As Art Basel 2020 has been postponed to September, the associated Art & Law conference held by the University of Basel (Recht aktuell – Kunst & Recht) that takes place each year on the premises of the fair has also been adjourned.

The conference will now take place on Friday 18 September, 9:15 – 17:30, and cover the following topics:

– The new EU Regulation 2019/880 of 17 April 2019 on the introduction and the import of cultural goods by Friedericke Gräfin von Brühl, Berlin

– Changing export regulations – practical viewpoint of an auction house by Bertold Müller, Zurich

– Creativity and the unknown – Psychoscientific aspects of artistic creationn by Volker Dittmann, Liestal

– Art law in light of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 and the UNIDROIT Convention of 1995 by Gerte Reichelt, Vienna

– Third Party Guarantees by Anne Laure Bandle, Geneva – Art insurance by Pascal Grolimund, Basel

– Artistic freedom in legal proceedings by Vanessa Rüegger, Basel

All presentations will be held in German and the conference proceedings will be published after the conference in a book series edited by Peter Mosimann and Beat Schönenberger (Stämpfli Verlag).

Congress Center Basel MCH Messe Basel Saal Sydney Messeplatz 21 CH-4058 Basel

More information on the speakers and the venue is available on the organiser’s webpage.