Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies

The Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies examines market conditions and mechanisms of art production, trade and reception from its beginnings to the present day, particularly since the beginning of the modern age. It links the activities of various institutions and scholars in the thematic field of the art market.

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Founding members

• Dr. Dorothee Wimmer
• Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
• Dr. Johannes Nathan

Director

• Dr. Dorothee Wimmer

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Das Geschäft mit der Kunst in der DDR: Privates Sammeln, verstaatlichter Handel und die Enteignung von Kulturgütern

Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Magdeburg, will give an evening lecture at the Forum Kunst und Markt/Center for Art Market Studies on the topic: "Das Geschäft mit der Kunst in der DDR: Privates Sammeln, verstaatlichter Handel und die Enteignung von Kulturgütern."

Date: 29/04/2019, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room A 111, Architecture Building of the TU, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin

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• Monday, 29/04/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Magdeburg: Das Geschäft mit der Kunst in der DDR: Privates Sammeln, verstaatlichter Handel und die Enteignung von Kulturgütern
• Monday, 13/05/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Oy-Marra / Sabine Scherzinger, M.A. / Julia Schmidt, M.A., Mainz: Auktionskataloge – ihre Provenienzen, Annotationen und Funktionen: Die Bibliothek der Kunsthistorischen Forschungsstätte Paris (1942-44)
• Monday, 17/06/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Dr. Christoph Rausch, Maastricht: Better than Gold? Art in Storage Spaces of the 21st Century
• Monday, 01/07/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Dr. Alexander Hofmann, Berlin: Bausteine zu einer Geschichte des japanischen Kunstmarkts, ca. 1500 – 1900

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Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France

Paris, France, 11-13 March 2019
Berlin, Germany, 8-10 November 2018

The German-French Research Programme 2018–2019 “Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France” is organised by the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies at TU Berlin and the Centre Georg Simmel at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in collaboration with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris. The German-French Research Programme 2018–2019 is funded by the UFA/DFH.

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Downloads: 
CFP German-French Research Programme 2018-2019 
Flyer Germany and France: Art Market and Art Collecting 1900-1945 
Poster Germany and France: Art Market and Art Collecting 1900-1945
Booklet Germany and France Art Market and Art Collecting 1900-1945

Reviews: 
Elena Maria Rita Rizzi, Florence, in: H/Soz/Kult, 25/01/19
Vanessa von Kolpinski, Berlin, in: ArtHist.net, 6/02/2019

Acquiring Cultures: Histories of World Art on Western Markets

Edited by Bénédicte Savoy, Charlotte Guichard, Christine Howald  

Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018

Based on a symposium in Berlin,  organized by the Institute for Art History in cooperation with the Centre for Art Market Studies at Technical University Berlin, the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (CNRS) and the Labex TransferS (PSL) in Paris, the publication includes contributions by Felicity Bodenstein, Ting Chang, Manuel Charpy, Nélia Dias, Natasha Eaton, Noëmie Etienne, Jonathan Fine, Christine Howald, Philip Jones, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ying-chen Peng, Léa Saint-Raymond, Elodie Vaudry, and Masako Yamamoto.

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State/Public/Private Museums: Challenges and Dynamics in a Global Art World

Part I: Introduction/Panel Discussion 
Part II: Public Talk 

The panel discussion of the symposium “The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets” is available online. 

International Conference: The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets (Berlin, November 16–18, 2017)

Concept:

• Technische Universität Berlin: Bénédicte Savoy (Fachgebiet Kunstgeschichte der Moderne / Collège de France), Dorothee Wimmer (Centre for Art Market Studies)
• Julia Voss (2016/17 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
• Forum Transregionale Studien: Hannah Baader (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices / Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz), Georges Khalil

Funded by: 
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Media partner: 
L.I.S.A. - Das Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung

Downloads:
CFP The Global Power of Private Museums
Flyer The Global Power of Private Museums
Poster_The Global Power of Private Museums
Booklet The Global Power of Private Museums

Interview:
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 14.11.2017

Review:
Carmela Thiele, "Das Privatmuseum als Chance?" (RiffReporter, 11.12.2017)
Nathalie Okpu, Conference Report: "The Global Power of Private Museums. Arts and Publics – States and Markets" (TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 11.04.2019)

The lecture series of the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies promotes interdisciplinary and interinstitutional exchange for current research.

 Summer Term 2019

• Monday, 29/04/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Magdeburg: Das Geschäft mit der Kunst in der DDR: Privates Sammeln, verstaatlichter Handel und die Enteignung von Kulturgütern
• Monday, 13/05/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Oy-Marra / Sabine Scherzinger, M.A. / Julia Schmidt, M.A., Mainz: Auktionskataloge – ihre Provenienzen, Annotationen und Funktionen: Die Bibliothek der Kunsthistorischen Forschungsstätte Paris (1942-44)
• Monday, 17/06/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Dr. Christoph Rausch, Maastricht: Better than Gold? Art in Storage Spaces of the 21st Century
• Monday, 01/07/2019, 6:15 p.m.: Dr. Alexander Hofmann, Berlin: Bausteine zu einer Geschichte des japanischen Kunstmarkts, ca. 1500 – 1900

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Lecture Archive

The Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for current international research on the art market of all periods. The articles are published in English.

Published by Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies
www.fokum-jams.org

Asian Art: Markets, Provenance, History
Volume 2, Number 3, 2018

This issue of the Journal for Art Market Studies is focused on the subject “Asian Art: Markets, Provenance, History” and traces the circumstances and the paths taken by East Asian objects through the art market towards Western collections, be it the porcelain collection of Augustus the Strong, the looting of the Chinese imperial summer palace, or the current market for contemporary art.

Translocations and the Art Market
Volume 2, Number 2, 2018

Ever since antiquity, the art market and the translocation of art have been closely related. The fourth issue of the Journal for Art Market Studies explores aspects of translocation facilitated by the art market, for example through lucrative trade in looted art as under the Nazis, the skillful exploitation of economic opportunities by wealthy overseas buyers, politically induced sales of national cultural assets as after the Russian Revolution, or the trade in colonial objects whose acquisition circumstances are often unknown.

Exhibiting Art for Sale

Volume 2, Number 1, 2018

The third issue of the Journal for Art Market Studies is dedicated to the exhibition space of the art market. What are the historical and current interrelations between exhibition strategies and sales transactions?

The themes of the articles range from contemporary New York art galleries, art fairs, modern art galleries in Paris and Berlin at the beginning of the 20th century, to art trade palaces built in Munich around 1900, as well as American barbershops of the late 18th and early 19th century.  

Theories of the Art Market: Data – Value – History

Volume 1, Number 2, 2017

Is Art Market Studies a discipline in its own right, or rather a research focus area? And if it is a research focus area, then which discipline does it belong to? Art history? Economic or social history? Sociology? Economics of culture?

In this second issue "Theories of the Art Market: Data – Value – History" we ask about the theories of art market research and their different approaches, methods and objectives. We ask from an art history perspective which is quite open to transdisciplinary approaches.

The Pricing of Art. Makers – Markets – Museums

Volume 1, Number 1, 2017

This first issue of our open access Journal for Art Market Studies does not seek to provide estimates of artwork prices. Instead, "The Pricing of Art. Makers - Markets - Museums" focuses on analysing how market players and institutions in the “art market system” have combined to affect the pricing of art, both now and in the past.

The aim is to present selected case studies which offer representative insights into different countries, periods, networks and phenomena from the perspective of art and museum historians, economists, and sociologists.

The Network for Young Scholars sustains the communication among young researchers in the field of a long-term cultural history of the art market, supporting particularly the development of innovative methods for exploring the relationship between artworks as art historical objects and their cultural and financial economy.

Convenors 

• Dr. des. Lukas Fuchsgruber

Contact

• lfuchsgruber(at)mailbox.tu-berlin.de

Workshops

• Friday-Saturday, 14-15/09/2018: "Digital Tools for Art Market Studies. Third Meeting of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies"
  Location: TU Berlin, Architecture Building, Room A 083, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin
• Friday/Saturday, 10./11.06.2016: "Theories of the Art Market. Second Meeting of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies"
  Location: TU Berlin, Room FH 604, Fraunhoferstraße 33-36, 10587 Berlin
• Friday, 13.11.2015: "Theory, Sources, Tools. First Meeting of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies"
  Location: TU Berlin, Architecture Building, Room A 083, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623 Berlin

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