CROTTA Alessia

Alessia Crotta is a cultural economist and PhD student in Cultural Management at Université Libre de Bruxelles, as part of the ERC Starting Grant project MOOVA - Making Old Objects Valuable Again. The Cultural, Economic Challenges and Sustainability Opportunities of Antiques in the 21st Century. After a Bachelors in Economics and Politics (University of Milan, 2018), she pursued a Master’s in Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship (Erasmus University Rotterdam 2019). Since then she has been working at Erasmus University as a Lecturer in cultural economics, statistics and history of the art market, and more recently as collaborating researcher at Fondazione Santagata for the Economics of Culture and at ArtFiles. Her main research interests concern art markets, the economics of the cultural creative industries and the complex interrelation between cultural, art historical and economic values, which she has researched using quantitative as well as qualitative methods. Within the context of MOOVA, she is investigating and mapping the current state of the contemporary market for ordinary antiques, examining supply and current valuation strategies. In that, she aims at understanding the contemporary economic value placed in ordinary antique objects by identifying the current market structure and business models - both offline and online - by which such objects are exchanged.