TIAMSA Annual Conference

TIAMSA held its first conference in 2017, bringing together academics, professionals and art market specialists from around the globe. After gatherings in London, Vienna, Lisbon, Edinburgh and Berlin  we hosted a successful sixth annual conference in Berlin in September 2022.

From 4th – 5th July 2024, the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań will host the 8th annual conference of The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA). The 2025 conference has two main themes, Geopolitical relations and how these affect the art market, for example in the flow of objects, investment trends, etc. There will be a special focus on emergency situations and how this has impacted the art market and artists, including lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and situations of political unrest.

Technological development, particularly AI and its use in art creation as well as art market analysis and authentication, and the creation of new art platforms and ways of interacting with artwork (e.g. Metaverse). Technological development brings a plethora of new options for the art markets. It influences artist workshops, art market analysis, and the art offered on the market. The Pact for the Future foresees the importance of AI and new technologies in global development beyond 2030, which is
why this important issue has been chosen for inclusion in the 2025 annual debate.

Art Market – beyond 2030

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

4 – 5 July 2025

2025 Conference Details

Multiple Art Markets in an Expanding World: Artists, Agents, Networks, Exchanges

The University of Melbourne, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia

10 – 13 July 2024

2024 Conference Details

Towards a Sustainable Art Market?

Venue to be advised
Friday 30 June – Saturday 1 July

2023 Conference Details

The Image of the Art Market

Berlin, Technische Universität / Liebermann Villa am Wannsee
Monday 12 – Tuesday 13 September 2022

2022 Conference Details

Left: Titian, Portrait of Jacopo Strada, 1567/68, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, ©KHM-Museumsverband

The Art Market and The Museum: Ethics and Aesthetics of Institutional Collecting, Display and Patronage from c.1800 to the Present

Online – Hosted by the University of Edinburgh / National Galleries Scotland
6/7 May, 3 June and 15/16 July 2021

2021 Conference Details

2020 conference postponed due to COVID.

The Art Market and the Global South: New Perspectives and Plural Approaches 

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Lisbon
21-23 November 2019

2019 Conference Details

Art for the People? Questioning the Democratization of the Art Market

Belvedere Research Center / Dorotheum Department of Art History Vienna University, Vienna
27-29 Sept 2018

2018 Conference Details

The Art Fair
TIAMSA’s first international conference

Sotheby’s Institute of Art London
13- 15 July 2017

2017 Conference Details