Notes on Contributors
The Editors
Adelaide Duarte
is art historian, Researcher and Deputy Director at the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Assistant Professor and Executive Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program “Art Market and Collecting”, at FCSH, since its first edition in 2016. She coordinates the TIAMSA subcommittee “Art Market and Collecting: Portugal, Spain and Brazil”. Ph.D. in Museology and Cultural Heritage (2012) at the Coimbra University, she held a post-doctoral position at FCSH, analyzing private collections of modern and contemporary art in Portugal. Her research interests cover topics such as collecting practices, art fairs and biennials, and issues around the periphery and the Global South. As an author specialized in the history of the Portuguese art market, she contributes to the Art Market Dictionary by Bloomsbury, London; and recently it was published with her coordination: Diálogos de colecionar. [22] colecionadores de arte em Portugal. Lisboa: Veritas Art Auctionners, 2022.
Marta Pérez-Ibáñez
PhD in History and Arts, University of Granada, Spain. Master’s Degree in Art History, Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain. Professor at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain, specialized in contemporary art market, with thirty years’ experience in management, research and graduate teaching in and out of Spain. Member of several associations: Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo IAC, Mujeres en las Artes Visuales MAV and The International Art Market Studies Association TIAMSA. Member of the research clusters Art market and collecting in Portugal, Spain and Brazil (AMC_PSB), TIAMSA’s subcommittee, and Ecosistema del Arte, interuniversitary, and has also contributed from 2015 to 2018 to Cross-sectional Surveys in Contemporary Artistic Creation, Nebrija University. Section Editor specialized in the Spanish and Portuguese art markets at Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK, working on the publication of Bloomsbury Art Markets. Co-author and Coordinator of the research studies La Actividad Económica de los/las Artistas en España (2017) and Desigualdad de género en el Sistema del arte en España (2020).
The Authors
Ginevra Addis
obtained her Ph.D. in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage at IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca (IT) in December 2019. She has been an Adjunct Professor in the Master of Arts Management since 2017 and an Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art Management in the Master of Economics, Arts and Entertainment since 2019 both at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (IT). She published the book “The re-identification of Pop Art: its reception from an Italian perspective” with European Press Academic Publishing. She also published several contributions for Edward Elgar, Ledizione Press, Accademia University Press, ENCATC and Postmediabooks.
Jonathan Adeyemi
BA in Fine Arts, MA in African Studies, and MBA. His Ph.D. research in Arts Management and Cultural Policy at Queen’s University Belfast explored the internationalization of contemporary art from marginalized regions, with a focus on Africa. He won the 2021 Ph.D. Research Award of the Sociology of Arts Network, the European Sociological Association (ESA). He is the author of “Systematization of art in Nigeria,” in the forthcoming Arts Management, Cultural Policy & the African Diaspora by Palgrave Macmillan. Adeyemi coordinated creative arts curriculum development in the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) between 2009 and 2017.
Anita Archer
is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ERCC (Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Contemporary Culture) Research Unit at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is an art historian whose research centres on cultural ecologies with a focus on the network effects and valuation mechanisms of global art markets. Her publications investigate art market evolutions, global art hubs and art economy ecosystems. Her recent monograph ‘Chinese Contemporary Art in the Global Art Auction Market’ (Brill, 2022) illuminates the role that international auction houses played in the emerging global market for Chinese Contemporary art. Her research is augmented by her extensive professional experience in the global art field as an international auctioneer and as an independent art consultant specialising in Asian contemporary art.
Shambhavi Bhat
MA Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2021. During her degree, she focused her research on Creative Entrepreneurship in Mumbai, looking at the intersections of family background, upbringing and forms of capital. Previously, she was Head of Programmes and Development at What About Art? Arts Management Agency and Artist Residency in Mumbai, and Deputy Director of The Mumbai Art Room, a non-profit gallery and curatorial lab. She holds a BA in Fine Art and Art History from Goldsmiths University of London, where she focused on post-colonial and feminist theory, and practiced mixed media and performance art.
Joanna Bialynicka-Birula
Prof. CUE Ph.D. hab. at Cracow University of Economics (Poland). Her research activity comprises more than sixty publications in scientific papers, concerning mainly art market analysis, art value, art trade, international art trade, art market policy, art auctions, etc., and more than twenty statutory researches in the field of cultural economics. She was Chair of the research project for the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage “Art Market in Poland” (2008) presenter at numerous scientific conferences, and lecturer at International Cultural Center in Cracow (postgraduate studies) with a subject Contemporary Art Market in Poland. Member of TIAMSA.
Mary Corrigall
is a Cape Town-based researcher focussed on mapping creative economies in Africa. She is well-known arts critic and commentator and consultant. In 2016 she established an art research consultancy with a focus on an analysis of developments in contemporary art. Under the Corrigall & Co imprint she has published six volumes that include; Contemporary African Art Ecology: A Decade of Curating (2018), Africa’s Top 50 artists and Top 20 Curators who Validated them (2019), Joburg’s Art Fairs (2019) and The South African Art Market: Pricing & Patterns (2020). Her purview has extended to developments in the digital arts sectors in Africa. Her research in this area has been channelled through reports for the South African Cultural Observatory based at the Nelson Mandela University.
Ana Letícia Fialho
is a Cultural Manager, teacher and researcher. She holds a PhD in Art and Language Sciences from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris; a Master in Cultural Management and Project Development from the University of Lyon II; and is Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. In the academic sphere, she has dedicated herself to studying cultural policies and the dynamics of the visual arts system, with particular emphasis on the art market. She is currently the executive director of Museu A CASA do Objeto Brasileiro. She was Coordinator of the New Museum of Ipiranga Project (2020–2022), Visiting Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Art History at Unifesp (2019–2020), Director of the Department of Productive Strategy of the Secretariat for the Economy of Culture of the Ministry of Culture. Cultura (2016–2018) and Executive Curator of the Permanent Forum: Art Museums between Public and Private (2007–2013). Between 2012 and 2022, she provided commercial intelligence consultancy for the Brazilian Association of Contemporary Art (ABACT) within the scope of the Latitude Project, aimed at the internationalization of the Brazilian contemporary art market, where she coordinated the first four editions of the Latitude Sectorial Research on the contemporary art market in Brazil.
Burhan Fındıklı
is a Researcher who holds a doctoral degree from the Department of Government, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interests span higher education studies, public policy, social theory, and the sociology of cultural and intellectual production. He has recently published several peer-reviewed articles on topics related to institutional and policy change in higher education.
Raffaella Frascarelli
is a transdisciplinary academic, Scientific Director of Nomas Foundation and Scientific Co-Director of the Research Unit’s Laboratory Aesthetics in the Social, DiSSE, Sapienza University of Rome. Among her research, (2022) “Epistemologies of the South for Re-imagining Education through Artists’ Practices”, Scuola democratica, Learning for Democracy 2, 295–310; (2020) Art Market and the Sociocultural Space, Economia della Cultura XXX.2; (2016) Par tibi, Roma, nihil, Milan: Electa. In press (2023), “‘Books are Made for Use, not to be Hidden Away’ Sefer Ḥasidim. The Case of the Jewish Library of Rome” and Valerio Rocco Orlando. A Sud dell’Immaginazione, Rome: Quodlibet.
Busra Hasboyaci
is a London-based Art Consultant and Researcher. She specialises in the economic and sociological analysis of artwork valuation and collecting practices in the art market.
Michael Hutter
Professor Emeritus at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). He was Director of the research unit „Cultural Sources of Newness“ at WZB and Research Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin. Before that, he held the Chair for Theory of the Economy and its Social Environment at Witten/Herdecke University. He was Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio and at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Among his recent publications are “The Rise of the Joyful Economy. Artistic Innovation and Economic Growth from Brunelleschi to Murakami” (Routledge, 2015) and “Moments of Valuation. Exploring Sites of Dissonance” (co-editor with Ariane Berthoin Antal and David Stark, Oxford U. Press, 2015).
Alexandre Melo
is Professor of Sociology of Culture (ISCTE-IUL), Curator and Art Critic. Since the early 1980s he has written for publications such as “JL”, “Expresso”, “El País”, “Flash Art” or “Parkett”. He is a regular contributor to “Artforum”. He organized exhibitions in Portugal and abroad (10 Contemporary, Serralves; Eduardo Batarda, Gulbenkian, Venice Biennial – Julião Sarmento, Biennial of São Paulo – Rui Chafes / Vera Mantero, etc.). Recent exhibitions: Liquid Skin – Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Joaquim Sapinho, MAAT; Roi Soleil – Albert Serra, Galeria Graça Brandão, Palácio Pombal. He has authored Films/Documentaries on various artists and Television and Radio cultural and art programs. He published books, among them “O Crítico Cúmplice”, “Arte e Poder na Era Global”, “Triunfo da Crise Económica”, “Sistema da Arte Contemporânea”, “Velocidades Contemporâneas”, “Aventuras no Mundo da Arte”, “Globalização Cultural”, “Arte e Mercado em Portugal”, “Arte e Artistas em Portugal”, “Julião Sarmento” and “Arte Pop & Cia”.
Jeremie Molho
is Senior Research Associate at the Toronto Metropolitan University. He received a BA in Middle Eastern studies and a MA in urban studies from Sciences Po Paris and completed his PhD in geography in 2016 at the University of Angers. He held post-doctoral positions at the European University Institute in Florence and at the National University of Singapore. His dissertation analysed the emergence of cities as new centres of the global art market. He conducted field research on emerging art markets in Istanbul, Singapore, Hong Kong and Doha.
Valerio Rocco Orlando
is an Artist and Professor of Multimedia Dramaturgy at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Through practices ranging from workshops to video installations, he conceives art as a process of mutual knowledge and understanding. His works are held in public and private collections, including: A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana; Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; La Galleria Nazionale, Rome; MACRO, Rome; MAGA, Gallarate; Mart, Rovereto; Museo del Novecento, Milan; MUSMA, Matera; Nomas Foundation, Rome; VAF Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main; Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese.
Jimena Peña Bennett
Ph.D. Cum Laude in Business Economics from Autónoma de Madrid University researching entrepreneurship’s relevance for visual artists and Magister in Art Market & Related Enterprises at Antonio de Nebrija University, where she became an Associate Online Professor in Emerging Regions: China, India and Latin America. She has coordinated the undergraduate and postgraduate Cultural Management programs at Univ. EAN in Bogotá, has been temporary assistant in galleries and art fairs in Madrid and has broad experience in leading Iberoamerican cultural networking. Currently, she is Founder&Director at KONTUNDENTE, a consultant firm for arts sustainability and a curatorial platform in collective intelligence.
Alain Quemin
is an exceptional class Professor of Sociology of Art, a researcher at Groupe d’Etude des Méthodes d’Analyse Sociologique de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne Université) and a Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France. He holds a PhD from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is a past President of the sociology of art research committee of the International Sociological Association and a past Vice-President of the sociology of art research group of the European Sociological Association. His most recent book is Le monde des galeries. Art contemporain, structure du marché et internationalisation (Paris, CNRS Editions, 2021).
Filip Vermeylen
(PhD Columbia University 2002) is Professor of Global Art Markets at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. He lectures and publishes on various aspects of the economics of art and culture, and is currently Research Director of the Department of Arts and Culture Studies. He is especially interested in the history and functioning of art markets since the Renaissance, the notion of quality in the visual arts, the role of intermediaries as arbiters of taste and emerging art markets such as India. He is a board member of The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA). More information on Filip Vermeylen’s scholarly work and a full CV can be found here: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/filip-vermeylen.
John Zarobell
is a Professor of International Studies at the University of San Francisco. Formerly, he held the positions of Assistant Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Associate Curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His first book, Empire of Landscape, focuses upon visual culture in colonial Algeria and was published in 2010. Art and the Global Economy, published in 2017, analyzes major changes in the art world as a result of globalization. He is currently working on a long-term research project on Emerging Asian Megacities and the role of arts in urban development.