About Burger Collection

The Burger Collection, Hong Kong, is a private collection of international contemporary art. Monique Burger and her husband have been building up this collection, which unites many media, since the early 1990s, with emphases in European/American, Indian, and Asian art. Currently it includes more than 1000 works by 120 artists.

One of the key ideas behind the collection is the cultivation of artistic dialogue, a responsible approach to the works, the creation of a public, and the development of a future vision for the collection. Not just a collection, Burger Collection also engages in arts patronage, and has made possible the realization of the film project House with Pool by the artists Hubbard & Birchler, the Motion Pictures project by Julian Opie, or the work Wille, Macht und Wandel by Herlinde Koelbl. Currently, Burger Collection is supporting along with Hong Kong Arts Development Council an exhibition project of the artist Pak Sheung Chuen for the Venice Biennale in 2009. Burger Collection is also the patron of Para/Site in Hong Kong, KHOJ Alternative Space in New Delhi, Kunsthalle Zürich, and AAA (Asia Art Archive) in Hong Kong. In recent years, works from Burger Collection have been lent to institutions such as Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne, Guggenheim Museum New York, Centre d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, and the São Paulo Biennial.

Currently, Burger Collection is realizing a four-part exhibition project under the curatorial leadership of Daniel Kurjakovic. Overall, in the coming four to six years, four temporary exhibitions, based on the aesthetic key terms of subjectivity, narration, history, and language, will be held in changing locations around the world.