Press Kit from 27 November 2025

**Exhibition view Mao Tongqiang Family Tree in „Alles unter dem Himmel. Harmonie in der Familie und im Staat“, Foto: Maria Sobotka.** [Übersetzen "english"] Foto: Maria Sobotka

Museum für Asiatische Kunst | Donation from the Sigg Collection: Mao Tongqiang’s Family Tree

27.11.2025

The Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is pleased to announce a major addition to its collection of contemporary East Asian art: The monumental photographic installation Family Tree by Chinese artist Mao Tongqiang enters the museum’s collection as a donation from the Sigg Collection. The Sigg Collection was assembled by Dr Uli and Rita Sigg as a landmark collection of Chinese contemporary art. The work will be shown for the first time in Berlin from 28 November 2025 in the exhibition All Under Heaven. Harmony in Family and State, curated by Maria Sobotka, at the Humboldt Forum.

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28.11.2025 to 25.05.2026

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