{"id":10907,"date":"2026-09-29T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/?p=10907"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:22:21","slug":"the-chinese-lives-of-uli-sigg-am-zurcher-filmfestival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/the-chinese-lives-of-uli-sigg-am-zurcher-filmfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg am Z\u00fcrcher Filmfestival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than ten years after its world premiere, the film returns to Zurich. Uli Sigg is now eighty years old.<br \/>\nAt the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blick.ch\/people-tv\/schweiz\/the-chinese-lives-of-uli-sigg-zff-ehrt-kunstsammler\/r2c9y58?utm_source=whatsapp&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share-button\"><strong>invitation of Ringier Medien<\/strong><\/a>, Uli Sigg and Michael Schindhelm spoke once again \u2013 in the presence of many Swiss business leaders and figures from the media and cultural sectors \u2013 about the film, Sigg\u2019s life in China and our future with the Chinese superpower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ctwr_1BRpaI\">Trailer The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to better understand China, Uli Sigg, who entered the country in 1980 as an entrepreneur and economic expert, turned to art and over the years assembled the most important collection of contemporary Chinese art. Most of it is given to the Museum M+ in Hong Kong. A documentary about the entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector Uli Sigg in the field of tension of Chinese society from the late 1970s until today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10903\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103-500x309.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103-500x309.png 500w, https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103-800x495.png 800w, https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103-1536x950.png 1536w, https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-103.png 1924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than ten years after its world premiere, the film returns to Zurich. Uli Sigg is now eighty years old. At the invitation of Ringier Medien, Uli Sigg and Michael Schindhelm spoke once again \u2013 in the presence of many Swiss business leaders and figures from the media and cultural sectors \u2013 about the film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/the-chinese-lives-of-uli-sigg-am-zurcher-filmfestival\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[567,290,114,605,157],"class_list":["post-10907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays-news","tag-ai-weiwei-en-2","tag-ai-weiwei-en","tag-china","tag-gegenwartskunst-en","tag-uli-sigg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10908,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions\/10908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelschindhelm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}