Adriana Turpin is the lead professor of the MBA art&collecting management at IESA arts&culture and is part of the organization of this workshop.
This workshop is the sixth in the series of international workshops "Tools for the Future: Researching Art Market Practices from Past to Present," established in 2017 by Elisabetta Lazzaro (Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts), Nathalie Moureau (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), and Adriana Turpin (IESA, Paris & Society for the History of Collecting). Through individual presentations followed by group discussions, the series aims to bring together researchers from different disciplines and fields of art market study to confront key questions and related methodologies that can add knowledge and evidence on the structures and principles of the art market.
The first workshop took place in June 2018; since then, they have organized workshops every year, respectively on: art collectors (Montpellier, June 2018); the artist as entrepreneur and career paths (Utrecht, December 2018); training and the development of new markets (London, June 2019); communication strategies (Rome, November 2019); and the legal structures of the art market (Ljubljana, September 2020).
The migration of artworks, from the studio to the gallery, from one nation’s private collections to another’s public museums, from seller to buyer, and from the primary market to the secondary market, was explored and analyzed by the previous workshops. The art market is a highly entrepreneurial and peripheral market, and the banking, financing, and support strategies deployed or relied on by the various players in this art market have given rise to complex transactions, investments, and protections of interests. The sixth workshop, organized by CREW - the Centre de recherche sur le monde anglophone of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and IESA Arts & Culture, the International School of Cultural Professions and the Art Market, will address the monetary flows that underpin these migrations and transfers, in particular the financial strategies of the art market and how international or national financial structures influence purchasing power or the need to produce and sell.