Social media has seemingly played an increasingly large role for the art market. Is it just a matter of hype?

Social media has an enormous amount of influence on the art market, specifically, the contemporary art market. Here we have a platform for the exchanging of ideas and images between artists, curators and collectors; we have access to photos of private collections, the whereabouts of famous collectors, the gallery openings...the action is endless.

What is your opinion on the art fair boom that has taken hold in recent years?

That is one of the disasters of our times, the boom is only creating 9 to 5 jobs for a group of people, LOL. I Don’t even think it’s a good business model for fair owners… it’s almost to a point becoming a laughing matter. I am being very clear about this; as long as there is a zero-countability in a part of an industry, the ramifications become disastrous. At this stage this is the approach of the majority of art fairs.

How and when did you first become involved in the art world?

While still at university I started to work for a bluechip dealer in Munich who provided me the first insight into the art world - with no doubt he had a very special approach on what he did. If you really want to dig back, my grandfather was publishing guides about local churches and religious art, so I remember canvases of various saints hanging everywhere.