Indonesian-Chinese collector Budi Tek is to receive the Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, France’s highest order of merit.
Tek receives the prestigious title for his contribution to promoting cultural relations between China and France. He will be awarded the title at a ceremony at his own Yuz Museum in Shanghai on 13 August.
The billionaire collector, whose museum opened in the West Bund district of Shanghai in 2014, owns a collection of over 1,500 works. His nonprofit Yuz Foundation has supported exhibitions in both countries, notably the major Giacometti retrospective at Yuz Museum in 2016 and the Zhen Fanzhi retrospective at Paris’s MNAM in 2013, as well as supporting the Indonesian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and funding the Asia Art Archive.
Tek, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 18 months ago, is currently building another museum in Bali, which will open in 2018.
4 August 2017
