Wealth - Art Market - Cultural Strategies

The workshop sessions and keynote lecture are open to researchers and the general public. Please register by email (matthieu.leimgruber@uzh.ch) for attending the sessions. No advance registration is required to attend the keynote lecture.

Programme
WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL UZH, KOL G-317, KARL SCHMID STRASSE 4

13:30 Welcome and introductory remarks- Matthieu Leimgruber (UZH)

13:45 The European art markets during World War II - Kim Oosterlinck (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

14:30 New research on the Swiss art market: the Galerie Aktuaryus in Zurich - Elisabeth Eggimann Gerber (Zürich)

15:15 Coffee break

15:45 The Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft: financial elites and the Swiss art market - Stéphanie Ginalski & Emilie Wiedmer (UNIL, Lausanne)

16:30 Art, patronage and political lobbying: the Emil Bührle case - Matthieu Leimgruber (UZH)

KEYNOTE UZH, KOL G-317, Karl Schmid Strasse 4

18:00 L’économie de l’enrichissement et la forme «collection»
Arnaud Esquerre & Luc Boltanski (EHESS, Paris)

THURSDAY 28 APRIL UZH, HAH-F-1, HÄLDELIWEG 2

9:00 The art of doing wealth: the Thyssen case - Simone Derix (Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg)

9:45 Art is capital: social uses and interests of art collecting - Franz Schultheis (Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen)

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Round up

12:00 End of the workshop