Assorted book covers and title pages from the WPI Sales Catalogues Database, Photos: © The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
LIVE ONLINE EVENT // TU Berlin-Zoom
Samantha Rowe, New York
Digital Tools for Provenance Research: Exploring the WPI Sales Catalogues Database
Date: July 14, 2025, 18:15-19:45 CEST
TU Berlin Zoom-Link: https://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69046688680?pwd=bEb9ywWXWublsJfw9cWT3jrRpS3D9r.1
SODa/Fokum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Save-the-Date // Conference 2025
Digital Turn. Collections – Provenances – Markets (November 27-28, 2025, Berlin)
Conference organised by the Centre for Art Market Studies in cooperation with the Department of Digital Provenance at TU Berlin and SODa – Collections, Objects, Data Literacy / HU Berlin
Date: Thursday, 27 November and Friday, 28 November 2025
Venue: Zentrum für Kulturtechnik/HU Berlin
Concept and organisation: Gabriele Zöllner, Meike Hopp and Dorothee Wimmer
© Fokum
SYMPOSIUM 2024
Antisemitische Symbole in Kunstobjekten (Hybrid Event, 5.–6. Dezember 2024)
Symposium organised by the Centre for Art Market Studies in cooperation with the Department of Digital Provenance at TU Berlin and the Chair of Art Education at HFBK Hamburg
Concept and organisation: Meike Hopp, Nora Sternfeld and Dorothee Wimmer, with the assistance of Gabriele Zöllner
Review: Birgit Rieger, Berlin, in: Tagesspiegel, December 10, 2024
In the 1950s, the planned construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened the accessibility and architectural integrity of Ramses II’s two temples at Abu Simbel. As a world wide joint project, the temples were dismantled and rebuilt on a higher plateau between 1963 and 1968. Source: Forskning & Framsteg 3, 1967, p. 161 / Wikimedia Commons.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2023
++will be published open access by arthistoricum.net-ART-Books in 2025++
Art Transportation in Times of War and Peace
Date: November 9-10, 2023
International Symposium of the Centre for Art Market Studies in cooperation with the Department of Digital Provenance at Technische Universität Berlin and the Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst
The symposium opened on Thursday, November 9, 2023, with a panel discussion about “Krieg in Europa – Art Handling” (in German, with registration). Conference date: Friday, November 10, 2023, online (TU Zoom). Conference language was English.
Concept: Meike Hopp, Thomas Steinruck, Dorothee Wimmer and Gabriele Zöllner
Arrival of relief goods at the Khanenko Museum, Kyiv, March 2022; Image: Ukraine Art Aid Center.
RECORDING OF THE PANEL DISCUSSION
Krieg in Europa – Art Handling
Download (in German): click here
(Live recording, not an edited podcast version)
The panel discussion took place on November 9, 2023 at the Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst.
It was part of the international symposium Art Transportation in Times of War and Peace.
Hacha. “Bliss Coll. from Dehesa” noted on verso, date unknown. Stendahl Art Galleries Records, 2017.M.38, b32, f4, Getty Research Institute.
LATEST ISSUE: JOURNAL FOR ART MARKET STUDIES (JAMS)
Collecting Latin America
Volume 7, Number 1, 2023
Guest Editor: Martin Berger
Contributions by Anna Antonini, Martin Berger, Caroline Fernandes Caromano, Mariana Francozo, Viola Koenig, Mary E Miller, Megan O’Neil, Carolina Orsini, Payton Phillips Quintanilla, Andrew D. Turner, Federica Villa
This issue examines the influence that art market actors (specifically dealers and collectors) had on the formation of collections in museums in Europe and the United States. The focus lies on Latin America, looking primarily at archaeological collections but also briefly examining the lively trade in and market for ethnographic items that existed in the twentieth century.
© Fokum 2021; Image Detail: Philipp Deines, Untitled, 2015.
OPEN ACCESS: FOKUM eEVENING LECTURES
The lecture series of the Centre for Art Market Studies is dedicated to interdisciplinary and inter-institutional exchange for current research on the art market and its history.
Due to the pandemic, the past evening lectures are available open access on KuK TU Berlin – YouTube.
Max Slevogt: Die Auktion der Sammlung Huldschinsky in Berlin, 1928, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, Quelle: Wikimedia Commons/CC-PD.
*** CANCELLATION OF THE LONG NIGHT OF THE SCIENCES 2020 ***
During the “Sommernachtssalon: 100 Jahre Groß-Berlin” at the Long Night of the Sciences of the TU Berlin Prof. Dr. Meike Hopp (Berlin) and Dr. Dorothee Wimmer (Berlin) will talk about:
Goldene Zwanziger Jahre? Berliner Society zwischen Luxussteuer und Kunstrausch
Date: 06/06/2020, 8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. *** cancelled ***
Venue: Foyer der Universitätsbibliothek der TU Berlin, VOLKSWAGEN-Haus, Fasanenstraße 88, 10623 Berlin
“Das Kunst-Stück der DDR. Wie ein staatseigener Betrieb Bilder und Antiquitäten zu Devisen macht”, art, No. 2, 1984, p. 72.
EVENING LECTURE
Xenia Schiemann, M.A., Berlin:
Eiserner Vorhang zwischen Ost und West?
Kunsthandel zwischen der Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH der DDR und dem Londoner Auktionshaus Christie’s
Date: 10/02/2020, 6:15 p.m.
Venue: Room A 111, Architecture Building of the TU, Straße des 17. Juni 150/152, 10623
© Wikipedia
JOURNAL FOR ART MARKET STUDIES:
LATEST ISSUE
The Global Art Market under the Spanish Empire 1500-1800
Volume 3, Number 2, 2019
Guest Editor: Pilar Diez del Corral
The issue “The Global Art Market under the Spanish Empire 1500-1800”, guest-edited by Pilar Diez del Corral, explores aspect of the artistic market under the auspices of the Spanish Empire in a vast geographic context, with intricate commercial and human networks. The global economy of this period transplanted Castilian society overseas, including art markets, with two-way trade routes.
