Issue 58 / March 2024
eds. Ronald Kolb, Shwetal A. Patel, Dorothee Richter

Speculations: Funding and Financing Non-Profit Art

This issue of OnCurating aims to shed light on the complex and often-times concealed economic basis of art production and exhibition-making. The contributions cover a range of issues from a highly speculative financial model of the art market, public funding mechanisms, and attempts of building alternative economic systems.
The compilation of texts are to be read in the context of two key problems related to arts funding: The art market’s speculative value production and the state-based public funding paradigms and the reproduction of unequal relations.