Legal matters for artists, gallerists, and collectors with art lawyer Laurens Kasteleijn.
Every week, artist and entrepreneur Oscar Venhuis talks with fellow artists, curators, collectors and gallerists in Asia. The Last Supper podcast is available on Spotify, Apple podcast, Google podcast.
Laurens Kasteleijn, art lawyer and founder of Art Law Services.
Episode 1 | In this episode of The Last Supper I talk with art lawyer Laurens Kasteleijn about basic copyrights, what constitutes an agreement, the tricky practice of art-flipping and the requirements of a provenance. We also discuss the role and differences between arbitration and mediation and other legal matters in the art world.
Laurens Kasteleijn is the founder of Art Law Services, a Hong Kong and Amsterdam-based consultancy that is offering legal services to individuals and organisations in the international art world.
As a former art gallery director and corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyer, Laurens founded Art Law Services in 2013, combining his love for the arts with his legal training and his expertise of international business. Laurens holds a master’s degree in corporate law from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, studied in France and at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Laurens has lectured on ‘Legal Issues in the Art World’ at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in Hong Kong and in London, and writes frequently on this subject. He is the co-author of the Dutch chapter of the IBA Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee report.
In addition to holding the position of Chair of the Art and Law Association in the Netherlands, he is a member of the Royal Asian Art Society, committee member of the IPBA, member of PAIAM, legal committee member of the Art Identification Standard, and a contributor to the Responsible Art Market initiative in Switzerland.
In 2021 he founded a new company ‘Kasteleijn Mediation & Arbitration’ that specialises in solving art disputes for which Laurens is a registered mediator with the Court of Arbitration of Art (CAfA) in The Hague.
Art Law Services B.V.
Strawinskylaan 3051
1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phone : +31 (0)20 301 2101
Art Law Services Limited
25/F, 2-12 Queen's Road West
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Phone : +852 3952 7300
Website: www.artlawservices.com
Linkedin: Art Law Services
Instagram: @art.law.services
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