The Intersection of the Commercial and Civic Arts in Creating impactful Curatorial Strategies

Reflections from a Conference and Lessons for ODBK by Mark Barrett In February, I attended an interesting conference at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London called “Curating and the Art Market,” in my capacity as the London and UK Representative for ODBK. I went with the hope of developing new partnerships and collaborations between ODBK [...]

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Reclaiming the Future, Rewriting the Past: Art Resistance in Latin America

by Nicole Cunha Latin America has, for years, been striving to overcome the legacies of its colonial past — a history that spread across the region, subordinating it to so-called “developed” countries, primarily in Europe and the United States. This colonial domination laid the foundation for many of the structural problems that persist in Latin [...]

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Inclusive curation

Inclusive curation Implementing EDI and Compliance strategies in museums and art collections This is a summary of the Lecture given for our ODBK team member Kornelia Starczewska at the Conference “(CURE)ators UAP: (Re)defining Curatorship – Contemporary Practices and Theories of Curating” – Paper titled “Inclusive Curating: Implementing EDI and Compliance Strategies in Museums and Art Collections” (May 2025, [...]

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Palestinian Artists and the Struggle for Freedom of Expression in the West

by Nycole Cunha Freedom of expression in the West has been a contentious issue, often intersecting with political censorship, discrimination, and restrictions based on geopolitical interests. The ongoing genocide promoted by Israel in Palestine has put the land through dark times, with, it’s consequences have a great impact in the lives of Palestinian artists — [...]

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DECOLONISING THE ARTS

By Edna Santos (Photography by Guillaume Valli, 04 October 2024, Tate Britain) Transforming Collections was the name given to this 3-year project led by an UAL Professor of Contemporary Art and Director. This project ran between scholars from Britain and 14 national and international collections and archives. A “Discovery Project” and part of – A [...]

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David Hinojosa Admann

Director and founder of the ODBK

Originally from Mexico, David Hinojosa Admann now lives and works in Berlin. With a background in computer science and marketing, Hinojosa Admann studied and obtained his MFA in Madrid 2003, and has since exhibited extensively throughout Europe and Central America. In 2005 he launched Stockartist.org, a stock exchange for artists and an online art market simulator. This was shown at ARCO Madrid, in Arte Alameda and TransitioMX, and named one of the most influential electronic artists in Mexico. He worked as an advisor for Artfacts.Net developing the "artist ranking" and online tools for art collectors. In 2016 founded the Organization for the Democratization of the Visual Arts (ODBK) a activist organization whose objective is to insert a new economic model and reference for the art market, ODBK currently has more than 600

members from around the world. Hinojosa Admann’s practice ranges from traditional media, like drawing and painting, to multidisciplinary and media and artistic research. His projects address the relationship between conceptual art, commerce, and democratization of the contemporary art world. David Hinojosa Admann’s work critically, and sometimes humorously, reflect on the circumstantial phenomena of the art market.

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