FPX.ART | Collecting and Trading blue-chip art

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Become an accredited family office to buy and sell high-value, certified, off-market blue-chip art

Access

By invitation only to existing clients, accredited family offices, collectors, and premium partners because the best deals happen within trustworthy networks.

Exclusive

Listings or best market price due to direct access to artwork owners (no intermediaries, ensuring efficient processes that deliver maximum value).

Secure

Data Rooms and Workflows protect your privacy and ensure only the right party receives the right information about each artwork at the right time.

Connecting

Ecosystems globally to leverage each member's strengths in terms of regional presence, premium inventory, and qualified demand for mutual benefit.

Advanced

KYC & AML standards, our Know Your Art (KYA) process, and standardized legal framework meet the highest compliance standards.

Top service

Combines state-of-the-art technology and data with a human touch. We are always just one click or call away, ready to assist based on your preferences.

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We love art and technology, time to combine the best of both worlds

Tillmann Woeske

Owner of a second-generation family office specializing in collecting and trading blue-chip art

Felix Holzapfel

Serial entrepreneur, accompanied numerous Fortune 500 and DAX 30 into the digital age

Andreas E. Lohaus

Serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder and shareholder of ART DÜSSELDORF, lawyer, and tech enthusiast

Patrick S. Lewis

MBA, cybersecurity and distributed ledger technology expert with proven sales track record

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA OF FPX.ART?: We founded FPX.ART leveraging the experience, challenges, extensive network, and key insights gained from Morgen & Stern, a family office specializing in the collection and trade of blue-chip art. Morgen & Stern managed an average potential business volume of approximately $339 million per year, with $112.6 million sourced directly from owners and serious dealers. This included works by renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Claude Monet, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Pablo Picasso. However, inefficiencies in the art market often made it challenging and time-consuming to convert this potential into actual business.

In late 2023, art entrepreneurs Tillmann Woeske and Andreas E. Lohaus met Felix Holzapfel and Patrick S. Lewis, who brought their expertise from the tech world. It quickly became evident that this was the perfect synergy to create FPX.ART—the most exclusive platform for collecting and trading blue-chip art, accessible only to selected family offices, collectors, consultants, and premium partners.
HOW DO I GET ACCESS TO FPX.ART?: If you are not yet a Morgen & Stern client or a member of our network, please start the onboarding process by clicking the "REQUEST ACCESS" button below. You will need to provide some personal information for our initial background research. If you meet our criteria, we will schedule an onboarding call with one of our managing partners to discuss your preferences, learn more about you, and introduce you to our platform, tools, and services. If both parties are satisfied with the onboarding call, you will receive your login details and gain access to FPX.ART.

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HOW DO YOU DEFINE HIGH-VALUE BLUE-CHIP ART?: On FPX.ART, high-value blue-chip art refers to artworks with a minimum value of $500,000. Currently, our inventory's median price is $2.6M, with an average price of $17M and the highest listing at $180M.
WHICH ARTWORK DO YOU CURRENTLY HAVE IN STOCK?: One of the most significant impairment risks during the sales process of any artwork is that it gets shown to too many wrong people. Therefore, we believe confidentiality is key and never show our inventory to the public! We are not just another marketplace; we have built a sophisticated workflow and platform to show artwork only to high-profile collectors within a safe, non-public space that have already indicated their interest in precisely this or similar artwork. Thus, we beg your pardon, stating that you must register first and tell us about your preferences before you get access to our premium inventory of blue-chip art. However, we can already confirm that our current inventory includes works by Andy Warhol, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Gerhard Richter, among others.
WHY FREE PORTS AND WHAT FREE PORTS DO YOU COLLABORATE WITH?: Art & Finance Report 2023 by Deloitte and ArtTactic: 28% of art collectors already use free ports, and 43% are likely to use free ports in the future. Without free ports, international art transactions are more difficult to structure, coordinate, and execute.

Supply: Direct and digital access to the most extensive storage of blue-chip art.

KYC & AML: We can use existing processes and regulations of free ports.

KYA & Trust: We only need to certify art once while onboarding to our ecosystem.

Efficiency: We optimize taxes, logistics, and complexity for international art transactions.

Hubs: With a few free ports, we already gain global coverage, get close to our clients, and only need a few local partners, e.g., for viewings and verification of artwork.

Partners: We collaborate with all free ports that are fully legally compliant and well-known to collaborate with authorities to avoid any legal issues.
DOES ARTWORK NEED TO BE IN A FREE PORT TO BE LISTED ON FPX.ART?: No, artwork does not need to be stored in a free port to be listed on FPX.ART. However, before finalizing a sale, placing the artwork in a free port is recommended to take advantage of benefits such as optimized taxes, streamlined logistics, and simplified international transactions. That said, based on our clients' preferences, it's entirely possible to complete a transaction without using a free port.
HOW DO YOU GUARANTEE LEGAL COMPLIANCE?: KYC & KYA: Our smart KYC & AML process provides complete comfort and confidentiality to our clients while also meeting all legal requirements. Additionally, free ports and legal advisors involved in the transaction have their own KYC & AML processes, too. Every artwork traded on our platform gets certified by leading and indepent third-party experts specialized in the respective artist.

Legal Advisor: We process all legal and financial matters of transactions only with legal consultants with experienced art and wealth management departments.

Free Ports: We only work with free ports that are fully legal compliant and are well-known to collaborate with authorities to avoid any legal issues.
WHY EXCLUSIVE BLUE-CHIP ART COLLECTORS NETWORK?: Sales process: Showing artwork only to accredited high-profile collectors within a secure data room offers a premium experience, avoids "burning artwork", and delivers best results.

Privacy: Our blend of exclusivity, first-class technology, and cybersecurity guarantees anonymity and security (ISO9000 and ISO27001 ready).

Experience: The best sales happen within trustworthy networks. Directly connecting buyers with sellers delivers the best results (we work only with serious dealers and no brokers).
HOW DO YOU ENSURE THE SECURITY OF MY PERSONAL DATA?: To ensure the security of our clients' and partners' data and to facilitate secure transactions, our platform complies with standards developed to protect state secrets. We only store your personal data for a brief period during our onboarding process in an online system. After approval, we promptly delete most of the data and retain only your name and contact details in a non-hackable offline system. Upon finalizing the onboarding process, you receive an anonymous ID and password for logging in to FPX.ART. This guarantees that none of your personal data can be accessed, even in the unlikely event of a breach in our online system despite the implementation of the highest security standards.
CAN GALLERIES, DEALERS, AND BROKERS GET ACCESS TOO?: We offer authorized galleries and dealers restricted access to list their inventory on FPX.ART before it becomes available anywhere else. All artwork offered by galleries or dealers must go through the same KYA process as artwork provided directly by collectors to our platform. Brokers do not have access. However, we do offer an affiliate program so they can benefit from deals within their network on our platform. Find more information under the question "DO YOU OFFER AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM?"
WHAT ARE YOUR FEES?: We charge a success-based fee of 5% to 10% of the sale price per transaction, equally split between the buyer and seller (2.5% to 5% each). This fee covers all costs through FPX.ART. Additional services, such as appraisals, logistics, or insurance, are the responsibility of the parties involved.
DO YOU OFFER AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM?: We have an affiliate program available for collectors, dealers, brokers, free ports, and other strategic partners. With this program, you can benefit from every transaction of any of your leads on our platform. There is no exclusivity requirement, so you can still make deals outside of FPX.ART if you are able to source supply and match it with demand within your network. Please reach out to us to explore how you can make the most of our affiliate program.
WHAT ARE YOUR AMBITIONS?: We aim to transform the current opaque and chaotic gray market for blue-chip art into a transparent and legally compliant white market. Our approach combines the high-quality user experience of luxury brands with a data-driven strategy from financial trading, making blue-chip art more easily tradable assets. Our goal is to expand the current $65 billion art market into a multi-trillion dollar industry by providing valuable data and efficiency to family offices, wealth managers, collectors, and premium partners increasing the supply of blue-chip art, and boosting trading frequency.
HOW DO I KNOW THAT I CAN TRUST YOU?: Trust is paramount in our multi-generation family office, Morgen & Stern, which specializes in trading and collecting fine art. We understand that trust is earned over time and can be lost in an instant. We encourage you to research our company, our team, and our partners thoroughly. Additionally, we are happy to connect you with other high-profile collectors, consultants, or dealers, who have worked with us, so you can hear about their experiences with our team and services firsthand.

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WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON ART HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC IN FREE PORTS?: First of all, we believe that it's completely up to collectors if they want to share their collection with the world or not. It is a fact that for many different reasons, more and more blue-chip art is being stored in free ports. Jean-Luc Martinez, director of the Louvre, described free ports as the greatest museums no one can see. The Geneva free port alone is home to about 1.2 million works of art, with an estimated value of US$100 billion (including around 1,000 works by Picasso). The Louvre, by comparison, has 380,000. The Geneva Freeport is the oldest and largest free port facility, but it is just one of many worldwide. This means that we are "only" digitizing habits and processes that are already very common within the art world. At the same time, we offer benefits and tools to our clients to encourage them to share their collection with the world—without their artwork losing the free port status and gaining in value at the same time. Because at the end of the day, we also agree with Jean-Luc Martinez, who said that works of art are created to be viewed.

According to your preferences, we are always just one click or call away

E-Mail

familyoffice@fpx.art

Phone

+49 030 5316 4864