Adelaide Duarte (IHA, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
Art historian, researcher, and assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is the Executive Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program “Art Market and Collecting” at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, since its first edition in 2016, and also the coordinator of TIAMSA subcommittee Art Market and Collecting in the European Southern Countries and Brazil. Member of the research group “Museum Studies: Art, Museums, and Collections”. She is vice-president of the Friends Association of the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado in Lisbon. She received her Ph.D. in Museology and Cultural Heritage (2012) at the University of Coimbra, analyzing private collections of modern and contemporary art in Portugal. Master's degree in Museology and Cultural Heritage (2005), and a degree in Art History (1998) at the same University. She currently supervises Ph.D. and master’s students on topics relevant to the history of contemporary art collections, art museums, and galleries. Her research interests cover topics such as private collecting practices, contemporary collectors, art fairs and biennials, the primary art market (contemporary art galleries), and ideas around the periphery and the global south. Concerning this subject, she co-organized the international conference on The Art Market and the Global South: New Perspectives and Plural Approaches (Lisbon, 2019). She has participated in several conferences, in Portugal and abroad, and published articles and books. |
Ana Letícia Fialho (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil)
PhD in Arts and Language Sciences (2006) from the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences of Paris (EHESS), with research on the internationalization of contemporary Brazilian art. Master in Cultural Management (2000) by the University of Lyon II, with research on the relations between Brazil and France in the field of visual arts. Graduated in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1997). Visiting Professor at UNIFESP (Universidade Federal de São Paulo). Formerly Director of Productive Strategy at the Office of Cultural Economy/Brazilian Ministry of Culture (2016-2018); executive manager at Cinema do Brazil (2007-2010 and 2015-2016); Head Researcher and Commerce Intelligence Consultant at Latitude - Platform for Brazilian Art Galleries Abroad (APEX-Brasil) (2011-2014); executive curator at Forum Permanente, a network based project which functions as a multi-platform for critical discussion on contemporary art (2007-2011); researcher and editor assistant for the exhibition and the book Drifs and Derivations – experiences, journeys and morphologies, organized by Lisette Lagnado for the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid (2010). |
Belén Mazuecos (University of Granada)
Artist and Full Professor of the Department of Painting at the University of Granada-UGR (Spain). She has been Vice-dean of Cultural Affairs at the Faculty of Fine Arts (2008-2015) and Director of the Visual Arts Area of the Vice-rectorate of University Extension of the UGR (2015-2019). PhD in Fine Arts with European Mention by the University of Granada (2008), Bachelor of Fine Arts by the UGR (Spain) and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera of Milan (Italy) (2001) and in Social and Cultural Anthropology by the UGR (Spain) (2011), she has completed her training in other foreign centres, such as the University of Costa Rica (2002), the Bocconi University of Milan (Italy) (2004) or the International Center for Art Economics of Venice (Italy) (2005-2009). In the last years she has directed 3 national and international R&D projects on the system and market of contemporary and emerging art and has participated in other 5 projects on cultural transfers between arts, crafts and design, and heritage communication through contemporary art. He is currently part of the research team of the European project WARMEST [Horizonte 2020] (2017-2021) on preventive conservation of immovable heritage and RRRMAKER [Horizonte 2020] (2021-2024) on arts, crafts and design in the frame of circular economy. Her main research topics and the subjects she lectures on are “Contemporary Artistic Projects” and “Contemporary Art Market”. She has participated in several international conferences and has published in prestigious international journals. She has won several prestigious international artistic awards such as the Arte Laguna Prize 14 ed., Venice (Italy), 2020. |
Bruna W. Fetter (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil)
Professor and researcher at the Art Institute of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), Bruna Fetter holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism. Vice-coordinator of the Post Graduate Program in Curatorial Practices at the same university, she was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at New York University (2014/2015) as part of her PhD research on art fairs and their processes in legitimating Brazilian contemporary art internationally. Mrs. Fetter is a member of AICA and TIAMSA, where she is part of the "The Art Market and Collecting: Portugal, Spain and Brazil” subcommittee. |
Fernando Loureiro Bastos (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Associate Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. President of the Institute for Juridical Cooperation, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. Head of Research Group (HRG) on International and European Law of the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law, University of Law (the Centro de Investigação de Direito Público (CIDP) or Centre for Research in Public Law is ranked ‘Excellent’ for the period of 2020-2023 by the FCT – Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia – Portuguese scientific research foundation). Senior researcher of the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Law. Director of Studies of the SPDI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Direito Internacional (Portuguese Branch of the International Law Association). Member of the editorial committee of the Enciclopédia Luso-Brasileira de Direito Internacional (Portuguese-Brazilian Encyclopedia of International Law). Member of the International Law Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise; and Member of the International Law Association on Global Cultural Heritage Governance. Member of TIAMSA Legal (The International Art Market Studies Association). Associate of ILHADI – Instituto Luso-Hispano-Americano de Direito International (elected June 2018 – Seville session). |
Marcílio Franca (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil)
Marcílio Franca is a pioneer name in the field of Art Law in Latin America, with many scholarly books, articles, conferences and press interventions on diverse aspects of the art market. Currently, he is Professor of Law at the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil) and Chief-Prosecutor of the Task Force on Cultural Heritage at the Audit Court of Paraíba (Brazil). Since 2016 he is serving as Alternate Arbitrator at the Permanent Review Tribunal of MERCOSUR (Asunción, Paraguay). In October 2019, he was appointed Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Art, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Between 2018 and 2020, Marcílio Franca was Visiting Professor of Art Law at the Law Department of the Turin University (Italy) and Research Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin, Italy). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Law (University of Coimbra, Portugal, FCT Fellowship) with a post-doc in Law at the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship). Currently, he is Member of the Executive Council of the International Law Association (ILA, London, UK), of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention Academic Project (UNIDROIT, Rome), of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), of the International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA Legal Committee) and of the Instituto Hispano-Luso-Americano de Derecho Internacional (IHLADI). Marcilio is former student (Gasthörer) at the Free University of Berlin (Germany), visiting trainee at the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg), Senior Legal Advisor of the UN Mission in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) and the World Bank (PFMCBP/Timor). He was President of the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA Brazil) and today is leader of LABIRINT - International Laboratory of Investigations into Transjuridicity (UFPB). He has lectured at many foreign institutions in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, France, Italy, Poland, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Argentina, Canada, Paraguay, United States, South Africa, East Timor and Germany. A complete list of publications and conferences can be consulted at: http://lattes.cnpq.br/994414858057934 |
Marta Ibañez Perez (President of IAC, Madrid, Spain)
PhD in History and Arts from the University of Granada, Spain. Master’s Degree in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain. Specialized in contemporary art market, with thirty years’ experience in management, research and graduate teaching. Currently lectures on Contemporary Art, Art Market Management and History, Cultural Management and Marketing in several universities and institutions, in and out of Spain. She is President of the Institute of Contemporary Art of Spain IAC, and member of The International Art Market Studies Association TIAMSA. Member of the research clusters Art market and collecting in the European Southern countries and Brazil (AMC_ESCB), 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. Since 2015, is Section Editor specialized in both Spanish and Portuguese art markets at De Gruyter Publishing, Berlin (Germany) working on the future publication of the Art Market Dictionary. Is co-author of the research study La Actividad Económica de los/las Artistas en España, first in-depth survey about the situation of artists and the evolution of the art market during the economic recession in Spain. Its results have contributed to the writing of the new Statute of the Artist by the Spanish Congress of Deputies in 2018. Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Profesor Doctor Contratado from The National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain, ANECA (full member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education ENQA, full member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education INQAAHE, listed in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education EQAR). |
Nei Vargas (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil).
Professor of the Postgraduate program in Art and Market at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes, São Paulo, Brazil. Nei Vargas da Rosa is a PhD candidate of Visual Arts, emphasis in History, Theory and Criticism of Art at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Master’s degree in the same University, part of his dissertation was awarded at the Public Notice Brazil Contemporary Art: Economy of Art, by Bienal of São Paulo Foundation. He is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Art beyond Art - International Symposium on Art Systemic Relations. He's also the coordinator of the research project Perspectives of Contemporary Art Collecting in Brazil, sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Culture of São Paulo. |
Ricardo Emanuel-Correia (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Ricardo has been working in projects regarding microcredit, crowdfunding, corporate finance, behavioral finance, experimental economics, sustainability, and art markets. He recently won the EMN European Microfinance Research AWARD 2020. He also won a Google Developer Challenge Scholarship. Ricardo is a former Coordinator of JOPA (Núcleo de Jovens Profissionais de Águas, Group of Young Water Professionals), he is one of the contributors of the first Iberian Platform of Young Water Professionals. He holds a PhD in Economics and a Master degree in Finance from ISCTE-IUL and received a merit scholarship for best student of that program in the academic year 2008/2009 and an FCT scholarship to his PhD Project. In 2019/2020 graduates in a Postgraduate degree in Art Market at FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Previously, he spent almost three years working at KPMG Corporate Finance Portugal, in the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) department. His main personal interests are creative writing, dancing, travelling, reading, collecting and volunteering regarding food waste and sustainability. |
Maria Amélia Bulhões (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil)
Professor Maria Amélia Bulhões holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo - USP (1990). She was a Senior Fellow at the Universities of Paris I, Sorbonne (1995/97) and Polytechnic University of Valencia (2005/07). She is head Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), researcher 1A (top level or productivity) of CNPq and leader of a registered Research Group within this same entity. She is the current president of the Brazilian Association of Art Critics, ABCA, and member of the Board of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA. She was president of the National Association of Plastic Arts Research, ANPAP (1993/95), coordinator of the Graduate Program in Visual Arts at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1991/95) and Director of the Cultural Center Brazil-Venezuela (2003). Her last books were: Contemporary Art in Brazil (2019) The new rules of the game: the art system in Brazil (2014) and Web art and poetics of the territory (2011). |