What is Artium?
Artium is an art inventory for visual artists — what software people call a CRM. One tool holding your catalogue of works, your collectors, your sales, your exhibitions and the documents that come out of all of it.
It is built for the artist working alone, the one whose work currently lives in three places at once (a notebook, a spreadsheet and the phone's camera roll), none of them agreeing with the other two.
What is inside?
A catalogue of works. Title, medium, dimensions, price and status, with the image and the record of every piece. Unique works and limited editions (photography, printmaking, screenprinting) with their edition size and artist's proofs.
Clients and collectors. Contacts, galleries and curators, each with their purchase history.
Sales. Pending, reserved, paid or cancelled. Only what is paid counts towards your totals, so the number you see is the money you actually received.
Exhibitions. Which work went to which show, and the wall labels ready to print as a PDF.
Documents. Certificates of authenticity, tech sheets, receipts, portfolio and CV, with your details already filled in.
Three languages, several currencies. English, Spanish and German. Euro, US dollar and Argentine peso, with no invented conversions along the way.
What problem does it solve?
An artist's inventory rarely collapses for lack of tools. It collapses because the information lives in pieces: dimensions in a notebook, prices in an old spreadsheet, a collector's details buried in a message thread between photos.
While the work still fits in your head, that holds. The trouble starts the day a gallery asks for a list, or someone enquires about a piece from four years ago, or a certificate has to be issued and nobody can say which edition number was signed.
Artium puts those three columns into one, and every document comes out of the same data: if the record is right, the certificate, the wall label and the portfolio are right.
What does it cost?
The free plan holds 100 works, 100 clients and 250 MB of images, whichever ceiling you reach first. It does not expire and it does not ask for a card.
Premium is 6 € a month (or 60 € a year) and lifts the ceilings: unlimited works and clients, 5 GB of storage, your logo and signature on documents and labels, a profile QR generator and priority support.
Can it be used on a phone?
Yes, and that is where most of it happens: the photo of the finished piece is taken right there.
Artium installs onto your home screen like any other app, without going through a store. Inside the app, the "Install the app" button sits in the menu next to the guides and support; in Chrome it opens the system dialogue, and on an iPhone you do it from Share, "Add to Home Screen".
You get its own icon and a full screen, with no browser bar around it. One caveat: it still needs a connection, because your works live in your account and not on the phone.
Why does it exist?
It came out of a studio table covered in paper: notebooks with measurements, spreadsheets with prices that had aged, collectors' details lost in a thread of photos.
Artium is the tool we wanted to have. Simple, good-looking and honest: no features you will never open, and no artificial limits on your own catalogue.
Since the platform we wanted did not exist, we built it. It is made by artists for artists, and we understand the studio because we live in one.
Where do I start?
With the inventory, which is the base for everything else. The art inventory guide covers how to number pieces and how to catch up if you have hundreds unrecorded, with or without Artium.
After that, once the data is in, the rest almost writes itself: the certificate of authenticity, the wall labels for the next show, the portfolio and the CV.
Starting is free and takes less time than reading this took: create an account. Add one work, whichever is closest to hand, and look at how its record turns out. If that first record convinces you, the rest of the catalogue tends to fill itself in.