Online gallery Artspace bought online VIP Art Fair Fair
Online platform for the sale of art acquired Artspace site VIP Art (former VIP Art Fair). Enlarged resource will be working from about 200 galleries, and the number of its customers to reach 200 thousand people
Artspace founders Chris Vroom and Catherine Leuven
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art dealers on the internet together. Online platform for the sale of art acquired Artspace site VIP Art, formerly known as the VIP Art Fair. At Artspace before this merger, things went well: in this site were implementing their works over a hundred galleries and non-profit organizations. VIP Art exhibitors have been about the same, and if collaborated with VIP Art Gallery agree to come under the wing Artspace, enlarged resource will provide more than 200 galleries. A combined customer base of Artspace and VIP Art is about 200,000 collectors.
Website VIP Art Fair was born in early 2011 as first opened the world's first Internet Art Fair . The founder of the project, the dealer James Cohen (James Cohan), for a fair catch in the first exponent of many famous gallery owners (eg, David Tsvirnera). However, because of the big technical problems first online fair almost failed . The following year, the event was also a success are small. As a result of the name of the site took the word Fair, VIP Art and began selling art on a regular basis, not just one week a year.
As for the site Artspace, launched by Chris Vroom and Catherine Leuven in the same 2011, the area was considered one of the greatest before purchase VIP Art. Artspace recently announced earned $ 8.5 million, as well as the appointment of our compatriot Maria Baibakova Director of Strategic Development. After the merger with VIP Art, according to Catherine of Leuven, the resource will be double or even three times as much of any of its competitors. A lot of competitors at Artspace. The most famous - Art.sy , Paddle8 , 20x200 , Artsicle , Exhibition A (on online sites that sell art, you can read the here and here ).
Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI
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