Category: Japan
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Art Collaboration Kyoto: Between Globalisation and Glocalisation (Extract)
In recent years, debates surrounding the future of art fairs have shifted beyond questions of scale and expansion. As art fairs have become a central infrastructure of the contemporary art world, post-pandemic constraints on mobility and growing concerns over sustainability have prompted renewed scrutiny of how these global models operate across both established and emerging…
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How compatible is the Western mega-gallery model with Japan’s contemporary art ecosystem? (Extract)
Mega-galleries have become the dominant infrastructure of the global art market, reshaping how artists, collectors, and institutions operate. With branches across continents, ever-expanding artist rosters, and financial power few can rival, mega-galleries function through an almost hegemonic model, and their presence in a city often defines a “successful” contemporary art ecosystem, one driven by wealth,…
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Reviewed Work: Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan (Extract)
Wasano and Onishi’s study represents the first large-scale empirical attempt to classify contemporary art collectors in Japan according to their motivations and psychographic traits. Using a mixed-methods approach, Wasano and Onishi build on an existing Western model of art purchase motivations that they adapt to the Japanese art market. Their analysis of 386 collectors identifies…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 