About the Programme
Christie’s London Work Experience Programme offers individuals the opportunity to gain first-hand insight into the world’s leading art business.
The programme is designed for those with a genuine interest in art, business, and careers within the art market. Participants will gain exposure to Christie’s day-to-day operations and develop an understanding of how different teams work together across specialist, operational, and corporate functions.
The experience is primarily observational and shadowing-based, providing meaningful insight rather than independent responsibility.
We offer a limited number of work experience placements in our London offices each year. Placements are dependent on departmental availability and business needs and can last between one and four weeks, with four weeks being the maximum length.
Availability varies throughout the year to ensure participants join at times when teams are able to offer a meaningful and engaging experience.
Work experience at Christie’s is voluntary and unpaid. However, we provide:
If you are looking for paid opportunities, please explore our careers page HERE.
Standard working hours are 9:00am–5:00pm, Monday to Friday, and participants are expected to follow a smart business dress code.
Placements are offered across the following clusters, subject to availability:
Applicants will be asked to indicate their preferred clusters as part of the application process. While we make every effort to place participants in areas aligned with their interests, specific placements cannot be guaranteed.
Applications to the Work Experience Programme are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year.
Once you apply, your application will be placed into our screening pool. Applications are then shared with the relevant department managers.
Departments review applications as often as possible and select candidates to join them during specific periods, depending on business needs and availability.
Please note that demand for work experience placements far exceeds the availability of places. Unfortunately, we are only able to contact applicants who are successful.
You may apply once per year only. As part of the application, you will be asked to:
Each year, a new application link is created for the Work Experience Programme. If you are not successful in securing a placement in one year, you are welcome to apply again in the following year.
To be eligible for the Christie’s Work Experience Programme, applicants must:
Please note that eligibility does not guarantee placement, as availability varies by department and demand for work experience placements is extremely high.
Close date for 2026 programme: November 30th 2026
Open date for the 2027 programme: December 1st 2026
Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business. Renowned and trusted for its expert live and online auctions, as well as its bespoke private sales, Christie’s offers a full portfolio of global services to its clients, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education. Christie’s has a physical presence in 46 countries, throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, with flagship international sales hubs in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. It also is the only international auction house authorized to hold sales in mainland China (Shanghai).
Christie’s auctions span more than 80 art and luxury categories, at price points ranging from $200 to over $100 million. In recent years, Christie’s has achieved the world record price for an artwork at auction (Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvador Mundi, 2017), for a single collection sale (the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, 2018), and for a work by a living artist (Jeff Koons’ Rabbit, 2019).
Christie’s Private Sales offers a seamless service for buying and selling art, jewellery and watches outside of the auction calendar, working exclusively with Christie’s specialists at a client’s individual pace.
Recent innovations at Christie’s include the groundbreaking sale of the first NFT for a digital work of art ever offered at a major auction house (Beeple’s Everydays, March 2021), with the unprecedented acceptance of cryptocurrency as a means of payment. As an industry leader in digital innovation, Christie’s also continues to pioneer new technologies that are redefining the business of art, including the creation of viewing and bidding experiences that integrate augmented reality, global livestreaming, buy-now channels, and hybrid sales formats.
Christie’s is dedicated to advancing responsible culture throughout its business and communities worldwide, including achieving sustainability through net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
