Main emphasis: Art Market Studies
Since the winter semester 2012/13, the currently emergent field of research into the art market has enjoyed a high standing in both research and teaching at the Department of Art History through the specialisation module Art Market within the single-field Master’s Programme in Art History. In the context of this field of research, its various areas are focalised: This includes dealing with the protagonists in both the primary and secondary markets. In particular, the relationships between vendors, buyers and competitors among themselves (that is to say, the market conditions), as well as their effect on the assertion and canonisation of the visual arts – for example the value configurations of the visual arts, both in their historical development and in their current form – are intensively researched. Since the summer semester 2015, Dr. Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, Junior Professor of Art History and the Art Market at the Department of Art History, addresses the topic from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective by pursuing issues located on the border between Art History, Sociology, Digital Humanities, Geography and Business Administration (especially Marketing).