In this episode of The Art Bystander, Roland-Philippe Kretzschmar meets with Camelia Esmaili the founder and managing director of l’Atelier Camelia, a research-based art advisory and collection management firm based in Paris and Dubai having catered to some of the major art collectors in the Middle East and France, she caters to both the private and public sector for investment value art collections in modern and contemporary art, innovative emerging art acquisitions, sales and art strategy and oversee regularly curated art exhibions in art foundations on behalf of her clients. A post-war modern and contemporary art specialist and expert in modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North-Africa she developed and diversified major art collections in the Middle East and France with key acquisitions and more than 2.000 pieces. She is born and grew up in Paris and studied at Université Paris Diderot Languages and Literature, then lived ten years in Dubai and gain an exclusive insights from Arabic peninsula contemporary and modern art scenes intertwined with art from India and Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, Arab world and North Africa working for some of the biggest household names. Camelia offers expert guidance on curating and diversifying modern art collections with blue chip works fork major art scenes (mainstream and Middle East but also source form china and indian art scenes) connecting with new artists and new histories from emerging markets for new narratives. Her art investment acquisition caters to banks and sovereign funds which she is a regularly contributor (BNP Parisbas France, Mirabaux Swiss, Mubadallah Abu Dhabi etc) and has on her collector list some of the top 200 art collectors in the world . Camelia’s mission is to bridge the gap between the museum and commercial worlds through scientific art advisory services for private and public art collections with a plural art history perspectiveHer public clients includes : Farjam art foundation, Dubai Airports, Mubadallah group, Jumeirah Creekside hotel (largest corporate art collection of middle eastern contemporary Art in the Middle East) owned by Jumeirah group and and Dubai Duty Free and Mirabeau Bank among many others Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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