Art as a strategic decision. Not just a matter of taste.

Frontier Scope, Untitled (Advice), 2026 Text on wall, ultramarine vinyl, dimensions variable Munich

Frontier Scope helps museums, companies, and collectors make better decisions about art, with curatorial judgment, hard market data, and software built for the job. One point of contact instead of four. Request a consultation

Services

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Museums & Institutions

New concepts, reconception, collection strategy

Concepts for new museums, exhibition spaces, and reopenings
Reconception of existing collections and permanent displays
Collection strategy and acquisition policy
Exhibition and spatial concepts
Grant and fellowship programmes: design, selection, juries
Reports for boards, funders, and the public

Art & Collection Consulting

Acquisitions, corporate and private collections

Briefing: budget, space, brand, and what the art should achieve
Finding and negotiating acquisitions
Building and curating corporate collections
Cataloguing, documentation, and digitisation
Valuations for insurance and market value
Storage, transport, insurance, and estate planning

Market Research

Prices, benchmarks, feasibility studies

Price and market analysis by artist, segment, and region
Benchmarks against comparable institutions and collections
Feasibility studies and business cases for new projects
Audience and visitor analysis
Findings in plain language, ready for a board decision

Custom Software

Databases, research tools, dashboards

Collection databases and online catalogues
Monitoring tools for markets, open calls, and tenders
Dashboards and reporting for boards and funders
Automation of recurring administrative work
Built around how your team actually works

AboutThe difference

Julius NiemeyerFounder, Frontier Scope
Artist and curator, Munich

A practitioner's eye. An analyst's rigor.

Most art advisors learned the field from the outside, by cataloguing what has already happened. Frontier Scope is led by Julius Niemeyer, an artist and curator who works at the current edge of contemporary art and is part of a live network of artists, gallerists, collectors, and institutions.

Having studied architecture and fine art, Julius Niemeyer spent more than a decade steering construction projects before moving into art, and today leads Kunst und Bauen GmbH, sits on the board of the Friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne, and teaches at Muthesius University of Fine Arts in Kiel.

That judgment comes with evidence. Recommendations rest on market data and structured research, and when the right tool doesn't exist, it gets built. You get artistic insight, numbers you can defend, and working software, from one person who understands all three.

Selected CV

Positions

since 2026: Managing Director, Kunst und Bauen GmbH (BBK)
since 2026: Board member, PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
since 2026: Lecturer, Muthesius University of Fine Arts, Kiel
since 2025: Board and co-direction, Rosa Stern Space e.V. and its exhibition project Nebyula
since 2024: Director, PIN.yc, young friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst
2024–26: Head of the Office for Art in Architecture, BBK Oberbayern
2011–24: Team lead, site management in architecture offices, construction volumes up to €20M

Curating & recognition

2025: ICONIC Award: Innovative Architecture for “Einprozent”, art in architecture and the Nickl & Partner collection, co-curated with Lisa Luksch
2025: Shortlist, Bavarian Art Promotion Prize
2024–25: Several public art competitions won, including Landesgartenschau Kirchheim and Isarbalkone Munich
2020: Concept and realisation of the annual exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts Munich

Talks

2025: Guest lecture “Kunst im Bestand”, TU Graz
2023: Lecture on art and AI, Buchheim Museum, Bernried, and for the law firm Graf von Westphalen

Education

2018–25: Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Diploma
2011–17: Architecture studies (Diplom programme)

Track Record

Selected

Iconic Award

Exhibition & collection

“Einprozent” for Nickl & Partner: an exhibition on art in architecture, including the cataloguing of the firm's collection. ICONIC Award 2025, Innovative Architecture.

€20M+

Project volume managed

Cost control and project steering for architecture projects. The same discipline now goes into every art budget.

€1.3M

Public art competition

Complete procedure management for a public client, from the call for entries to the finished work.

Software

Built in-house, in daily use

The best proof that software works is using it yourself. Two tools from Studio Niemeyer, the studio behind Frontier Scope:

Market research · Data

KAB Archive

An open archive of public art competitions (Kunst am Bau) in Germany. It collects calls for entries automatically and follows every procedure through to its result.

AnnouncedOpen callRunningDecidedRealised

Sources include the EU tender platform TED, artists' associations, and public building authorities
Language models read tender documents and extract deadlines, budgets, and names
The same competition from several sources is merged into one record
Winners, participants, and juries documented for every result

Launching soon at wettbewerbe-kab.de

Collections · Studio management

SPINE

Studio software for artists: a complete catalogue of works with everything around it, so the administration stops eating the time for art.

Catalogue of worksImagesLocationsContactsSalesCV & dossiers

Locations and storage, with stocktaking and QR labels on every work
A public work pass for collectors who scan a label, never showing prices or locations
CVs and application dossiers generated as PDF
Private viewing rooms, team roles, and a full change history

SaaS: studio organisation software on a subscription model

Process

How a project runs

Initial conversation

Free and without obligation. What needs to be decided, by when, and with what budget, and whether Frontier Scope is the right fit.

Analysis

Site, collection, documents, and market data: what exists, what is missing, and what comparable institutions do.

Concept

A clear recommendation with options, costs, and timeline, worked through with your team until it holds.

Implementation

Acquisitions, exhibition, study, or software, carried through to the end with regular check-ins and a clean handover.

Between every step: a thorough discussion and a feedback round. Nothing moves on until you are convinced, and the concept is shaped together with you, not delivered to you.

Approach

Principles

Independent

Paid by fee, never by commission. No gallery or auction house pays for a recommendation, so the advice stays on your side.

From inside the field

Working knowledge as an artist and curator, not a second-hand read of what is already established.

Evidence, not taste alone

Market data, benchmarks, and clear analysis behind every recommendation, so decisions hold up in front of boards and funders.

One point of contact

Concept, research, and software from one source, instead of four providers who never talk to each other.

Looking for public art competitions (Kunst am Bau)? Competition management for public clients now has its own home with the KAB Archive at wettbewerbe-kab.de, launching soon.