TEFAF Art Market, l’edizione 2020 mette al centro mecenatismo e filantropia. L’analisi in un Report

L’edizione di quest’anno, in calendario a Maastricht dal  7 al 15 marzo prossimi, sarà accompagnata dal Report ‘Art Patronage in the 21st Century’, stilato da Anders Petterson, Founder di  ArtTactic. Qui la presentazione e una anticipazione dei dati:

The report will explore developments and driving factors for the well-developed and long- established sector of private art patronage in Europe and North America – in 2018, philanthropic giving in the U.S amounted to $428 billion, of which an estimated $292 billion was donated by individuals and $19.5 billion went to arts and culture endeavours. Similarly, The Arts Council in the UK has found that 91% of arts and culture organisations received some form of private investment in the 2017/2018 financial year. This level of private support for the arts comes on the back of an increasingly challenging funding situation for the arts and culture sector.

Alongside this well developed sector in the US and Europe, art markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America see new eco-systems emerging around art patronage. The report will explore the different models developing, from public-private partnerships and private foundations, to corporate patronage and artist-led initiatives. Initiatives such as the Arab Fund for Art and Culture (AFAC), the recently launched African Culture Fund (AFC), and The Guest Artists Space Foundation (G.A.S) set up by Yinka Shonibare will be explored through interviews and case-studies in the report. Alongside this, the report will explore how private patronage is providing fundamental support for many important public art events, such as the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, as well as the development of private art museums, such as the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA).

Additional areas within the report are next generation (millenials and GenZ) behaviours and motivations, technology, and ethics, and how each of these impacts and guides the development of art patronage.