Ruth Polleit Riechert

Dr. Ruth Polleit Riechert holds a doctorate in art history. She studied art history and English at the University of Marburg under Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kemp and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Dilly (among others). With a scholarship from the Art History Seminar in Marburg, she studied History of Art, English and Computer Science for a year at Goldsmiths College in London. She continued her studies at the Ruhr University under Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss in order to deepen her focus on "contemporary art" and to combine art history with business administration. She graduated from the Humboldt University in Berlin under Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp. Her master's thesis deals with painters from the Düsseldorf Art Academy: " Copyist or assimilation genius? Andreas Achenbach and the Dutch of the 17th and 19th centuries." ​ In 2012, she received her doctorate from the Department of Art History at Düsseldorf's Heinrich Heine University with her empirical dissertation " Marketing and price development of contemporary art from 2000 to 2007" . In it, she was the first to be able to measure artists' success criteria using marketing and public relations success analyses and to link them to price developments. The work thus forms the basis for numerous subsequent studies in the field of contemporary art and the art market. ​ Dr. Ruth Polleit Riechert has been working in the art and finance world for more than 20 years (Christie's, Ketterer auction house, Deutsche Bank, McKinsey & Company, UBS Art Banking). She draws on experience in marketing & communication, strategy, client relationship management, private public partnership as well as art and culture management. For example, she has set up the press work for the Ketterer auction house, managed an international competition with art schools in Tokyo, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Offenbach and exhibitions in London, Tokyo, New York and Frankfurt for Deutsche Bank , developed an art collection for the new FIFA building in Zurich together with Prof. Jean-Christophe Amann, accompanied the American artist John Baldessari at his PR appearance to mark the publication of his book at Art Basel and set up a cooperation between McKinsey & Company and the K21 museum. In 2016, she developed a digital marketing strategy for the American art consultant Annelien Bruins and edited her book » Managing relationships in the art market - For aspiring art advisors and new art collectors« . ​ Since 2017, she has been independently implementing innovative art projects at the interface between art and business. She advises private and corporate clients as well as public institutions. With the internationally established artist Amparo Sard, she launched the Amparo Sard x RPR ART Mallorca Residency for graduates from renowned art academies. Together with the Frankfurt artist Raphael Brunk, she founded the digital 3D ARTSPACE NEXUS. Her aim is to enable access to the art market for everyone and to simplify it by imparting knowledge. To this end, she advocates new technologies and price transparency on the art market. ​ Ruth Polleit Riechert was a jury member at the international exhibition IDENTITY in 2020 of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt together with Prof. Bernd Kracke, President of the HfG Offenbach, Iris Hasler, Städel Museum and Ina Lockhart, FAZ. She is a member of the German Castle Association, the Association of German Art Historians and the Digital Art History Working Group. ​ Since 2021 she has been part of the team of experts for the "Fine Arts" course at the ADEMA Art School at the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca. In February 2022, her book " Buying Art " was published by Springer Verlag . In 2022, she was a jury member for the 9th award of the Cultural Foundation of the Municipal Savings Banks Offenbach am Main for young artists and designers at the Offenbach am Main University of Art and Design. Since 2022, she has been writing regularly about the art market in her column for the Frankfurter Rundschau .