About Burger Collection

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

One of the key ideas behind the collection is the cultivation of artistic dialogue by attracting an informed audience, by maintaining a responsible and dynamic approach to the works, and by developing a future vision for the collection. Not just an ensemble of works, the Burger Collection also engages in arts patronage, and has helped make possible the realization of various outstanding artistic endeavors such as the film House with Pool by the artists Hubbard & Birchler, the Motion Pictures project by Julian Opie, the light installation Public Notice 3 by Jitish Kallat on the Woman’s Board Grand Staircase at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, the exhibition Marguerite de Ponty of Urs Fischer at the New Museum in New York in 2009 or the work Wille, Macht und Wandel by Herlinde Koelbl. In collaboration with the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Burger Collection helped sponsor the exhibition project of the artist Pak Sheung Chuen for the Venice Biennale in 2009.

The 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 the Burger Collection have been lent to institutions such as Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Lyon and the São Paulo Biennial.