ANN: Lecture series “RES(T)ITUTE: Provenance, Collection, Responsibility/Ringvorlesung: RES(T)ITUIEREN. Provenienz, Sammlung, Verantwortung” (Ruhr University, 27 Oct 2022 – 8 Feb 2023)
RES(T)ITUIEREN: Provenienz, Sammlung, Verantwortung Die Ringvorlesung widmet sich grundsätzlichen Fragen der Provenienzforschung, die sich seit einigen Jahren nicht nur in der Aufarbeitung und Rückgabe von NS-Raubkunst, sondern besonders in der Debatte um die…
ANN: ARTKHADE 2010-2022 Report: 12 Years of Market Evolution in the Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas
Between 2010 and 2021, non-European art sales reached $971.8m. More importantly, global turnover has more than doubled over the past twelve years, rising from $61m in 2010 to $127.5m in 2021, the best year…
ANN: Yaëlle Biro – African Arts’ Secondary Market. Market Definition and Networks in the Early 20th century (Forum Kunst & Markt, TU Berlin; recorded online lecture now available)
The first two decades of the 20th century constitute a pivotal art historical moment for the reception of African arts in the West. It continues today to largely define the discourses constructed around African objects…
ANN: Lecture Series – Forum Kunst und Markt / Center for Art Market Studies (TU Berlin / online, 9 May-27 Jun 2022; in English and German)
African Arts’ Secondary Market. Market Definition and Networks in the Early 20th Century PROGRAMME: VIDEO // KuK TU Berlin YouTubeDr. Nicolas Galley, ZürichNFTs and Other Techs in Times of Crisis. New Digital Art…
CONF: Pioneers of African Contemporary Art / Pionniers de l’art africain contemporain (INHA, Paris, 11&12 April 2022)
At the invitation of the National Institute of Art History, Riason Naidoo offers a meeting dedicated to the pioneering figures of contemporary African art. Designed as conversations with multiple voices, this symposium will…
CONF: Looking Forward, Looking Back – Itinerant artists between African and German-speaking countries, 1950s to 1970s (online / Universität Zürich, 16-17 Dec 2021)
The symposium aims to launch international research about itinerant artists who travelled between various African and German-speaking countries from the 1950s to the 1970s. It seeks to collate and analyse multiple transcultural exchanges between…
ANN: Parcours d’objets : La mise en place d’un marché des arts africains en contexte colonial (video of a seminar at the INHA Paris, 23 Sept 2021; in French)
Session d’ouverture de la seconde année du séminaire de parcours d’objets sur les études de provenances des collections d’art « extra-occidental ». Nous attachant tout d’abord au contexte colonial d’acquisition des objets africains…
ANN: Presentation of the Project “Digital Benin” (in English), (DZK & CARMAH / online, 11 Oct 2021, 6pm CEST)
Digital Benin (digital-benin.org) will digitally unite the globally dispersed works of art from the Kingdom of Benin and as an unparalleled forum of knowledge, it will bring together object data and related documentation…
CFP: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research (Vitromusée Romont, Switzerland 15 Sep 2022)
Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research Provenance research is not only a central field of museum activity, but has also increasingly become the focus of academic research. The topic…