Nepal and return to collecting young artists, this time with a focus on Indian rather than Chinese artists. Read more...
Image: Yan Pei-Ming, installation view of Landscape of Childhood, UCCA, 2005