Art Collecting Conferences
The UCM Art Collecting Conferences – Art History, directed by the Doctors in Art History from UCM: Ms. María del Carmen de la Guerra Martín, for her Doctoral Thesis: Typology of Private Contemporary Art Collecting in Spain 1977-2017: “Collector Profiles”; and Mr. Manuel Haro Ramos, for his Doctoral Thesis: «The Spanish financial system and its connection to art (patronage, sponsorship, collections, and exhibitions) through foundations and social works (2007 – 2016)», and carried out by the Complutense University of Madrid, through the Department of Art History, are a series of events that aim to foster a deeper understanding of art collecting in the academic field and promote the important work of preserving Artistic Heritage.
Therefore, the following have been held:
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- I UCM Art Collecting Conferences – Art History. “40 Years of ARCO with Art Collecting”.
Madrid, November 22 to 25, 2021.
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- II UCM Art Collecting Conferences – Art History. “The Public Function of Private Collecting”.
Madrid, November 21 to 26, 2022.
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- III UCM Art Collecting Conferences – Art History. “From Private Collections to Museums: Legacies, Donations, and Deposits”.
Madrid, November 7 to 17, 2023.
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- IV UCM Art Collecting Conferences – Art History. “The State of the Art of Spanish Art Collecting”
Madrid, November 4 to 23, 2024.
The main objective is to promote the integration of the world of art collecting into the university environment, to generate a source of knowledge and encourage the activity of collecting.
The participation of collectors in these Art Collecting Conferences is one way to promote and publicize patronage within the university sphere. Likewise, with the participation of university professors, artists, gallerists, collectors, and various agents of the Art Market, along with visits to Collections, Museums, and Art Centers, it is a way to qualitatively and pragmatically generate and promote art collecting among future collectors.
With the purpose of making art collecting a subject of study and interest at the University, bringing this reality closer to teachers and students, to help them coexist and participate in a reality without whose intervention Art would lose momentum.
The Conferences combine presentations offered by the owners and managers of the country’s most important public and private collections, with university professors and various specialists, so that we can analyze and highlight the Collector as a central axis for fostering the creative process.
We want to highlight the role played by private collectors who safeguard artistic heritage, generating a common good by sharing it with the public, emphasizing the links and relationships generated between the public and private sectors in favor of preserving and making heritage visible.
