ADVISORY SCOPE
WHO IS AEVUM OFFICE FOR?
Aevum Office is designed for single family offices (SFOs), multi-family offices (MFOs), UHNW families, collectors, trustees, and professional advisors responsible for significant art collections or cultural assets.
We work with clients who require a discreet, informed, and practical layer of support across collection strategy, acquisition review, collection management, legacy planning, and cultural positioning.
HOW DOES AEVUM OFFICE WORK WITH EXISTING ADVISORS?
Aevum Office works alongside existing family office infrastructure.
We help families and advisors make better-informed decisions about the purpose, value, risk, care, and future direction of a collection.
To do so, we work together with your investment managers, lawyers, tax advisors, estate planners, trustees, and insurers, acting as the specialist art and cultural advisory layer within that wider structure.
Aevum Office acts as the dedicated art advisory layer within the wider family office structure, coordinating where required with specialist valuers, legal advisors, insurers, registrars, conservators, and other qualified professionals.
WHAT DOES ‘INTEGRATED ART DEPARTMENT’ MEAN?
An integrated art department is a dedicated advisory and management function for families and their advisors.
For some clients, this may mean strategic review of an existing collection. For others, it may mean ongoing collection oversight, acquisition support, deaccessions, artist and gallery relationships, institutional engagement, documentation, valuation coordination, estate planning support, or the development of a clearer long-term collecting strategy.
The role is flexible, but the principle is consistent: Aevum Office brings specialist art expertise into the family office environment.
WHAT KINDS OF COLLECTIONS DOES AEVUM OFFICE SUPPORT?
Aevum Office supports families and advisors working with modern and contemporary art, design, collectible objects, archives, commissions, and other cultural assets.
We work in particular with collections that have reached a point where they require more structure: clearer documentation, sharper acquisition logic, more active management, stronger advisor coordination, or a more defined relationship to legacy, liquidity, family identity, or institutional value.
DOES AEVUM OFFICE ADVISE ON ACQUISITIONS?
Yes. Aevum Office can support acquisition strategy, market context, sourcing, due diligence coordination, negotiation support, and post-acquisition planning.
We help families and advisors understand not only whether a work is desirable, but whether it belongs within the collection’s wider purpose, value profile, risk position, and long-term direction.
DOES AEVUM OFFICE ADVISE ON REBALANCING OR SELLING A COLLECTION?
Yes. Aevum Office advises on collection review, rebalancing, repositioning, and deaccession (selling) strategy.
This may include identifying works that no longer serve the collection’s purpose, assessing market timing, coordinating valuations, reviewing sale routes, and supporting conversations with auction houses, galleries, private dealers, and specialist advisors.
DOES AEVUM OFFICE PROVIDE VALUATION OR TAX ADVICE?
Yes. Aevum Office works alongside your investment, legal, tax, estate advisors, and trustees, as well as providing assessments and advice from qualified specialists. We help a family or office understand what advice is needed, when it is needed, and how it should inform the wider collection strategy.
DOES AEVUM OFFICE SUPPORT ESTATE, SUCCESSION, AND LEGACY PLANNING?
Yes. Aevum Office supports families and advisors thinking through the future of a collection across generations.
This may include collection purpose, family governance, next-generation engagement, institutional relationships, potential gifts or loans, archive development, documentation, visibility, privacy, and long-term stewardship.
We help translate a collection from a group of assets into a considered cultural and family legacy.
DOES AEVUM OFFICE WORK WITH NEXT-GENERATION FAMILY MEMBERS?
Yes. Aevum Office supports next-generation principals who are beginning to define their own relationship to art, collecting, patronage, cultural experience, and family assets.
This may include education, advisory conversations, introductions, collection visits, institutional access, travel, acquisition support, or the development of independent cultural projects.
DOES AEVUM OFFICE WORK INTERNATIONALLY?
Yes. Aevum Office works internationally, with a focus on Singapore, India, the Middle East, and selected global cultural capitals.
Our work is relationship-led and context-specific. We build around the client’s existing structures, geography, collection, family priorities, and desired level of visibility.
Our experience and networks are global.
IS AEVUM OFFICE’S WORK PUBLIC-FACING?
Usually not. Most of Aevum Office’s work is private and discreet.
Some projects may have a public dimension where appropriate, particularly around museum loans, patronage, institutional partnerships, commissions, philanthropy, publishing, or cultural programming. Public visibility is considered carefully and never assumed.
HOW DO ENGAGEMENTS BEGIN?
Engagements begin with a complimentary consultation.
We first establish the family’s existing structures, collection history, current advisors, priorities, sensitivities, and desired level of involvement. From there, Aevum Office determines with you the services required for your collection.
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF WORKING WITH AEVUM OFFICE?
Aevum Office gives families and their advisors a clearer view of what they own, why it matters, what it requires, and what it could become.
We help collections move from accumulation to intention: from objects held privately to assets understood strategically, cared for properly, and positioned in relation to value, purpose, legacy, and future use.