Conference 2025

Digital Turn. Collections – Provenances – Markets

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

Download: CfP Digital Turn 2025

How is the digital transformation – from big data to AI – reshaping collection, provenance and art market research today and in the future? What are the key characteristics, methods, challenges and potentials of such digital research approaches? What data skills are required to engage in such research? Furthermore, what structural framework conditions need to be established or strengthened to support transdiciplinary research that combines quantifying and qualifying questions?

The conference aims to bring together researchers, IT experts and practitioners from GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) institutions, universities and the art and antiques trade to discuss the challenges, opportunities and solutions associated with the ‘digital turn’. We welcome contributions from all disciplines engaged in collection, provenance and art market research (archaeology, ethnology, history, cultural and social anthropology, art history, natural history, palaeontology, zoology, botany, medicine, law, and related fields). 

Programme

The conference will take place in a lunch-to-lunch format, i.e. arrival at the conference will be possible from 13:00 on Thursday, 27 November 2025; the conference is expected to start at 14:00. The conference will end on Friday, 27 November 2025 at around 13:30.

The detailed programme will follow soon.

Conference languages are German and English. No conference fee will be charged.

Venue

Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Campus Nord, Studiensaal in the Gerlach Building (House 3), Philippstr. 13, 10117 Berlin

Organiser

SODa – Collections, Objects, Data Literacy at the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in cooperation with the Department of Digital Provenance and the Centre for Art Market Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin

Concept

Gabriele Zöllner (HU Berlin/SODa – Collections, Objects, Data Literacy), Meike Hopp (TU Berlin/Digital Provenance) and Dorothee Wimmer (TU Berlin/Centre for Art Market Studies)

If you have any questions about the CfP, the topic or the conference, please send an e-mail to: gabriele.zoellner@hu-berlin.de.