• Art dealers' top business priorities worldwide 2020

During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, some art fairs, exhibitions, and auctions took place online rather than in-person, as stay-at-home restrictions were implemented worldwide to reduce the rise in infections. According to a 2020 study, the interest of art dealers in the online market rose significantly in 2020 over the previous year, with 54 percent of respondents seeing online sales and exhibitions as a business priority. Only 17 percent of surveyed art dealers claimed the same in 2019. Moreover, 43 percent of the survey sample believed that online sales and exhibition will be a business priority in the next one to two years.

Main business priorities for art dealers worldwide in 2019, 2020, and a forecast for the two years ahead

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Release date

March 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2019 and 2020

Number of respondents

920 approx.*

Special properties

art dealers from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America

Supplementary notes

*The source sent a survey to over 6,000 dealers from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. It distributed it to the members of main dealer associations worldwide, such as CINOA, SLAD, SNA, CPGA, ADAA, FEAGA, and other national associations. The survey was also directly given to 500 individual galleries who participated in shows at Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong in 2019 and Online Viewing Rooms (OVRs) in 2020. This specific survey received 1,018 responses, with 98 removed due to lack of data, and 920 used in the analysis.