The collector’s role: patronage, gender balance, and institutional futures

A double conversation focused on the synergies between private collecting and contemporary art institutions. Key topics include patronage practices and gender equity within the art system.

Artissima presents a series of talks exploring the dynamics of private and institutional collecting, art patronage, and gender balance within the contemporary art world. This exploration opens with an exchange between Valeria Napoleone—collector, patron, and founder of Valeria Napoleone XX—and Pedro Barbosa, collector and founder of the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa in São Paulo.

MODERATED BY: Daniel Baumann (Art historian, curator and critic, Porto)

PART 1: con Valeria Napoleone (Collector and patron) in conversazione con Pedro Barbosa (Collector, Coleção Moraes-Barbosa, Sao Paulo CMB)

PART 2: con Vita Liberte (Collector and founder, VV Foundation, Riga) in conversazione con Beatrix Ruf (Curator and art advisor, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam)

Language: English