WE COLLECT
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Enrique Del Rio
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Most Influential CEO 2024 - Spain (Contemporary Art)
Enrique Del Rio
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Most Influential CEO 2024 - Spain (Contemporary Art)
Gallerist, founder and CEO of WE COLLECT. Art historian and MBA Entrepreneurship from the Complutense University of Madrid. Expert in collecting and the art market, he is the founder and CEO of WE COLLECT, an art gallery with spaces in Madrid and Barcelona that represents mid-career and emerging national and international artists, such as Ana Barriga, Nuria Mora, Nelo Vinuesa, Alan Sastre, An Wei, Romain Blanck, Christoph Rymon or Carla Fuentes, among others. From WE COLLECT he also develops different projects to promote collecting, investment in art and patronage, such as WE COLLECT Studios & Residency in Carabanchel, where artists are awarded quarterly scholarships, or WE COLLECT Education. He is the director and promoter of the MBA Art Business master's degree at the CEU San Pablo University in collaboration with WE COLLECT. He has also founded other companies related to the world of art and culture, among which the first art newspaper in Spanish, hoyesarte_com, stands out at just 19 years old, and has helped as a mentor to found and promote more than ten startups. He has been a contributor on art and collecting writing in more than 30 publications and magazines he has given more than 200 conferences, training courses and talks on art or collecting at different universities, such as the Complutense University, Instituto de Empresa, CEU or URJC and institutions such as the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, the Museum of Romanticism or Telephone Foundation.