Arts and Culture

IPrime provides specialist legal counsel in the art and culture areas.

IPrime’s art law practice combines knowledge in art and cultural heritage protection law with its expertise in intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, and dispute resolution. We assist, counsel, and represent collectors, artists, galleries, auction houses, museums and cultural institutions in contract drafting, pre-litigation actions and settlement negotiations, as well as in the enforcement of claims before courts.

Drawing on a wealth of experience in multi-jurisdictional proceedings and arbitration disputes, IPrime handles complex art market litigation for its clients. We advise in respect of Swiss law and, where necessary, instruct and coordinate our trusted network of foreign law firms and specialists.

Our attorneys frequently publish, teach, and speak on art-law and cultural heritage protection related issues.

IPrime represents stage artists before Swiss and arbitral courts

Our firm represented artists before the Stage Arbitration Court regarding stage employment law and financial claims from contracts of work and direction as well as before criminal, public and civil courts regarding claims for stage accidents.

IPrime counsels a Zurich gallery in a contract dispute

IPrime counseled a Swiss contemporary art gallery in successfully resolving a contractual dispute against an art center.

Raphael Zingg

Arts and Culture

Counseling artists, collectors, galleries and cultural institutions