Guy & Myriam Ullens de Schooten

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Guy and Myriam Ullens de Schooten, Belgian philanthropists and collectors living in Switzerland, have initiated some thirty years ago an ambitious philanthropic action, founding for instance the Ullens School in Nepal, which looks after the education of thousands Nepalese children, from kindergarden until the gates of University. Art lovers and entrepreneurs, the Ullens founded in 2007 the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art - UCCA - in Beijing. UCCA became the largest Contemporary art Museum in China and a worldwide reference in the art world. In 2016, to expand further the ambitions of UCCA (Two new antennas of UCCA yet: Beidaihe and Shanghai coming soon), Guy Ullens opened the capital of the museum to the major Asian Fund Lunar, though remaining a minor share holder and member of the board. Settled in Orsières, Valais, the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation manages today the artistic and philantropic activities of its founders, providing support to philanthropic actions, exhibitions, publications, art productions. The institution also manages the conservation and diffusion of a contemporary art collection rich of hundreds of major works, characterized by a universal focus (works from China, India, Europe, USA, Africa…) and a tropism for pioneer artists who invent or re-invent their art. A new chapter of this collection is dedicated to the Computing art, from the 1960’s until today, with already some hundred works.