The Art Business

BJӦRN GELDHOF, Artistic Director PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

In the early millennium Björn Geldhof took a Masters degree in Art History at Leuven University, Belgium.  Since graduating he has been involved in journalism, theatre and art curating including the post of Artistic and Strategic Director at Yarat Contmporary Art Space from 2015-2018.  From 2009 Björn has been involved with PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv where he is Artistic Director.  The Centre closed on 24 February 2022 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. 143 days later, earlier this week, it reopened with the exhibition  When Faith Moves Mountains which combines works on loan from Antwerp's contemporary art museum M HKA with contemporary Ukrainian art created during the war.  The Pinchuk Foundation also sponsors the Future Generation Art Prize for emerging  international artists as well as the Pinchuk Art Centre Prize for young Ukrainian artists  The prize boards include blue-chip international artists such as Gursky, Hirst, Koons, Murakami and Sir Elton John and the short-listed artists are exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

 

Useful links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bj%C3%B6rn-geldhof-49a0277/

https://pinchukfund.org/en/ 

https://new.pinchukartcentre.org/en 

https://futuregenerationartprize.org/

https://prize.pinchukartcentre.org/en/about

 

 

 

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DONGMIN KIM, prize-winning photographer and client liaison officer at Artlogic London

Dongmin Kim is an Art Business graduate from Sotheby's Institute of Art, class of 2020. She currently works at Artlogic, the leading art technology company that designs and develops tech solutions for art galleries and art fairs, whilst running her own photography business on the weekends.  She recently won the Portrait category for Rugby Photographer of the Year 2022 and is the official club photographer for Richmond FC.  In 2021 Dongmin started working for the Barbarians FC - the world's most famous invitational international touring side. She initially began building her photography career for clients in theatre but eventually found many similarities between the theatrical physicality of rugby and fast-paced musicals and ballets. 

 

When she's not at Artlogic or hefting her camera around rugby stadiums, she can be found wild-swimming, perusing artisan bakeries and Nigerian art. Originally from South Korea, Dongmin has worked and studied in Munich, Los Angeles, Seoul and London. 

 

instagram: @dante.k.photo

 

https://www.dantekphotography.com/

 

 

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HENRY LYDIATE, international artists’ lawyer, business advisor and art world lecturer

Henry Lydiate is a scholar-practitioner and former Visiting Professor of Art Law, University of the Arts, London, and has been a Course Consultant and Visiting Lecturer in legal, business, and professional practice studies at major art schools in the UK since 1978, including Sotheby's Institute of Art London.

Publications include The Visual Artist and the Law, The Visual Artist’s Copyright Handbook, Visual Arts and Crafts Guide to the New Laws of Copyright and Moral Rights. 

Henry is Founding partner of The Henry Lydiate Partnership LLP, the international arts business consultancy whose current clients include: artists; artists’ estates; collectors; agents & dealers; art fairs; auction houses; foundations; and public-facing art institutions.

 

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ANDERS PETTERSON, Founder & MD ArtTactic

Anders Petterson is a leading authority on the art market, with particular focus on the modern and  contemporary  emerging  art  markets.  He is  the  Founder  and  Managing  Director  of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and advisory company set up in 2001.  Educated at LSE, Anders' career started in the finance world working for JP Morgan.  In 2000 he set up the web-based art market research firm ArtTactic, which borrows the techniques of the financial world to analyse and predict trends in the contemporary art market.  Since 2005 Anders has been a Consultant Lecturer and dissertation supervisor for the MA Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art London, where he focuses on art as an alternative investment asset.

 

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ALEXANDRA BASS, Founder & CEO Salon 21, New York

Alex Bass graduated with Distinction from the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art London in 2021 with her dissertation on 'Creating an Art Business in a Covid-19 Era'.

Alex is Communications Coordinator at Gagosian Gallery New York.  She is founder and CEO of Salon 21 which introduces emerging artists to likeminded art lovers and collectors in hosted salon-style New York conversations.  Alex is also socially active in encouraging less privileged people to become involved in the art world.

https://www.salontwenty-one.com/home

instagram @salon.21

 

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ELSA ÅKESSON, contemporary artist and sustainability entrepreneur

Elsa Åkesson is a 25-year-old New York City based contemporary artist and entrepreneur. As a 2020 Fine Art bachelors graduate from the University of the Arts London and a 2022 Sotheby’s Institute masters graduate in Art Business, Elsa has managed to combine both her passion for painting with that of business.  Today, Elsa focuses her career on the development of her studio practice, and her promising start-up SPONGY BAGS.  This start-up has received Sotheby’s Institute’s recognition on May 18^th, 2022, by gaining the Gavel Prize, and has as its core mission - to shift the way we package art, create a sustainable impact.

 

@elsalovespaint @spongybags www.spongybags.com

 

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16 NICHOLSON STREET GALLERY & ARTS COLLECTIVE: with curators Aga Paulina Młyńczak & Nell Cardozo

16 Nicholson Street Gallery is a Glasgow-based, non-profit arts facilitation space run by a curatorial collaborative. The gallery was established in 2016 and all organisation and programming is managed by Isabella Shields, Nell Cardozo, and Aga Paulina Młyńczak.

Today's guests are the two curators Aga and Nell.  Aga is an Artist and Producer interested in media, electronics, and sculptural work. Nell is the Community Outreach officer for 16 Nicholson Street and leads the community programme ‘Freedom in Abstraction, Power in Creativity’ in partnership with Empower Women for Change.

For more information: https://16nicholsonstreet.org/ 

 

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JEREMY ECKSTEIN, ART MARKET STATISTICIAN & ART INVESTMENT FUND EXPERT

Jeremy Eckstein is a statistician by training. He started his professional life as a fund manager before joining Sotheby's Auction House in 1979 as Head of Research for the company, with responsibility for monitoring the performance of the British Railways Pension Fund's fine art investment portfolio. An independent consultant in the art market since 1990, Eckstein has done a broad range of commissioned research, carrying out surveys for the art trade and producing a variety of statistics and economic analyses. His publications include a major survey for TEFAF Maastricht on the economic impact of art fairs (2006).

 

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ALICIA LIVINGSTONE, CURATOR & DIRECTOR, LIVINGSTONE ST IVES, CORNWALL

Alicia Livingstone opened her first contemporary art gallery in the Cornish seaside town of Perranporth in 2018, followed by the opening of a second gallery in the seaside artist's colony at St Ives in 2020.  Alice discusses how her art business was impacted by the pandemic and its series of lockdowns, and how she successfully navigated out of it towards opening a third gallery in Clifton, Bristol.

GEORGIA DYMOCK, EMERGING ARTIST, SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART

In my introduction to the catalogue of her current exhibition (to 9 April 2022) at JD Malat Gallery Mayfair, I wrote: 'Georgia Dymock is an emerging English artist whose paintings are conceived and born from a combination of digital technology and traditional painterly techniques...... Georgia says that she likes to constantly come close to and then distance herself from the making process by travelling both physically and mentally between the virtual and physical worlds.  This process has become an integral part of the majority of human lives since the start of the pandemic.  Georgia’s paintings are a visual metaphor of what has been happening and continues to happen in the hybrid world of our everyday lives where we distance one another in virtual worlds, sometimes even lose and then movingly rediscover one another in the physical world.  Georgia Dymock’s prophetic paintings help us to find wisdom, understanding and offer a healing mediation of our internal binary oppositions in this world turned upside down.'

 

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