Budi Tek, one of the world’s most influential patrons of Chinese art, has died at 65:
“Budi Tek has been a great inspiration to me and LACMA, encouraging us to link East and West, Los Angeles and Shanghai, with contemporary art,” LACMA director Michael Govan told Artnet News. “By establishing a foundation, and his pioneering Yuz Museum in the West Bund in Shanghai, Budi helped energize the growth of museums in Shanghai, which is now truly an international center for contemporary art.
Ultimately, the collaboration with LACMA hit roadblocks due not only to the pandemic and Tek’s diminishing health, but also strained relations between China and the United States, as well as Chinese law, which prevented Tek from turning the Yuz Museum into a public institution as he had envisioned. Although Govan said it was “impossible to establish the joint foundation between LACMA and Yuz in China as we had planned,” Tek did donate several of the “Legacies” loans to LACMA. “Ai Weiwei’s… will remain at LACMA and is currently being reinstalled outside at the center of LACMA’s campus.”
Installation view of “Legacies of Exchange: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Yuz Foundation” with Ai Weiwei’sTek’s death comes less than two weeks after of the opening of the Yuz Museum’s highly anticipated Yoshitomo Nara“Budi was a true patron and a true friend to artists,” Marc Glimcher, president and CEO of Pace Gallery, which represents Nara, told.
Tek’s daughter Justine Alexandria will remain CEO of the Yuz Museum and director of the Yuz Foundation, according to the
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