Opinion Columns

Thousands of artworks in office spaces, financial support for emerging artists, a showcase for new voices from diverse regions worldwide, and a staggering market valued at millions of pounds. These are some of the key aspects of international corporate collections. In the last decade, these collections have gained enough momentum to dominate the art world from different angles due to their increased interest in contemporary ideas as a means to regenerate collections and the e

In the last decade, interest in fractional ownership and its opportunities have escalated massively in the art world. For centuries, since the idea of art investment emerged, only wealthy or high-net-worth (HNWI) collectors could invest in art by buying it physically. This characteristic protected the secretive, elusive nature of the nineteenth-century Paris Salon  culture, which is similar to the culture of art investment that would come centuries later. But nowadays, thanks

For the last two decades, the Turkish art market has been an important topic amongst art circles, especially with its peak in the late 2000s. Spiral movement in the Turkish market is caused and impacted by the country’s politics, economics and cultural landscape. However, the conjunction of East and West has the potential to grow even further and attract international art world participants to its doorstep. But what is the current state of the Turkish art market today? As an

Disruptive NFTs and Side Effects of the NFT Craze It has been a tremendous year for me and for my colleagues at Sotheby's Institute of Art...

The 17th Istanbul Biennial is back in the heart of Turkey with an idiosyncratic approach. Curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar, and David Teh with no specific title or theme, it showcases 82 international artists and self-identifies as a compost of sorts, fermented by the exhibition’s artworks, panel discussions, and workshops to further encourage dialogues surrounding the Biennial’s past, present, and future. As emphasised in the curatorial statement, “Rather than being a