Founder of ARTUNER

Eugenio Re Rebaudengo is an entrepreneur, collector and curator, eager to share his passion for contemporary art.

He founded ARTUNER in 2013 with the aim of creating an innovative platform for artists and collectors. From then, he organized over 30 international exhibitions with over 100 artists. As a collector, Re Rebaudengo was recognized in the "40 Under 40 Global "by Apollo Magazine in 2017 and 2019 in the" 50 Collectors to watch" from ArtNews.

ARTUNER is an innovative and 'hybrid' art platform that organizes curated exhibitions by contemporary artists, both online and through a program of dynamic international pop-up exhibitions.

Founder and Chairman of SAF

Howard Bilton is Chairman and founder of The Sovereign Group – one of the world’s largest privately-owned consultancies specialising in the provision of offshore trusts and companies and associated international tax advice.

Howard currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Howard holds a joint honours degree in classics and law from the University of Keele and is qualified as a Barrister and called to the Bars of England/Wales and Gibraltar. As a visiting non-resident Professor at Texas A and M University, he assists with their LLM and Master’s degrees in International Tax and Offshore Centres. He is a regular contributor of articles to numerous newspapers and technical new wires.

In Hong Kong in 2003, Howard formed The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF), a charitable organisation also registered in Guernsey, Malta, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. SAF runs a range of art prizes designed to increase the exposure of artists in the region, while raising money to help disadvantaged children. SAF has raised over US$9 million and has helped thousands of disadvantaged children using expressive arts as a means of education and rehabilitation.

Howard is also the Founder and Chairman of Howard’s Folly Wines, Portugal. All wines use art on the labels and often feature work by finalists of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize of the same year. A proportion of the wine operations revenue goes to support SAF.

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British Artist

Born in Birmingham in 1978, Idris Khan completed his Master’s Degree at the Royal College of Art and lives and works in London. He was appointed an OBE for services to Art in the Queen’s Birthday 2017 Honours List and has also received an Honorary Doctorate of literature.

Solo and group presentations of the artist's work have been previously staged at national and international institutional venues include, ‘The World Within’ Walsall Art Gallery, 2017, The Whitworth Gallery, University of Manchester (2016– 2017 and 2012); Gothenburg Konsthall, Sweden (2011); Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2010); Kunsthaus Murz, Murzzuschlag, Austria (2010) and K20, Düsseldorf (2008). National Gallery of Art, Washington (2015); Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2014 -2015); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2014); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida (2013); The British Museum, London (2012); National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2012); Fundament Foundation, Tilburg (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); and Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin (2009).

Art market columnist – Financial Times, Editor-at-large – The Art Newspaper and author of Art as an Investment?

Melanie Gerlis became the art market columnist for the Financial Times in September 2016. She was previously Art Market Editor at The Art Newspaper (2007-2016), before which she worked in financial communications at Finsbury in London, advising investment banks, hedge funds and other financial services clients.

(1996-2005). She is a trustee of The Art Academy and Art360 and a member of the governing body for Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She has a BA from Cambridge University and an MA from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her book, ‘Art as an Investment?’, was published in 2014 (Lund Humphries).

Specialist, Head of Day Sale at Phillips

With over eleven years of experience in the art world, Tamila is the Director in the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Department at Phillips Auction House. For over five years she has headed record breaking Day sales that focus on bringing desirable contemporary artists onto the market. Tamila sits on the young committee of the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel.