ARTLAB

Your art website, free. A curator when you want one.

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Yours to run

Your own art website, free

A real website for your art, live in minutes. No code, no card.

  • Your works

    10 on the front page and an unlimited archive, every work on its own page.

  • One link

    Put it in your Instagram bio, your emails and every application.

  • Get found

    Listed in the Salon from one work. On Google from 3 works plus a short biography.

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The template asks for exactly what galleries, residencies and collectors look for, so you never start from a blank page.

  • Your story

    A biography and CV laid out the way galleries read them: exhibitions, awards, press, education.

  • Collectors

    Buyers write to you through a tracked form. Checkout up to €1000 coming soon.

PriceFree

for every artist

Create my free page
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From an artist who used it

Finally a space for my work

“I had the chance to create an online space where I could finally show part of my artistic path. [...] A unique opportunity for someone like me, who is not used to building websites, or does not have the means to.”
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With ArtLab I had the chance to create an online space where I could finally show part of my artistic path, one I can enrich as my work develops. A unique opportunity for someone like me, who is not used to building websites, or does not have the means to. I also find it extremely interesting to be able to talk at any time with many different voices in the art world, to be able to rely on a curator if I want, and to have a constructive dialogue about my work and my path.

ArtLab is a precious place for us emerging artists who, let's be honest, are considered "marginal" next to those who, through talent or luck, have climbed the hard-won mountain of the art system. It is a project I recommend following to anyone who wants to take their first steps in the art community, to exchange with other artists and to have a space dedicated to what they do, whatever the amount of work they produce! A project like this, in Italy, is a truly rare opportunity! Besides being able to be followed by the right people, we artists are also free to express ourselves and to exhibit without any pressure or limitation, and I find that truly interesting and useful, as well as a chance to grow and exchange.

DRDenise RaggioliPainter · SpaceSee their page

Advice, one to one

An hour with the curator

A one-hour video call with a real curator, just the two of you. Bring your questions, leave with a plan.

  • Just starting out?

    Find out what to do first, what to skip and where to show.

  • Unsure about your portfolio?

    Get your portfolio, website or social profile reviewed, honestly.

  • Stuck writing about your work?

    Write or fix the texts that present your works, together.

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  • Launching on social?

    Learn how to show your work, and talk about it, the way the art world expects.

PriceWas €50€25

Launch price, half the usual rate.

Book an hour

Pick the hour in your studio. A free account is all it takes.

Ready to send

A portfolio PDF for your open call

The curator builds the portfolio your open call asks for. You just send it.

  1. 1Talk
  2. 2Select
  3. 3Write
  4. 4Design
  5. 5Deliver
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  1. 1Talk

    One hour 1:1 on your practice and this application.

  2. 2Select

    The curator picks the works that fit this call.

  3. 3Write

    Every curatorial text written or revised. Your motivation letter is reviewed, never written: it has to be your voice.

  4. 4Design

    A clean, professional layout in the format the call asks for.

  5. 5Deliver

    Two PDFs 10 working days after the call: one for this call, one generic to reuse anywhere. One revision included.

Price€150

The hour, the texts and two PDFs.

Write first with your deadline. You pay only once the timing is agreed.

Done for you, all of it

A curator builds your whole site

You bring the work. The curator builds a site made only for you, paid once, yours for good.

  • Built for you

    A bespoke site, not a template: 10 to 15 works chosen as one story, every text written for you.

  • Delivered

    In 20 working days from the call, with one revision included.

  • Get seen

    A permanent place in the Curated by ArtLab band of the Salon, and Artist of the Week at least once a year.

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  • Discovery

    One hour with the curator, deep inside your practice.

  • Your archive

    An unlimited archive behind the site, which you keep adding to.

  • Later

    Changes at €35 each: an hour with the curator, and the edits that follow.

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Price€300

one-off

Get curated

10 spots available. The curator builds only a few Curated sites at a time. When they are gone, the waitlist opens.

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From an artist who used it

A fundamental turning point

“The site is not just a digital container: it becomes a true exhibition space. [...] This site finally lets me speak freely, without having to reduce my thought to a few lines or a caption.”
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The work done by Alice D'Alberto represents a fundamental turning point in my artistic path. Until now I had never felt the need, or perhaps had not yet found the right way, to devote a space entirely conceived for the organic, curatorial collection of my works. Thanks to her work, the site is not just a digital container: it becomes a true exhibition space, a gallery that lives in the present and gives the works back the dignity of being observed with attention, along a precise and conscious path.

What makes this project so meaningful is precisely the curatorial approach with which it was built. Every work finds its place, accompanied by the tools that have always belonged to the language of exhibitions: the title, the technique, the date it was made, the information needed to understand its context. Elements that seem simple, but are essential for the work to speak with whoever looks at it without losing its own identity.

But Alice's contribution goes beyond organising the works. The most precious part of her work is having understood that an artistic project does not end with the paintings. An artist lives inside a creative process, a search, a vision of the world that rarely finds the space to be told in full. This site finally lets me speak freely, without interruptions, without having to reduce my thought to a few lines or a caption. It becomes the bridge between the painting, the concept and the intention that generated it.

In this way the visitor does not simply stand in front of a beautiful canvas or an aesthetically pleasing image. They stand in front of a story, a precise account, a path that offers them a starting point to enter the work. The words accompany the gaze without replacing it, offering a key from which a personal meditation can arise, an experience of transcendence, an immersion in colours, forms and symbols. It is a discreet guide, never invasive, that invites the viewer to go beyond the surface of the painting to meet its deepest meaning.

For me it means being able to tell even what normally remains invisible: the spiritual path, the roots of my research, the figures I consider my artistic teachers, my godmothers, women who opened a road in mystical, spiritual and transcendent art even before these expressions found a shared definition. It means being able to show the sources of my inspiration, the references that inhabit my work and form its deepest soul.

This possibility of telling my story without mediation is perhaps the greatest gift of this project. It allows me to be truly seen, without filters, without cuts, without artifice. Just as a work of art should present itself to the eye: in its authenticity. And just as, I believe, an artist should be able to communicate: naked before art, letting the research, the thought and the works speak sincerely.

This is why I consider Alice D'Alberto's work not simply the building of a site or a curatorial arrangement, but a profoundly artistic gesture. She gave shape to a space able to hold and tell my research without overpowering it, bringing works, words and vision together in one coherent language. Her work is not only presenting my works, but creating the conditions for them to be truly encountered, understood and lived. It is a work of great sensitivity, able to give art back the time of contemplation, and to give the artist the chance to finally be heard in her entirety.

BMBenedetta ManzinoPainter · CuratedSee their page
Q&A

The fine print, without the print

The six questions every artist asks before putting their work up, answered plainly.

01

Who owns the copyright to my work?

You do, always. You keep full ownership and copyright of everything you upload. By publishing on ArtLab you give us permission to show and promote your work on the platform and our channels: the site, social, features like Artist of the Week. We never claim your work as our own, and we never sell or license it to anyone else.

02

Do I have to buy any of this?

No. Space is free for every artist and it is the whole page: your works, your archive, your biography, your link. Everything else is bought once, when you want it, and none of it unlocks anything on your page.

03

What happens to my page if I stop paying?

Nothing happens, because there is nothing to stop paying. Your Space costs nothing, and everything the curator sells is paid once: a Curated site stays yours after it is delivered, with no monthly fee behind it.

04

Can I still sell and show my work somewhere else?

Yes. ArtLab is not exclusive. Your work stays yours to sell, show and represent anywhere else at the same time.

05

What exactly do I get with the portfolio?

An hour with the curator, a selection of works made for your application, the curatorial texts written or revised by the curator, and a clean design in the format the call asks for. You get two PDFs: one for this application, and an identical one with no mention of it, to reuse elsewhere. It arrives 10 working days after the call, with one revision included. Your motivation letter is reviewed, never written: it has to be in your own voice.

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Is there a subscription?

No. Space is free, and the hour, the portfolio and Curated are each paid once. There is nothing to cancel. Work that has started is not refundable, and a paid hour counts toward a portfolio or Curated bought within 30 days: ask the curator.

Make your art impossible to ignore

You've got the work. Give it a Space to live, be seen and sell. It costs nothing to start, and nothing to keep.

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