Why a catalogue raisonné

A catalogue raisonné is the complete, annotated record of an artist’s work. Museums spend decades making them, usually after the artist has gone.

Artists working today scatter the record as they go: works across chains and marketplaces, shows on old websites, press in a folder, collectors in a spreadsheet. The work is real; the record is not kept anywhere.

Raisonné keeps it from the first day. Every series and work, with the on-chain evidence for each attribution beside it; the exhibitions, awards, press and talks around them; the shop and the people who collect you.

The first catalogue was its founder’s: 3,915 works, 29 series and 46 exhibitions, from the Venice Biennale in 2019 to a collateral event of the 2026 Biennale.

Around the record sit the tools that keep a practice going: a collector CRM, a shop on your own Stripe, books made from your works, posts and letters written from the catalogue.

The default app is open source and MIT licensed. One artist per site, never a shared database. You can read it, run it, and keep it.

The folder is open. Start anywhere.