Prior positions: Lecturer in Cultural Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam (ESHCC); B.A.E.F. Fellow at Duke University (Belgian American Educational Foundation - DALMI); Asp. F.R.S.-FNRS (Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique);
Contact Information: Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Cultural Management
Department of History, Arts and Archaeology
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences
Office - Avenue Jeanne 56, J56.2.101 (CP103)
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Ph. +32 (0)2 650 43 57
Emails: Anne-Sophie.Radermecker@ulb.ac.be / as.radermecker@gmail.com
Ph.D. thesis: The Market Value of the Artist Name: An Empirical Study on the Market for Flemish Masters (1946-2015) - defended on 4 April, 2019 (Université libre de Bruxelles).
Supervisors: Profs. Kim OOSTERLINCK (ULB, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) - Didier MARTENS (ULB, Department of History, Arts and Archaeology)
Jury: Prof. Victor GINSBURGH (ULB, ECARES), Dr Valentine HENDERIKS (ULB), Prof. Filip VERMEYLEN (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Prof. Sophie RAUX (Lyon II)
Master's Degrees: Art History and Archaeology (2007-2010/2012-2014, Université de Liege); Cultural Management (2010-2012, Université libre de Bruxelles)
Other: Sotheby's Institute of Art - Summer School (Certificate acknowledged by the University of Manchester)
Books
A.-S. Radermecker, Anonymous Art at Auction. The Reception of Early Flemish Paintings in the Western Art Market, Leiden/Boston: Brill (coll. Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Market) (https://brill.com/view/title/59100)
Reports
A.-S. Radermecker, La valeur marchande du nom d’artiste : une étude empirique sur le marché des tableaux flamands (1946-2015) avec implications pour le secteur muséal, Dossier de l’Observatoire des Politiques culturelles de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Forthcoming, 110 p.)
A.-S. Radermecker et S. Du Roy de Blicquy, Le marché de l’art, Dossier du CRISP, n° 89, 2018, 153 p. ISBN 978 2 87075 187 9 https://www.cairn.info/revue-dossiers-du-crisp-2018-1-page-13.htm?contenu=resume
Work in progress
"Should Emerging Artists Build a Brand Name? For a Reassessment of Marketing Theories on the Artist’s Name as a Brand” (with D. Charitos)
Contemporary Artist, Crafts Maker and/or Cultural Entrepreneur? How Identity and Self-Perception affect Business Models in the Creative Crafts Market (with E. Loots)
"Changing Taste. Prices for den Oude and den Helsche Brueghel during the long Eighteenth Century"
Submitted Papers
"On the Role of Tactile Value in Cultural Consumption: An Empirical Research in the Live Music Industry" (with F. Angelini)"
“Branding Strategies in the Art Market. Are Spatio-temporal Designations more Profitable than Indirect Names?” (with F. Angelini and M. Marchenko)
" Bringing back Meanings to Words: Exploring the Effects of Transcriptions on the Perceived Value of Chinese Calligraphy" (with Yuqing Song)
A.-S. Radermecker, "Everything But Not the Artist's Name. The Overlooked Economics of Indeterminate Works of Art")
Papers published in peer-reviewed journals
A.-S. Radermecker, and H. J. Van Miegroet, “Attribution, Authentication, and Valuation Strategies in Eighteenth-century Paris Auction Markets” European Review of Economic History.
A.-S. Radermecker (2022). Selling Low-brow Art and Cultural Goods in Times of Pandemic: The Case of a Provincial Art Market. International Journal of Cultural Property (forth).
A.-S. Radermecker, and V. Ginsburgh, “Questioning the NFTs’ ‘Revolution’ Within the Art Ecosystem” Arts (forth.)
K. Oosterlinck, and A.-S. Radermecker, “Reputation or Regulation? Evidence from the Art Market.” Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society (forth.)
A.-S. Radermecker and F. Alvarez de Toledo (2022). “Methods in Art Markets Studies: Considerations for a Hybrid Field between Art History and Cultural Economics” International Journal of Digital Art History.
A.-S. Radermecker (2021) Art and Culture in Covid-19 era. For A Consumer-Oriented Approach," SN Business & Economics 1.1.
A.-S. Radermecker, "Buy one painting, get two names. On the valuation of artist collaborations in the art market", Arts and the Market, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 99-121
A.-S. Radermecker, "The market reception of ‘new connoisseurship’: The impact of recent advances in art scholarship on the selling and buying of early Flemish paintings," Nederlands Kunsthistorische Jaarboek. Art and the Knowledge of Connoisseurship/Kennerschap en Kunst, vol. 69, 2020, pp. 339-372.
A.-S. Radermecker, "When the Artist’s Name is Missing: Exploring the Auction Market for “Anonymous” Flemish Paintings ," Journal of Cultural Economics, vol. 43, n° 3, 2019, pp. 443-483.
K. Oosterlinck and A.-S. Radermecker, "‘The Master of…’ Creating Names for Art History and the Art Market", Journal of Cultural Economics, vol. 43(1), 2019, pp. 57-95. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10824-018-9329-1
A.-S. Radermecker, "Quand un nom vaut des millions. État et limite d’un marché fondé sur une économie du nom d’artiste," Marges, n° 28, 2019, pp. 44-62.
V. Ginsburgh, A.-S. Radermecker and D. Tommasi, "The Implicit Value of Art Experts: The Case of Klaus Ertz and Pieter Brueghel the Younger," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 159, 2019, pp. 36-50. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268118302440?via=ihub
A.-S. Radermecker, "Marcantonio Michiel à propos d’une coupe all’antica de Pietro Maria Serbaldi: un prototype du faux archéologique à la fin du Quattrocento ?," Correspondances (Presses Universitaires de Paris-Ouest) (forthcoming : 2020)
A.-S. Radermecker, "De l’usage maladroit de la signature d’artiste dans les études économiques," Koregos. Revue encyclopédique et multimédia des arts, n° 226, avril 2018. En ligne : http://www.koregos.org/fr/anne-sophie-radermecker-signature-marche-art/
A.-S. Radermecker, "Isabella d’Este et la sculpture all’antica : deux témoignages sur l’essor du connoisseurship en Italie au tournant des XVe et XVIe siècle," Annales d’Histoire de l’Art & d’Archéologie, 2015, n° XXXVII, pp. 87-102.
A.-S. Radermecker, "Abraham de Bruyn : Cinq chevaux debout dans un passage", in Animaux, exhib. cat., (Collections artistiques de l’Université de Liège, Galerie Wittert, 10ème Biennale de Gravure contemporaine de Liège), Liège, 2015, pp. 15 – 17.
A.-S. Radermecker et C. Levaux, (ed.), "Artistes, musiques et publics en Wallonie et à Bruxelles (1990-2010) », Revue de la Société liégeoise de Musicologie, n° 31-33 (2012-2014), 99 p. (Paper: « Affirmation et économie d’une scène locale : le cas des groupes pop-rock issus de la Communauté française de Belgique entre 2000 et 2010 », pp. 35-57.)
Chapters of books
A.-S. Radermecker, "Collectionner les tableaux anciens." In Collectionneurs et marché, Bruxelles, Bibliotheca Wittockiana).
A.-S. Radermecker, "New Connoisseurship Facing the Art market. The Reception of Pieter Brueghel the Younger at Auction," In A. Glauser, P. Holder, T. Mazzurana, O. Moeschler, V. Rolle, F. Schultheis (ed.), The Sociology of Arts and Markets. New Developments and Persistent Patterns (2020). Palgrave Macmillan, 432 p.
A.-S. Radermecker and É. Garcia Guillen, "Le dialogue entre les opérateurs du secteur des arts plastiques contemporains à Bruxelles : perceptions et perspectives d’un territoire créatif," In F. Rinchsbergh, E. Swyngedouw, J. Vlegels (eds)., Cultural & Creative Industries in Brussels, VUB-Press, Urban Notebooks series, 2018, pp. 239-260. ISBN 978 90 5718 802
Other publications
A.-S. Radermecker, and N. Nyst, “L’emploi culturel,” Politique – Revue belge d’analyse et de débat (forth. Fall 2021)
A.-S. Radermecker, “How the Pandemic Shed Light on the “Tactile Value” of Art and Culture”, SHIT! Corona Chronicles. An online Space/Repository/Forum to share problems, solutions, issues, field notes and questions about how professional arts and culture works in a Covid-19/PostCovid-19 world (Posted on 15 February 2021).
Forthcoming: contributions to the Art Market Dictionary De Gruyter (various dictionary entries)
September 2018, EconomistsTalkArt.org, « The price of a name: Art market valuation of provisional names (‘The master of’), Available online: https://economiststalkart.org/2018/10/09/the-price-of-a-name-art-market-valuation-of-provisional-names-the-master-of/
January 2017, Moustique (national weekly magazine): 21 Rue la Boétie exhibition’s review Available online: http://www.moustique.be/17421/le-documentaire-21-rue-la-boetie
A.-S. Radermecker, Conference Review: Art & Market: Alienation or Emancipation? International congress organized by the Research Committee Sociology of Arts and Culture (RC‐SAC) of the Swiss Sociological Association and the Institute of Sociology of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), peer-reviewed review published on the official website of TIAMSA (The International Art Market Studies), https://www.artmarketstudies.org/conference-review-art-market-alienation-or-emancipation/
A.-S. Radermecker, « Réflexion sur la notion d’authenticité à la Renaissance. La genèse du faux artistique en Italie aux Quattrocento et Cinquecento : la version des sources écrites modernes et le point de vue vasarien », Art&Fact 2015 (University of Liège), [open access online], http://www.artfact.ulg.ac.be/memoires/2013-2014.RADERMECKER.pdf
September 21st, 2022. ICCPR – International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (Antwerp University)
September 9th, 2022. EWACE – 12th European Workshop of Applied Cultural Economics (University of Torino) – with F. Angelini.
June 27th, 2022. AIMAC (Association Internationale de Management des Arts et de la Culture) annual conference (Mexico City - online).
June 10th, 2022: Tools for the Future. Researching Art Markets Practices Past and Present (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – with E. Loots.
March 31st, 2022: Renaissance Society of America (RSA Annual Conference) – Session Collecting and Display - The Collector in the Marketplace (Dublin).
Association for Cultural Economics International 2021 Conference – paper presented with F. Angelini and M. Marchenko + special art market session co-chaired with Profs. M. Vecco and A. Srakar (8 July 2021).
June 11th, 2021: Workshop 6 – Financial Structures and Practices on the Art Market Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & IESA Arts & Culture, Paris, 11-12 June 2021
April 14th, 2021: Annual conference of the Association for Art History (University of Birmingham, online, 14-16 April 2021). Session: The Real Price: Between art and the (art) market
Thursday 13th, 2020: College Art Association, 108th Annual Conference (Chicago) - TIAMSA Workshop (Selling and Buying Anonymity) - Chair of the panel.
September 6th, 2019: Ninth European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics (Copenhagen Business School)
June 24th, 2019: Thematic school: Art markets. An Integrated Perspective (Lyon, Université Lumière II)
April 27th, 2019: Deuxième journée de l’Art flamand, liégeois et belge de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels ULB).
November 16th, 2018: International Art Market Workshop (Brussels, ULB-F.R.S-FNRS / Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay).
September 28th, 2018: TIAMSA International Conference (The International Art Market Studies Association -Vienna, Belvedere).
June 26th, 2018: Young Researcher Workshop – ACEI18 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics, RMIT University, Melbourne Victoria (Australia).
February 24th, 2018: International symposium (Marges. Revue d’art contemporain), “Art with (or without” the art market”, Institut National d’Histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris.
September 9th, 2017: Eight European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics, 07-09 September, Cracow University of Economics (Cracow, Poland).
April 6th, 2017: International Congress: Investigating Cultural Expertise (Groupe d'Études sur la Prescription; laboratoires CIMEOS et GERIICO (Lille 3), University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Dijon)
December 8th, 2016: Workshop: Understanding Culture and Creativity in Brussels (ULB, VUB, Saint Louis Brussels).
November 17th-18th, 2016: International Congress organised by the Research Committe Sociology of Arts and Culture of the Swiss Sociological Association and the Institute of Sociology of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
May 27th, 2016: Doctoral Meeting organized by the AJCH (Association des Jeunes Chercheurs en Histoire), Faux, Forgeries, Contrefaçons.
April 29th, 2016: Research Support Award offered by the Observatory of Cultural Policies of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels.
January 26th, 2016: 3rd Doctoral Meeting organized by Transitions, University of Liège, Documents, Methods and Concepts.
September 13th, 2013: representing Transitions (Interdisciplinary Research Department on the Late Middle Age and the Early Modernity, Liège University) for the visit of the exhibition « L’Europe de Rubens » (Louvre-Lens Museum) with H. M. Mathilde, Queen of Belgium, organized by the Rubenianum Institute (Antwerp) and surpervised by Prof. Arnout Balis.
April 17th, 2013: Lecture session for La Société liégeoise de Musicologie (University of Liège): « Musiques actuelles : l’émergence de la scène pop-rock en Wallonie et à Bruxelles. Essai d'une évaluation qualitative et quantitative des politiques culturelles mises en œuvre par la Communauté française entre 2000 et 2010 »
9 December 2022. Cyprus Culture Summit Music 2022. Panelist for Session 5. Digital Shift in the Music Industry.
19 October 2022. ENCATC Congress 2022 – Chair of the study visit at the Holland House (Brussels) – Artists and Transnational Cooperation. Sustainable Practices and Policy.
May 13th, 2022: Conference at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana (Collectionneurs et marché)
May 3rd, 2022: Séminaire IMAGO (Université de Lille)
April 28th, 2022: ISELP (Bruxelles), Journée d’étude Profession Historien.ne de l’art
April 25th, 2022: Oslo Creative IPR seminar (University of Oslo) – with K. Oosterlinck
April 14th, 2022: Tiamsa Live Book Discussion (online)
December 21st, 2021: Hedonic regression for art historians (KULeuven, with K. Oosterlinck) –
Contribution to Prof. K. Brosens’s course on the history of art markets.
June 21st, 2021: Fakes in the art market (International Workshop part of the UNIBO Institute of Advanced Studies (ISA) – keynote speaker
May 11th, 2021: LEM Economics Seminar (Université de Lille)
June 2nd, 2020: Getty Research Institute Virtual Workshop : Art History and Big Data
March 18th, 2020: Seminar for History of Art Markets (Duke University)
October 9th, 2019: Seminar for History of Art Markets (Duke University)
June 18th, 2019: invitation as a panel speaker at the Lunchtime talk on Community, citizens and cultural heritage organized by The European Commission Blue Book Trainee Arts and Culture Subcommittee. Topic: “Sustainability and future of the European Year of Cultural Heritage”
February 6th, 2019: Seminar for GECUD-501(Actualité et questions approfondies relatives aux institutions culturelles) : « Les relations entre musées et marché de l’art » + « Réflexions sur la pratique de deacessioning »)
February 14th, 2018: Seminar for GECUD-501(Actualité et questions approfondies relatives aux institutions culturelles) : « Marché de l’art et pouvoirs publics : une application à la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles)
June 16th, 2017: Lecture session for CAVEAT!!!! At Lodger (Research project on the artist contract launched by Jubilee at MUKHA, Antwerp).
December 2022: Member of the Collegium (Royal Academy of Belgium)
March 2020 : Prix Suzanne Sulzberger (ULB – Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales)
February 2019: B.A.E.F. Fellowship (Belgian American Educational Foundation) – Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) 2019-2020
June 2018: President Prize for the Best Young Researcher Paper at the 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics (Melbourne, RMIT University)
April, 2016: Research Award offered by the Observatory of Cultural Policies of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels.
February 2012: Best Dissertation Award offered by the Observatory of Cultural Policies of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels. Summary available online
Journal of Cultural Economics (Springer)
SN Business & Economics (Springer Nature - editor board member)