The Art World 2025

Department of Art History presents

The Art World 2025: Blurred lines and new realities

How social media, geopolitics, creative industries and generational shifts are rapidly reshaping the art world’s markets and modus operandi.

Date: 23rd March 2025 (Sunday)
Time: 2pm-3:30pm
Venue: Grand Hall, Centennial Campus, HKU (click here for directions)
Registration: CLICK HERE– Registration is now closed, but we welcome walk-in participants
Free seating, with doors open at 1:30pm

Speaker: Marc Spiegler (Cultural Strategist)

Spiegler was the Global Director of Art Basel from 2012 to 2022, and helped bring Art Basel to Hong Kong in 2011. He now works independently with cultural organizations such as the LUMA Foundation and for companies such as Prada Group, KEF and Sanlorenzo. In the immersive space, he is President of Board of Superblue and chairman of the UBS Digital Art Museum’s advisory board. Spiegler has been a Visiting Professor in cultural management at Milan’s Universita Bocconi for a decade and recently cofounded the Art Market Minds Academy, a virtual education startup.