SIGG ART FOUNDATION

Sigg Art Foundation is an independent and non-profit organization founded in 2020 by Pierre Sigg, a longtime art collector. Through its residencies, collection, and programs, it aims at supporting the development of new ideas, encouraging knowledge, and creating bridges between cultures.

Sigg Art Foundation empowers emerging creatives, with a special focus on artists challenging history and its artistic heritage through the lens of digital and technological innovation.

About Pierre Sigg

Pierre Sigg has a Master from Europa College and a Doctorate in Economies in East-West relations. He is a Swiss art collector based in Saudi Arabia, as well as a seed investor in bittury.com and a business consultant in the fields of real estate, hospitality and tech. Pierre Sigg is also a strategic advisor for the Association for Building Bridges between the Nation and the People with Raiffeisen Bank International.

About the Collection

The founder’s collection encompasses a large corpus of works from Modern Art and Post War to very young artists. Recent acquisitions have focused on the relationship between traditional media, especially painting, and the digital.

Sigg Art Foundation will present a curated selection from its founder’s collection, showcasing new acquisitions exploring the intersection of painting and digital culture. Artists featured include Korakrit Arunanondchai, Monia Ben Hamouda, Meriem Bennani, Neil Beloufa, Jean Claracq, Louisa Gagliardi, and Austin Lee, alongside historical works by Charles Ross and Jean-Baptiste Vanmour. The foundation’s commitment to emerging voices and new media reflects its mission to support artistic experimentation across generations.

Korakrit Arunanondchai

Korakrit Arunanondchai’s multi-layered practice (film-making, painting, installation and performance) reflects on technology and spirituality, the accumulation of data, the fragility of memory and the interfaces between world history and personal experience, and the Anthropocene.

Neïl Beloufa

Neïl Beloufa is one the most powerful voices of the generation of artists born in the 1980s. His artistic research focuses on contemporary society and on how it is represented and mediated by digital interaction, often with the aim of exposing the control mechanisms.

Meriem Bennani

Meriem Bennani films, installations, and immersive environments merge references to globalized pop culture and traditional representations of Moroccan culture and history with humor and fantasy.

Monia Ben Hamouda

Following the belief that each individual is inextricably connected to their family tree and the psychological universe of their ancestors, Ben Hamouda attempts to master her influences in a contemporary and constantly changing landscape.

Jean Claracq

Painter of miniatures and icons, Jean Claracq contributes to the dialogue between painting and digital art. His models come from social networks and are part of a marginal or culturally different community.

Louisa Gagliardi

Louisa Gagliardi draws freely from the codes of painting as well as contemporary graphic design and advertising in order to rethink questions of figure and ground, flatness and depth. Created initially as fluid digital images, her works are printed on vinyl and then intervened upon with a gel medium that lends a texture that could be read as ghostly impressions of painterly marks.

Austin Lee

From digital media to painting and sculpture, Lee adopts superficially benign, cartoon-like imagery to address the ubiquitous consumption of art online. Starting with digital 3D sketches that are painstakingly translated from the screen to the painted canvas or sculpted form, his work is deeply reverent to the canon of renaissance painting, while embodying the interconnected, digital landscape which augments our contemporary reality.

Charles Ross

Ross discovered his passion for making art while studying mathematics at UC Berkeley. Using sunlight and starlight as the source for his art, Charles Ross creates large-scale prisms to project solar spectrum into architectural spaces; focuses sunlight into powerful beams to create solar burn works; draws the quantum behavior of light with dynamite; and works with a variety of other media including photography and video.

Jean Baptiste Vanmour

Jean Baptiste Vanmour was a Flemish-French painter, remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.