FPX.ART | Deal Enablement Platform for blue-chip fine art

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Deal Enablement Platform (DEP) for blue-chip fine art

Optimize your sales process, deal flow, and customer experience—only accessible to selected galleries and dealers.

Efficiency

Thanks to advanced data and technology, efficient processes, and our standardized legal framework, we speed up the supply meeting demand process.

Full control

Our secure, anonymized, step-by-step deal workflow offers your artwork only to selected high-profile collectors who meet strict, pre-defined criteria.

Know Your Art (KYA)

Using advanced AI procedures and third-party market data, we enhance your listings with valuable insights to help collectors make informed decisions quickly.

Premium Experience

Our elite target audience and your premium artwork deserve the most visually appealing and functionally advanced presentation on their preferred device.

Expand your network

Benefit from our carefully selected UHNWI network and gain access to top-tier collectors and high-quality art supplies through our global free port partners.

You can only win

We provide highest security standards and offer payment based on success. You may still use your traditional approach if we cannot sell your artwork.

Access only to selected collectors and partners

Because the best deals happen within trustworthy networks.

Collectors

FPX.ART elevates the experience and opportunities for UHNWI collectors in acquiring, selling, and managing blue-chip fine art and premium collections.

Consultants

Our advanced tools, technology, and expertise enable consultants to prioritize client needs, eliminating various inefficiencies of the market.

Wealth Managers

Our cutting-edge technology and legally compliant KYC, KYA, and AML processes introduce innovative ways to integrate art into investment strategies.

Galleries & Dealers

We collaborate with top art galleries and dealers to offer our clients a one-stop shop for first-choice blue-chip fine art before it's available anywhere else.

BUY ART

SELL ART

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

FPX.ART is rooted in Morgen & Stern's heritage as a family office specializing in trading and collecting blue-chip fine art for generations.

Tillmann Woeske

One of the leading art entrepreneurs in Germany and beyond with a strong global network of collectors

Andreas E. Lohaus

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

Felix Holzapfel

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

Patrick S. Lewis

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

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

HOW DO I GET ACCESS TO FPX.ART?: If you are not yet a Morgen & Stern partner or a member of our network, please initiate the onboarding process by clicking the "BUY ART" or "SELL ART" button below. You will need to provide some information about yourself and your business for our initial background checks. If you meet our criteria, we will arrange an onboarding call with one of our managing partners to discuss your preferences and our possible collaboration. If both parties are satisfied with the onboarding call, you will receive your login details and get access to our FPX.ART platform and ecosystem.

BUY ART

SELL ART
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 fine art. However, we can already tell that our current inventory includes works by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, and Andy Warhol.
WHY EXCLUSIVE UHNWI COLLECTORS NETWORK?: Sales process: Showing artwork only to selected high-profile collectors within a safe space 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).
WHAT ARE YOUR FEES?: First of all, we work 100% success based. If we don't sell your artwork, you don't have to pay a fee.

Furthermore, comparing fees alone can be misleading as there are often hidden costs. The best way to compare different methods of trading art is by considering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This involves calculating the difference between the total proceeds for the seller and the total price for the buyer, including all fees and costs such as provisions, logistics, insurance, legal advice, and due diligence. On average, for an artwork with US$1 million in proceeds for the seller, the TCO numbers are as follows:

Auction house: 47,97%
FPX.ART: 11,00%

The prices listed do not include VAT, import duties, or export duties. Often, the cost savings of trading high-value artwork through FPX.ART are significantly higher compared to other sales channels. Additionally, it's important to consider the lower impairment risk and better liquidity, as well as the shorter time it takes to sell and buy art through FPX.ART compared to most of our competitors.

We are happy to provide you with detailed calculations, as well as further information about our services, fees, and their advantages.
HOW DO YOU PROTECT THE SECURITY OF OUR 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. For example, we only store personal data briefly during the onboarding process in an online system. After approval, we promptly delete most of the data and retain only the name and contact details in a non-hackable offline system located in a highly secure facility. Upon finalizing the onboarding process, users receive an anonymous ID for logging in and conducting transactions on the online marketplace and ecosystem of FPX.ART. This guarantees that none of your data can be accessed, even in the unlikely event of a breach in our online system, despite the implementation of the highest security standards.
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.
CAN BROKERS GET ACCESS TOO?: No, 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?"
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.
HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA OF FPX.ART?: We established FPX.ART based on the potential business, existing network, and key learnings of Morgen & Stern, which was founded by Tillmann Woeske in 2010. Morgen & Stern had an average potential business of about $339 million per year, with $112.6 million directly from owners and serious dealers, including works by 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 tangible business. At the end of 2023, art entrepreneurs Tillmann Woeske and Andreas E. Lohaus met Felix Holzapfel and Patrick S. Lewis, who were rooted in the tech world. It quickly became clear that this was the perfect match and breeding ground to build FPX.ART, the first online marketplace and ecosystem focusing on blue-chip and fine art in free ports—only accessible to selected collectors, consultants, and wealth managers (exclusive UHNWI network).
WHAT ARE YOUR AMBITIONS?: We aim to transform the current opaque and chaotic gray market for blue-chip fine 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 fine 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 wealth managers and leading collectors, increasing the supply of blue-chip fine 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.

MEET THE TEAM
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 fine 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.
IS THERE "ONE MORE THING"?: Indeed, we are the first collaborative platform for wealth managers, family offices, consultants, galleries, and dealers to actively support collectors in managing their portfolios.

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

E-Mail

gallery@fpx.art

Phone

+49 030 5316 4864