Let’s talk about art collecting and ethical relationships
A conversation between Piergiorgio Pepe, Co-Founder, Kerenidis Pepe Collection, and Ian Tee, Editor, Art & Market
Date: 14 August 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 7.00-8.30pm
Venue: 39 Keppel Rd, #02-01, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065
Ticket price: SGD20 (general), SGD5 (student)
Join us for an evening conversation between Piergiorgio Pepe, Co-Founder, Kerenidis Pepe Collection, and Ian Tee, Editor, Art & Market. In this session, we explore some of the ethical questions that contemporary art collectors may face, and potential pathways for them to strive as positive agents in the art world. We will explore some possible ways of collecting with social responsibility and how to support the ecosystem while doing so.
If you are a student, please write to info@artandmarket.net from your student email account to purchase your ticket at SGD5.
About the Speaker:
Piergiorgio Pepe is a senior ethics practitioner, scholar, and art collector based in Paris and Athens. With more than 20 years of experience in professional ethics with leadership roles in the healthcare industry, he now advises organisations, including museums and art unions, on ethics programs, codes and policies. A city lawyer by background, he teaches professional ethics at Sciences Po, is Executive-in-Residence at INSEAD and serves on the Ethics Society board. Since 2006, he has been collecting art (kerenidispepe.art) with his partner, Iordanis Kerenidis. Piergiorgio also co-founded Ethics of Collecting (ethicsofcollecting.org), which authored a code of conduct for contemporary art collectors; and has organised Phenomenon since 2015, a biennial art programme on Anafi island, Greece. Phenomenon also supports queer, feminist, and anti-colonial art practices in Greece via a grants program.
Iris Touliatou, Bus stop project, phenomenon 5, 24 June to 7 July 2024, Anafi. Photo by Alexandra Masmanidi.
Installation view, Dora García, Two Planets Have Been Colliding for Thousands of Years, PHI Foundation, 2021. Photo by Marc-Olivier Bécotte. Image courtesy of PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art.