Charis An exhibition space that never closes, for contemporary art and fine craft
Rent an online exhibition room at a price an independent artist can actually afford. Let AI shape the story behind each piece, and let collectors find you by colour and mood — not just by name.
No setup fee · Cancel any month · 3–5% commission only when you sell
Find art by what
people actually remember — colour
Most collectors cannot recall an artist's name, but they know they want “something deep indigo for the bedroom wall.” Charis extracts the palette and mood of every piece with Azure AI Vision, then searches by vector similarity.
Nothing matches that search — try one of the palettes above instead.
Three barriers that keep good work from reaching buyers
Exhibition space costs too much
One gallery rental or physical fair booth can consume an independent artist's entire annual budget — and the work hangs for only a few days.
An online exhibition room open 24 hours a day. Choose your own scale and rental period, starting at the price of a few cups of coffee a month.
Strong work, no story to carry it
Many artists and makers produce excellent work but lack the writing craft to frame the concept, the context, and the description that makes someone stop and read.
Azure OpenAI synthesises inspiration, materials and technique into professional copy — and translates it into several languages in one click.
Only findable if they already know you
Text-only search forces the buyer to already know an artist's name or the specialist vocabulary. Everyone else never finds you at all.
Every work becomes an embedding alongside its colour palette, stored in PostgreSQL with pgvector — searchable by reference image, palette or mood.
Upload the photograph, let the curator write
Upload an image once and Charis extracts the palette, reads the mood, sets the tags, and drafts a description for you to edit — in under a minute.
Multilingual descriptions in one click
Thai, English, Chinese, Japanese — open your work to international collectors without hiring a translator.
Catalogue PDF & Virtual Lookbook
Generate an exhibition catalogue ready to send to a gallery or a collector, straight from the works in your booth.
Automatic content moderation
Azure AI Content Safety screens images and text, keeping the exhibition space safe for everyone.
Choose the room that fits your work
Pay monthly or quarterly, move up or down at any time, no long-term contract.
- Show up to 6 works
- Full artist profile page
- 10 AI descriptions per month
- Included in palette search
- Show up to 30 works
- Private exhibition room and subdomain
- Unlimited AI descriptions + 4 languages
- Catalogue PDF and Lookbook
- Visitor and per-work interest analytics
- Unlimited works
- Three rotating exhibitions at once
- Curatorial support from the Charis team
- Front page and newsletter placement
Every plan carries a 3–5% success fee, charged only when a sale completes on the platform. If you don't sell, we don't charge.
Three months from here to opening night
Foundation & MVP
Database schema on Azure PostgreSQL, upload pipeline to Blob Storage, artist profile pages and the gallery feed.
FoundationAI & the rental system
Azure OpenAI Storyteller, colour palette search through pgvector, booth booking and payments.
IntelligencePublic launch
Deploy to Azure Container Apps, open charisgallery.com behind the CDN, and submit the depa funding application.
Public LaunchCharis
Greek — meaning grace, a gift freely given, and refined beauty. Your work deserves a room where it can be seen.