Exhibtion
Haggle, Bid, Collect
Art Market

For those on the outside, the art market is opaque and often poses a mystery. Investing in art is chic, but finding out how much you have to spend on it first is not that easy. Trends are difficult to see from the outside, and being included in the circle of collectors leaves you perplexed at the beginning. The Art.Salon brings light into the darkness, where the art market is otherwise rather hidden.

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New art fair 2023: Tokyo Gendai

Gamechanger in Japan?

Tokyo Skyline

The art world is eagerly awaiting July 2023: That's when Tokyo Gendai, a new art fair opens that could have a significant impact on the market in Asia − if it's successful. Up to 100 international galleries will take part in the premiere.

by Marius Damrow, November 28, 2022
Kunstmarkt
Estimating the price is not always easy.

How to estimate the price of an artist's work

by Bettina Röhl, September 20, 2022

Art collectors, just like artists, are challenged to propose an adequate price for an object. In order to estimate the price correctly, one basically only has to follow the logic behind the calculation. When one is about to buy, some factors make this often tricky assessment easier.

Weng Fine Art makes voluntary offer to acquire Artnet shares
Weng Fine Art AG increases its share in Artnet AG with a voluntary purchase offer.

Artnet: forced to change structure?

October 24, 2022

Artnet AG's most important external shareholder, Weng Fine Art AG, wants to make a voluntary purchase offer to all shareholders - and drive its own share just below the 30% control threshold. In doing so, it reopens old wounds and pokes at Artnet's corporate structure - what is it up to?

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Sich Kunst als Wertanlage zuzulegen, ist zwar chic, aber äußerst ungewiss.

Why is the art market so opaque?

by Bettina Röhl, September 26, 2022

Those who buy real estate as an investment first seek advice. Location, condition, age, type of construction, size - the information flows and the price is fixed. The situation is different in the art market: Who actually sets the prices here?

Dive deeper into the art world

NFT
Beeple

Is Beeple the blueprint of an artist in the 21st century? How a computer scientist shook up the art world with NFTs.

Busts
Features

The art world has many stories to tell. Not every one gets the attention it deserves. The Art.Salon presents institutions and personalities that stand out through creativity and commitment and even give a voice to those who are otherwise not heard.

The Art.Salon reports on spectaculour auction results
Auction Market

90 Millionen Dollar für eine Arbeit von David Hockney, ein Warhol für 195 Millionen US-Dollar, Basquiats Untitled: 57 Millionen US-Dollar – Der Art.Salon hält die aberwitzigsten Auktionsergebnisse fest und berichtet über denkwürdige Versteigerungen.

Atelier
Artist Portraits

The art world has many stories to tell. Not every one gets the attention it deserves. The Art.Salon presents institutions and personalities that stand out through creativity and commitment and even give a voice to those who are otherwise not heard.

Man working at his atelier
Interviews

What affects your choice of colors? What made you start making artwork out of old books? You are in fact a mortician and now also gallery owner, how did that happen? Art.Salon allowed itself to ask artists questions that literally impose themselves when looking at the Art. The interviews with contemporary artists allow us to look deeply and understand better.

The poster for the Guerilla Girls\' campaign, which reads »Do Women Have to be Naked to Get Into the Met Museum?«
Controversy

Art makes politics – but that does not only refer to the work. Art politicizes itself not only through its creator. Also the scene reproduces injustices. The Art.Salon explored political controversies such as the gender pay gap and looted art.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

The life and work of an iconic artist who today regularly breaks auction records.

Maman vor dem Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Louise Bourgeois

The indomitable artist Louise Bourgeois stirred up the U.S. art world until she was nearly 100 years old. Born near Paris in 1911, she reckoned with her oppressive family history until her death in 2010: Ambiguous genitalia, morbid massacre installations, oversized spiders, and numerous other creative works bear witness to this cathartic process.

Key Visual der documenta fifteen
Documenta Fifteen

The documenta is considered one of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide. Every five years, Kassel's "Museum of 100 Days", as the documenta in Kassel is also called, welcomes artists, cultural workers and visitors.

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