The Swiss bank UBS have one of the most important corporate collections in the world, with work from Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman through to Ed Ruscha, Tracey Emin and Olafur Eliasson. In 2006 they entered into a threeyear partnership with Tate Modern in London, where, as part of the museum’s rehang, UBS will exhibit key parts of their collection in the London gallery. In 2006 Tate showed the UBS photography collection, which includes iconic work such as Andreas Gursky’s photograph of a convenience store, 99 Cent (1999), and this past year showed its drawing collection (closing this month). The partnership follows on ones already in place in other museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, which allow the bank to share its collection with the wider public. The policy, at least in the case of Tate Modern, has raised concerns about using publicly funded gallery space to show a corporate collection, but the scheme does suggest that each museum will get at least some of the works shown. UBS’s advisory team includes Yoshiko Mori, who co-founded the Mori Art Museum in Japan, and the veteran curator Jean-Christophe Ammann.
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