Conversations | How to Overcome Gender Barriers in the Art Market?
Art Basel in Basel 2023, June 14
According to The Art Market 2023 report published by Art Basel and UBS, the share of female artists represented by galleries has risen steadily over the last few years. Yet, the market continues to significantly undervalue their work. What barriers still need to be overcome for women and other underrepresented groups to reach parity in the open market? Is there a difference between marketability and institutional visibility? Gallerist Amrita Jhaveri, curator Kate Fowle, and economists Clare McAndrew and Sophie Perceval come together with Charlotte Burns to cut through the buzz of the ‘ultra-contemporary’, and narratives around the rediscovery of ‘overlooked’ female artists, to discuss what progress is still to be made.
‣ Clare McAndrew, Founder, Arts Economics, Dublin
‣ Amrita Jhaveri, Director, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
‣ Kate Fowle, Curatorial Senior Director, Hauser & Wirth, New York
‣ Sophie Perceval, Co-Founder, Wondeur AI, Paris
‣ Moderator: Charlotte Burns, Founder, Studio Burns, London
‣ Dr Clare McAndrew is a cultural economist who specializes in the arts, antiques and collectibles markets. She completed her PhD in economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2001, where she also lectured and taught economics for four years. In 2002, Clare joined US firm Kusin & Company, a boutique investment banking firm specializing in art investment, as chief economist. After three years in the United States, Clare returned to Europe in 2005, and continued her work in the art market in a private research and consulting capacity for a global client base. She set up Arts Economics in 2005 to focus her efforts on art market research and analysis, and works with a network of private consultants and academic scholars in different regions around the world providing research and consulting services to the global art trade and financial sector.
‣ For 30 years, Kate Fowle has developed an international practice as a curator, writer, educator, and director working with institutions in the UK, China, Russia, and the United States. Currently she is the curatorial senior director at Hauser & Wirth. From 2019-2022 she was director of MoMA PS1. Prior to this she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and the executive director of Independent Curators International in New York.
‣ Sophie Perceval is the co-founder of Wondeur AI, a risk assessment platform for fine art assets. She best describes herself as a political scientist by training, an innovator by choice and an art advocate by passion. A former executive of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, she brings to Wondeur 20 years of experience working with top art world stakeholders – artists, curators, collectors, gallerists, art writers, museum directors, publishers and art fair organizers. With Wondeur, Sophie hopes to bring clarity to the complex dynamics of bias and value creation in the art world.
‣ Amrita Jhaveri has been working in the field of Modern and Contemporary Indian art since 1993. Having established Christie’s India in the early 1990s, she moved to London in 2000 and began to build her private collection of art from which she has loaned to museums worldwide. She has worked as an independent advisor, creating and managing private and corporate art collections; ambitious artist’s projects and large-scale commissions. In 2010, she established Jhaveri Contemporary, a gallery of Modern and Contemporary art, in Mumbai. Her research interests have resulted in exhibitions such as Thinking Tantra (Drawing Room, London) and South Asian Modernists, 1953- 63 (Whitworth Gallery) and Ppo South Asia (Sharjah Art Foundation), and she is the author of 101: A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists, 2005. Amrita is a Trustee of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. She sits on the Advisory Boards of Art South Asia Project (London), The Museum of Art & Photography (Bengaluru, India), Drawing Room (London, UK) and Khoj Artists Association (New Delhi).
‣ Charlotte Burns is the founder of Studio Burns, which creates and commissions original editorial and provides strategic advice. She is also the co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, which analyses equity in museums and the art market, and recently produced the weekly podcast “The Art World: What If…?!” for Art&.
Previously the executive editor of In Other Words, a weekly newsletter and podcast (2016-20), she was the US news and Market editor for The Art Newspaper (2009-16) and has written for publications including The Guardian, Cultured and Monocle. Before that she worked for galleries including Anthony d’Offay and Hauser & Wirth.
The Art Basel 2023 Conversations program is curated by Emily Butler. Coordination and support: Arianna Guidi.
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