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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

Concept and organisation: Gabriele Zöllner, Meike Hopp and Dorothee Wimmer

Conference Report: Dorothee Haffner (Februar 6,2026). https://arthist.net/reviews/51685
Review: Rebekka Reichert (Dezember 17, 2025). https://sammlungen.io/blog/rueckblick-auf-die-konferenz-digital-turn-sammlungen-provenienzen-maerkte

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SYMPOSIUM 2024

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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

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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.

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

Directions to Room A 111

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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.

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Weltkunst, Vol. VIII, Nr. 25, June 24th, 1934, 1/ Gazette de L’Hôtel Drouot, Vol. 49, Nr. 34,  Octobre 3rd, 1940, 1.

GERMAN-FRENCH RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2018-2019
ART MARKET AND ART COLLECTING FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT IN GERMANY AND FRANCE

Paris, France, 11-13 March 2019
Berlin, Germany, 8-10 November 2018

The German-French Research Programme 2018–2019 “Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France” is organised by the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies at TU Berlin and the Centre Georg Simmel at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in collaboration with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris. The German-French Research Programme 2018–2019 is funded by the UFA/DFH.

Reviews:
Elena Maria Rita Rizzi, Florence, in: H/Soz/Kult, 25/01/19
Vanessa von Kolpinski, Berlin, in: ArtHist.net, 6/02/2019

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JOURNAL FOR ART MARKET STUDIES:
LATEST ISSUE 

Politics
Volume 3, Number 1, 2019

Guest Editor: Kathryn Brown

The latest issue of The Journal for Art Market Studies explores intersections between politics and art markets from the first half of twentieth century to the present. Discussions range from specific policies in different political systems with diverse forms of government that have impacted, or impact, on the marketing and acquisition of art objects to broader political decisions that shape, or have shaped, background social beliefs about the value of art and its institutions.

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