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 10th – 13th July 2024, the University of Melbourne will host the 7th annual conference of The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA). As the first iteration of TIAMSA to be staged outside Europe, the TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 aims to engage with current and emerging perspectives on the art market with a particular focus on the implications and challenges created by the evolving and expanding diversified world art markets of the 21st century.

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