International seminar, The Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, Oslo, 13 October 2016
Contributors: Dr Margaret Wasz I Dr Knut Ljøgodt I Yuka Oyama I Trude Schjelderup Iversen I Eivind Furnesvik I Nanna Melland I Petter Snare
Moderator: Liesbeth den Besten
The Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, Oslo
13 October 2016
10 am – 3 pm
ON COLLECTING: In a Private, Public and Personal Perspective will discuss private and public collecting, including the personal and psychological aspects of collecting art.
The seminar was a collaboration between KORO (Public Art Norway) and Norwegian Crafts and took place on the 13th of October at The Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture, Oslo, Norway.
Art collectors and collections make up an important part of the contemporary arts and crafts infrastructure. To collect is a selection process which has economic, social, political, psychological and art-historical implications and ramifications, not only for artists whose works are collected, but for the general field of art and the wider public.
While private collectors choose art according to taste, and support the artists they find most interesting from a personal perspective, museums and organisations collecting for the public are obliged to collect works that represent significant cultural and historical tendencies and discourses. Public museums also collect on behalf of future generations, without necessarily thinking about art as an investment in the financial sense.
In the seminar we wanted to look closer at the following issues:
– How does the dynamics between artists, galleries, art fairs, and private and public collectors influence the field of art and the art market?
– What financial, political and cultural structures are responsible for how works of art become “collectible” and thus available to the public in museums and public spaces?
Schedule
10.00: Welcome: Hege Henriksen, Liesbeth den Besten (moderator):
Introduction
10.05: Dr Margaret Wasz: Why do we collect
10.25: Liesbeth den Besten: lecture
10.55: Coffee
11.05: Dr. Knut Ljøgodt: Strategies for Collecting
12.00: Lunch
12.45: Eivind Furnesvik: How to build art collections if you are
reluctant to sell art?
13.15: Yuka Oyama: Collectors
13.45: Trude Schjelderup Iversen (KORO): The Becoming of a Public
Collection
14.30: Coffee
14.45: Panel discussion: Models and motivations for collecting with
Nanna Melland (leader of the Norwegian Craft Acquisition Fund) / Dr
Margaret Wasz (Consultant Existential Analyst) / Petter Snare (Private
Collector) / Liesbeth den Besten (Moderator)
15.30: The end