Contxt is an applied intelligence lab
for art and culture.
We research data and discourse across institutions, themes and geographies, and distill it into citation-grounded, applied knowledge — living archives that help people map the connections between artworks, artists, movements and ideas.
Aggregate Sources
What already exists, in whatever form it exists — from a collection database of 250,000 objects to a film about a single work.
Map Knowledge
Claims about entities and objects such as exhibitions, artists, and works, each traced to a verifiable source. Where sources disagree, competing claims sit side by side.
Build Index
The agentic system that structures the knowledge — linking works, artists, and themes across time — keeps it current, and learns from every question it can't yet answer.
Design Applications
The index applied through different surfaces for different use cases, always grounded in citation-ready claims and institutional voice.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
1,681 entries, 1991–2026, verified against 1,793 cited sources.May 2026Roman Churches
1,610 churches, from early Christian basilicas to Baroque masterpieces, in Rome.May 2026New York Art Week
365 exhibitions, 667 artists, 252 venues in one conversational guide.May 2026Venice Biennale
208 exhibitions, 941 artists, 190 venues across the 61st Biennale.May 2026bitforms gallery
155 exhibitions, 168 artists, 1,279 artworks across 25 years.April 2026Knowledge is only as good as how you let people access it. Every Contxt application is grounded in the same knowledge, applied differently.
Different people need different surfaces. A visitor standing in front of a work has different needs than a researcher preparing a catalogue — but both are looking for answers grounded in the sources, not the open internet. So the same knowledge takes different forms: a page to browse, a conversation to have, a tour to listen to, an archive to query.
The Visual Archive
Every exhibition and artwork, visible at a glance: images, people, narratives and locations. The most basic application of the knowledge, built for overview and accessibility.
Contxt for Exhibitors
The workspace where institutions run the pipeline themselves. Add what you've already published — files, websites, catalogues — and our agents distill and index it. Deploy a guide that answers visitors in your voice, and learn from what they ask.
Chat & Voice Guide for Visitors
Visitors ask anything about any work — in their own language, at their own pace, in the gallery or long after. Answers cite the knowledge, never the open internet.
Research Tool for Institutions
The same knowledge turned inward: curators and staff query decades of programming while preparing the next exhibition, catalogue, or loan.
Event Guides for Cities
Knowledge at the scale of a biennale or an art week — thematic pathways, recommendations, and real-time location across hundreds of venues.
Indexes
Commissioned research on a subject worth knowing deeply — a curator's life's work, a city's churches, a biennale. We source the knowledge, build the index, and design the applications.
Talk to usContxt for Exhibitors
Unlock Contxt for your own exhibition program — from your first upload to a conversational visitor application, in under an hour.
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