IESA arts&culture is launching new online courses on the art market, in English, on how it works internationally, in partnership with ArtReview.

The idea of creating new online courses on the art market came during a conversation with the managing director of ArtReview, who suggested a collaboration to offer an introduction to how international art markets work. This distance-learning art market program is intended for artists, legal, economic, and art advisors, gallery owners, and students completing their studies in the art market sector. In this spirit, we worked with members of our International department faculty and external colleagues to launch a series of courses covering the different areas of the art market world.

Thanks to our interactive platform, participants learn through video presentations and readings, but they also have the opportunity to exchange views with the tutor and the other participants through a blog. This interaction with a lively and enthusiastic community is an added value to our distance-learning art market courses.

Online Art Market Courses

We offer three beginner-level courses that give a good understanding of the essential foundations of today’s art market:

  • Course no. 1 How does the art market work, designed by Jeremy Eckstein, a business consultant and financier in London, describes the art market as a global business, exploring how the different segments of the market interact.
  • Course No. 2 The Art Market as a Global Business, designed by Sarah Thelwall, strategy expert, consultant to creative institutions and companies, and founder of MyCake.org, an online business specializing in financial management and business benchmarking. Her courses cover the different sectors of the art market and how the various institutions and individuals interact and are connected in the contemporary art market.
  • Course No. 3 Emerging art markets and the digital age, designed by Filip Vermeylen, professor of global art markets at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and his colleague Payal Aorara, associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and founder and executive director of Catalyst Lab. This course introduces the different development characteristics of certain emerging markets and offers a better understanding of the new players in the art world.

Our online art market courses offer hands-on experience and important insights for anyone who wants to learn more about the structures and economics of the contemporary art market. IESA arts&culture awards ECTS credits to participants who choose to validate the course.