About this Event
Jointly organized by Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Colnaghi Foundation, this international conference seeks to explore the aesthetic, intellectual, and financial links between commercial and institutional curatorial practices, their synergies, the ways in which they have influenced each other, and their impact on value systems and market fortunes.
The conference will adopt a broad historical and geographical perspective. Positioned at the intersection of academic scholarship and professional practice, its interdisciplinary approach aims to provide fertile ground for discussion among academics, art market professionals, curators, and collectors, encouraging reflection on curatorial networks of exchange and interlocking dialogues, both past and present, between public institutions and the art trade.
Tickets will include refreshments and an evening reception at Colnaghi, 26 Bury Street, SW1Y 6AL on 14 February.
FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3EE
9.15-9.45: Coffee and Registration
9.45-10.00: Welcome
10.00-11.00: SESSION 1: PRIVATE COLLECTORS AND MUSEUMS
Dr Dorothee Wimmer (Technische Universität Berlin), Curating Loan Exhibitions: Bode’s Art Market Strategies as an Institutional Collector
Aisha Tahir & Isabella Warnham (V&A), From Private to Public: Curating the Gilbert Collection at the V&A
11.00-11.15: Q&A FOR SESSION 1
11.15-11.45: Coffee Break
11.45-12.45: SESSION 2: CURATING LUXURY
Dr Vera Mariz (Gulbenkian Museum), Consulting Lalique: Curatorial Perspectives on the Gulbenkian Collection
Amalia Nangeroni (IULM University, Milan), Curatorial Strategies in Cartier’s Exhibition History: Shaping Cultural Narratives in Luxury
12.45-13.00: Q&A FOR SESSION 2
13.00-14.00: LUNCH
14.00 – 16.30: SESSION 3: MODERNISMS
Dr Morna O’Neill (Wake Forest University), Hugh Lane and his Galleries
Dr Natalia Murray (Courtauld Institute of Art), Malevich’s Black Square and the First Woman-Gallerist in Russia
15.00-15.30: Tea Break
Dr Charlie Miller (University of Manchester), title tbc
Dr Clarissa Ricci (University of Bologna), Questioning the Impact of curatorial choices on the art market, examples from 20th century exhibitions in Venice
16.30-17.00: Q&A FOR SESSION 3
17.00-18.00: Panel discussion with Martin Levy, Jorge Coll, Henry Little.
18.30-20.00: Drinks reception hosted by Colnaghi, 26 Bury Street, London SW1 Y6AL
SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3EE
10.00-12.30: SESSION 4 - GLOBAL NETWORKS
Dr Ester Prieto Ustio (Seville University), The Art Market Between Spain and New Spain: Transatlantic Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Early 17th Century
Shatavisha Mustafi (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) "One Exhibition and Two Auctions Later... An Investigation of Events that Led to the Creation of Modern Indian Art as a Market Category"
11.00-11.30: Coffee Break
Dr Katie Hill (SIA London), Strange Wonders. Curating contemporary Chinese ink in the 21st Century
Cindy Tibazarwa (Independent Scholar), Curatorial Influence and Market Fortunes: African Contemporary Art in Diasporic Collections
12.30-13.00: Q&A FOR SESSION 4
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: SESSION 5 - CONTEMPORARY CURATING AND ART MARKETS
Stephanie Dieckvoss (Courtauld Institute of Art), Artist curating in commercial galleries and art fairs: A focus on the 1990s
Dr Adelaide Duarte (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), The atelier as a concept, the artist as a curator
15.00-15.15: Q&A FOR SESSION 5
15.15-15.45: Tea Break
15.45-16.45: SESSION 6 - CURATING ART MARKET HISTORIES
Dr Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University), Auction Houses and the Curation of Art Market Knowledge
Dr Mark Westgarth (University of Leeds), Curating SOLD at the Bowes Museum
16.45-17.00: Q&A FOR SESSION 6
17.00-17.15: Concluding Remarks
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sotheby's Institute of Art, Bedford Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55 to GBP 65.71
