DERIVAT is a collective platform that critically engages with the structures of the contemporary art market. Rather than accepting its established hierarchies and mechanisms of value, DERIVAT seeks to interrogate how these systems shape artistic production and access. The initiative fosters dialogue on alternative economic models that could enable greater artistic autonomy while reimagining how audiences participate in and relate to art beyond the confines of traditional market logics.
#1 - Art Sales (2022)
The first sale, organised in my Berlin studio with 18 participating artists, acted as a small-scale intervention into the logics of the art market. Works priced between 10 and 200 euros—ranging from sketches and editions to overlooked objects—were presented not as commodities of speculation but as accessible propositions, questioning how value is constructed and who gets to participate.
#2 - Roundtable (2023)
DERIVAT hosted a roundtable with artists, curators, and historians to reflect on accessibility and financial independence in the arts. The discussion foregrounded the structural precarity faced by cultural workers and emphasised the urgency of imagining collective alternatives to market-driven dependency.
#3 - DERIVAT Store! (2023-2025)
The DERIVAT Store extended these questions into an online format. By circulating affordable works and reactivating pieces long kept in storage, the platform sought to resist the mechanisms of speculative value while opening new modes of distribution and visibility.
#4 - Art Sales (2024)
The second sale, hosted at GR_UND in Wedding with 24 Berlin-based artists, further expanded this experiment. With works ranging from 10 to 400 euros, the event explored how redistribution and accessibility might reshape the relationship between artists, audiences, and the economies of circulation.
DERIVAT is a collective platform that critically engages with the structures of the contemporary art market. Rather than accepting its established hierarchies and mechanisms of value, DERIVAT seeks to interrogate how these systems shape artistic production and access. The initiative fosters dialogue on alternative economic models that could enable greater artistic autonomy while reimagining how audiences participate in and relate to art beyond the confines of traditional market logics.
#1 - Art Sales (2022)
The first sale, organised in my Berlin studio with 18 participating artists, acted as a small-scale intervention into the logics of the art market. Works priced between 10 and 200 euros—ranging from sketches and editions to overlooked objects—were presented not as commodities of speculation but as accessible propositions, questioning how value is constructed and who gets to participate.
#2 - Roundtable (2023)
DERIVAT hosted a roundtable with artists, curators, and historians to reflect on accessibility and financial independence in the arts. The discussion foregrounded the structural precarity faced by cultural workers and emphasised the urgency of imagining collective alternatives to market-driven dependency.
#3 - DERIVAT Store! (2023-2025)
The DERIVAT Store extended these questions into an online format. By circulating affordable works and reactivating pieces long kept in storage, the platform sought to resist the mechanisms of speculative value while opening new modes of distribution and visibility.
#4 - Art Sales (2024)
The second sale, hosted at GR_UND in Wedding with 24 Berlin-based artists, further expanded this experiment. With works ranging from 10 to 400 euros, the event explored how redistribution and accessibility might reshape the relationship between artists, audiences, and the economies of circulation.