stars Hong Kong alumni chapter meeting 2026
Uli SIGG, Art Collector; Member, stars China Advisory Panel, Mauensee, Switzerland
Guided Tour of the M+ Sigg Collection
1 July 2026, 17.00-20.00
M+ Museum, Hong Kong

Dear stars alumni

We have the great privilege to invite you to our next stars alumni chapter meeting in Hong Kong. Uli SIGG will personally show us his unique collection of Chinese contemporary art.

The programme on Wednesday, 1 July 2026 is as follows:

  • 17.00: Welcome Address by Suhanya RAFFEL, Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong, and Toni SCHOENENBERGER, Founder and Executive Chairman of stars
  • Guided Tour of the M+ Sigg Collection with Uli SIGG
  • Concluding Remarks by Tana ZHANG, Managing Director, Hong Kong and the Greater China Region, Cognito; President, stars Hong Kong alumni chapter
  • 19.00: Flying dinner
  • 20.00: End of chapter meeting

Location: M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon. Meeting point is on the 2nd floor.

Please register here until 31 May 2026.

Mark your calendars and join us for a memorable evening.

Best regards

Toni Schoenenberger
Founder and Executive Chairman

PS1: About M+ Sigg Collection
It is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world. It chronicles the development of Chinese art over four decades, from 1972 to 2012. Its unrivalled holdings of 1,510 works encompass a broad range of styles and mediums, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, photography, and digital art. Some of the earliest works in the collection are by the No Name Group and the Stars Art Group—underground art collectives that are considered by some to be precursors of contemporary art in China. As a whole, the collection provides a powerful framework for examining one of the most culturally dynamic periods in modern Chinese history, starting from the end of the Cultural Revolution, through China’s economic reforms of the 1980s, the urbanisation of the 1990s, and the era of globalisation in the 2000s, up until the year of the collection’s establishment in 2012.

The M+ Sigg Collection is an extraction from Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s private collection, which has been documenting the development of contemporary art, with a focus on Chinese art, since the early 1990s.

PS2: CV Uli Sigg
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.He currently is a member of the Advisory Board of China Development Bank and an active investor and board member in several tech ventures. 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 70ies to the present –  and then restituting 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 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 Kunstmuseum Zürich.

Alumni Chapter Meetings 2026