The Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Business Management is aimed at those who want to develop a professional career in the art world. Our program offers an educational model in line with the current and changing demands of the sector, together with an eminently practical methodology. This, together with the solid network of contacts of professionals, institutions and companies with which we have collaborated since the first edition in 2005, makes it possible for you to work in art galleries, auction houses, consultancies, fairs, festivals and events, as well as in the specialized press or in the field of curating.
The program has a complete curriculum that covers all the professional aspects of the art market, with special attention to the agents that operate in it —such as galleries, art fairs and auction houses—, to the analysis of the global market, conceptual understanding and economic valuation of works of art, as well as cultural management and the practice of curating.
Read +The Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Business Management also provides its students with the necessary skills and abilities in areas such as finance, communication, marketing and negotiation so that they are able to create and manage their own company.
With a faculty of professors who combine academic excellence with professional activity in the sector, the Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Business Management is taught using the 'learning by doing' methodology. In this way, students get involved in the development of projects and the management of situations that prepare them to face their future professional challenges in the art market successfully.
The academic program of the Master's degree is complemented by an internship policy that allows direct knowledge of the professional praxis in some of the most important companies and institutions in the sector, in a range that includes the main galleries, fairs, auction houses and consultancies of art, as well as museums and artists' studios.
Committed to revitalizing the contemporary art sector in Spain, the Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Business Management organizes an exhibition of contemporary art every year curated by a team made up of students. The exhibition, in which top-level artists on the national scene participate, is also linked to the granting of a prestigious Acquisition Award, which is in its seventh edition in 2023, and will once again recognize the work of a contemporary artist among the participants, thus supporting contemporary artistic creation.
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All our degrees and curricula have been prepared in accordance with the new guidelines set by current legislation, having already been verified by the National Agency for Quality Assessment.
The student must take 60 credits
Profesores Professors | Porcentaje de Doctores (ECTS) Percentage of PhD holders |
27 | 75,86% |
Official Degree:Master's Degree in Art Market and Management of Related Companies
The desired profile includes graduates, bachelor's degree holders, or engineers. A university education in a specific field is not required. We assess qualities that suggest good integration into the group, such as the ability to engage in dialogue, an open mind, and a willingness to share and actively participate in course development. The program benefits from the diverse backgrounds of its participants, fostering knowledge of international business management and promoting intercultural exchange.
Professional with good knowledge of the operation and profiles required by the art system, with the ability to integrate in its different areas, as well as to innovate and undertake new cultural and business projects.
60 ECTS credits.
Minimum 12 ECTS and maximum 60 ECTS per registration and academic period
Academic year in which it was implemented: - Accredited in 2019
- 2005 (Own degree)
- 2009 (Official Master`s Degree)
- 2015 (Accredited)
Center responsible:School of Communication and Arts
Branch of knowledge: Social and Legal Sciences
Available places: Classroom attendance: 45
Blended: 30
Online: 20
Type of Education: Classroom attendance / Blended / Online
Academic year in which it was implemented:
Languages: Spanish / English
Duration: 1 year. From October to June. Classes from Monday to Thursday, in the afternoons from 4:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
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Graduates of the Master's Degree in Art Market and Management of Related Companies are trained to work in:
The Master's program in Art Market and Related Business Management at Nebrija University has full official validity (Order 3534/2009, of July 22, of the Department of Education of the Autonomous Community of Madrid), and therefore is valid throughout the European Union and in the other signatory countries of the Bologna Agreements.
This important opportunity allows our graduates to have an Official Postgraduate Degree in accordance with the standards of academic quality and professional orientation required by the different countries of the European Higher Education Area.
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On the occasion of the commemoration in 2022 of the 5th Centenary of the death of Antonio de Nebrija and for the sixth consecutive year, Nebrija University recognizes through the Acquisition Prize in Recognition of Artistic Creation the work of an artist from among the five participants in 'Verses and versions: from word to image', an exhibition that explores the connections and influences of literature and storytelling with the plastic arts.
Dates: June 24 - July 10, 2022. Centro Cultural Galileo, Sala Primera Planta
Artists: Mercedes Azpilicueta (La Plata, 1981), Marla Jacarilla (Alicante, 1980), Glenda León (La Habana, 1976), Julia Llerena (Sevilla, 1985) y Almudena Lobera (Madrid, 1984).
Nebrija University celebrates the 5th edition of its Acquisition Award with the collective Exhibition: “Nammu: Primordial Waters”.
It is an exhibition of students from the Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Business Management, directed by the independent curator Andrea Pacheco, whose award aims to contribute to cultural dynamization, promoting artistic creation and implementing good practices in the Master's cultural projects.
Dates: June 12 to 26, 2021. Aural Galería. C/ Pelayo, 68. Madrid.
Artists: Timothy Hyunsoo Lee, Weixin Quek Chong, Moreno & Grau, Elsa Paricio, Clara Sanchez Sala, Zoé T. Vizcaíno.
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July 15 to 22, 2020. Espacio CRUCE. Arte y Pensamiento, Madrid.
Artists: Paula Anta, Andrea Canepa, Alberto Cea, Andrés Fernández, Cristina Garrido, Irene Grau, Daniel Martín Corona, Ignacio Uriarte.
Curatorial team: Cristina Artés, Carlota Barrientos, Marta Elena, Nuria Martínez, María Ocaña, Isabela Rodríguez.
June 20 to July 18, 2019, Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid
Artists: Tamara Arroyo, Ana Barriga, Sara Coleman, Marian Garrido, Javier Palacios, Ana Sánchez, José Antonio Vallejo, An We.
Curators: Claudia Font, Irma González, Paula Narros, Mario Navarro, Yuan Xie
10 May to 10 June 2018, Galileo Cultural Center
The exhibition Liminal State presents the work of a series of artists who, in different formats and perspectives, reflect on this particular state through which the contemporary subject goes through.
Artists: Irene Cantero (Sevilla, 1985), Fito Conesa (Cartagena, 1980), Mario Espliego (Guadalajara, 1983), Núria Güell (Girona, 1981), Jimena Kato (Lima, 1979), Nacho Martín Silva (Madrid, 1977), Andrés Pachón (Madrid, 1985), Paula Rubio Infante (Madrid, 1977).
Curation team: María Alcalá, Désirée Arrizabalaga, Marta Corral, Celso Cuesta, Ángela Ruiz and Yu Wang.
May 2017, Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid
Based on a critical positioning, a selection shown by artists that value trash not only in its aesthetic dimension, but as a source of knowledge of the societies and individuals that generate it.
Artists: Álvaro Torres, Basurama, Elisa Pardo, Enrique Radigales, Gala Knörr, Isidro López-Aparicio, Jon Gorospe, Julia Llerena, Manuel Antonio Domínguez, Raúl Hidalgo.
Equipo curatorial: Alejandro Montes, Ana Muñoz Estepa, Beatriz Pérez Campaña, Ying Qu
June 2016, Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid
This exhibition project covers both the traditional way of romantic representation of the landscape, and the approach to the landscape from the experiential point of view, where artists are interested in their own experience, having it as a determining element.
Artists: Nagore Amenabarro, Alda Andrés Rodrigálvanez, Jose Cháfer Cruz, Javier Fernández Pérez de Lis, Diógenes Ferrándiz, Teresa Jareño Querejeta, Julia Llerena, Lucía Loren, Clara Sánchez-Sala, Víctor Santamarina, Anaya Subierviola and Fernando Villena.
Curation team: Ainhize Errekatxo Rekalde, Ruth Gómez de Santiago, Ángela Organero Manzanero.
June 2015, Matadero Design Center-Madrid
The collective exhibition aims to make known the mechanisms, methodologies and situations that have to do with the creative process in three converging areas: design, architecture and fine arts. The exhibition includes a set of documentary materials related to creation processes, as well as a selection of 17 projects that use varied languages and formats: from the design of furniture to the architectural project, through photography or installation pieces. The works constitute a representation of the undergraduate degrees of Fine Arts; Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development; and Fundamentals of Architecture taught at the Antonio Nebrija University of Madrid.
Artists: Daniel Cortieu, Antía P. Fernández, Eva M. Rodríguez, Kevin Jesús González, Daniel Gómez, Rafael Romero, Alberto Vera, Teresa Jiménez, Elisa Cuesta, David Mesa, Álvaro Zuñiga ,Pablo de Felipe, Clara Rodríguez, Adriana Gómez, Miriam Sanz, Azucena Alba, Virginia Lallana, Alberto Magno, Eva Mansergas, Rocío Martín Gorbe, Natalia Minguela, Mariana Montes de Oca, María José Cosano.
Exhibit design: Diógenes Ferrándiz, Marta Del Ganso, Cristina Navarro and Miguel Guzmán.
Graphic design: Bárbara Galiano and Rodrigo Martínez.
Curation team: Diego Díez Díez, Guadalupe Linares Linares, Laura Darriba Rodríguez y Postrimera Beard Gómez coordinados por Amaia de Meñaka.
June 2014. Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid.
A current reflection on time and its nature in the hands of emerging and consecrated artists supported by two key concepts: memory and a moment. Based on this idea, that of the moment, the work of art is presented as its materialization, or in other words, the work of art as a moment in itself.
Artists: Lucía Alonso, Cuco, Silvia Cuenca, Esther Faúndez, Fiz Gratacós, Sila Herrera, Miguel Marina, Juan Martínez, Jacob Medrano, Mariano Sánchez, Darío Villalba and Juan Zamora.
Curation team: Students of the 9th Edition of the Master's Degree in Art Market and Management of Related Companies
June 2013, Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid
What is it that we hope for? What is the wait like? And above all, how is the concept of waiting addressed by current art? These questions are dealt with in "Tomorrow. Urgent practices of current art", an artistic project that aims to delve into expectation from contemplation, but also from action.
Artists: Elisa Cuesta, Javier Cruz, Humberto Díaz + Daniel Silvo, M. Diógenes Ferrándiz, Lucía García (Maya Kapouski), Manuel Pérez de Guzmán, Alba Soto and Daniel Valls.
Curation team: Yue Chen, Matilde Gil Rovira, Paula Gómez, Rafael Heredia, Jennifer R. Lafuente Canicio, Ana Orovio Loro, Carmen Pérez de Guzmán, Laura Vila Lorenzo coordinated by Lola Iglesias.
June 2012, Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid
The exhibition analyzes the crisis of traditional models of knowledge and representation, and the current influence of new technologies. In short, a paradigm shift in art that shapes new realities.
Artists: Julio Adán, Irene de Andrés, Joan Cabrer, Colectivo L2, Fernando Gutiérrez y .tape., Cristóbal Hernández, Esther Mañas, Regina de Miguel, Álvaro Martínez, Flavio Mielnik, Rafa Munárriz, Bruno Ollé, Bárbara Sánchez, Enrique Tomás, Paloma Polo and Julia Varela.
Curation team: Students of the 7th edition of the Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Companies of the Antonio de Nebrija University
Members of the curatorial team: Juana Arana, Elena García, Raquel Gómez, María Marco, Carlota Pérez-Reverte, Lourdes Pujante, Andere Santiesteban, Sonsoles Vidal.
Conference by Gloria G. Durán (PhD in Fine Arts, painter, writer, researcher and professor): "Entre celda y lanzadera. Derivas de la habitación del artista"
June 2011, Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid.
The exhibit has the artist's room as a generic conceptual framework, its closest everyday space, the room of oneself. The title of the exhibition refers to that intimate space that we all protect and that we keep inside.
Artists: Diego Barrera and Julieta Triangular, Betsué-Vives, Sandra Blanca Arana, María García-Ibáñez, Andrés Montes, Antía Moure, Xavi Muñoz, Concha Prada, Belén Rodríguez González, Cristina Toledo, Alvaro Urbano, François Vanneraud.
Curation team: Cristina Arias, Eva Lapuente, Antonio López, Henar Pérez, Alma Sánchez.
Members of the curatorial team: Juana Arana, Elena García, Raquel Gómez, María Marco, Carlota Pérez-Reverte, Lourdes Pujante, Andere Santiesteban, Sonsoles Vidal.
Lecture by Juan Canela (independent curator): ¿"Os acordáis de cuándo había horizonte"?
June 2010, Municipal Board of Arganzuela, Madrid.
Collective exhibition of contemporary art explores 'the complexity of what is real' from Lewis Carroll and his famous work 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Curation team: Students of the 5th edition of the Master's Degree in Art Market and Related Companies of the Antonio de Nebrija University.
Artists: Sae Aparicio, Juan Baraja, Misha Bies, Estéfani Bouza, Paco Cao, Zaida Cordero, Julio Falagán, Alexandra Fernández, Javi Larrauri, José Luis Serzo, Sheila Pazos, and Afrodita Psarra.