ZADIK

Zentralarchiv für deutsche und internationale Kunstmarktforschung

The ZADIK | Central Archive for German and International Art Market Studies is an academic institute of the University of Cologne. It is dedicated to archiving, processing, critically and reflectively researching, and communicating the history, structures, contexts, and developments of international art systems. Today, the Central Archive comprises over 200 holdings of gallery owners, art dealers, auction houses, art critics, curators, specialist photographers, and other protagonists in the art market, focusing on the period from the early 20th century to the present. As the world's first specialized archive on the history of art market, ZADIK was founded in 1992 and transferred to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne in 2020. Since 2003, the ZADIK has been offering courses at the Department of Art History of the University of Cologne