Arkhouse
Arkhouse Gallery
Contemporary Art & Digital Provenance
Visionary
Visionary Artists, Visionary Collectors.
Art with a Living Digital Identity
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Art Deserves to Endure
Arkhouse embeds a lasting digital record into artworks – safeguarding authorship, exhibition history, and provenance alongside the work itself.
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As the internet and digital landscape evolves, the story of an artwork should remain visible, traceable, and verifiable.
At Arkhouse, the artwork and its archive remain connected, allowing its identity to endure beyond the lifespan of any single website or platform.
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02.
Provenance is Fragile
Make it Permanent
For centuries an artwork's story lived in catalogues, gallery archives, and institutional records.
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Today, much of that documentation exists online: on websites, in cloud storage, hard drives and within private databases that may change or disappear over time.
Broken links, lost files, and shifting platforms can erode the record that gives an artwork its context.
Arkhouse was created to explore how that record can be preserved more securely for the future.​
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A New Age of Art Authenticity
New technologies allow artworks to carry a persistent digital identity.
Rather than relying on a single platform or archive, key documentation can remain accessible across distributed systems designed for long-term preservation.
This archive may include:
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Certificates of Authenticity & Provenance Records
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Exhibition History & Critical Essays
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Artist Statements & Process Documentation
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High-Resolution Image Files
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Video Content
Together, these materials create a living record that travels with the artwork, helping collectors, institutions, and future audiences understand its origin and history.
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Our Vision
Context That Can't Be Lost
Artworks carry meaning through their ideas, history, and creative process. Arkhouse helps preserve these materials as part of a lasting digital archive connected to the work.
Seamless Chain of Custody
Documentation, images or videos linked to a piece can remain accessible as the artwork moves between collectors, exhibitions, and institutions.
Through The Looking Glass
That's Where We'll Take You.
