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Contxt is an intelligence lab for art and culture. We distill discourse across institutions, themes and geographies. We make it legible to humans and machines, and help our clients map connections between artworks, artists, movements and ideas.

Selected Projects

Contxt Venice

Geo-Intelligence for VeniceOpen Contxt Venice ↗

Contxt Venice spans more than 900 artists and 190+ exhibitions across Venice during La Biennale di Venezia 2026 and its collateral programs. Design your own Biennale journey by themes, ideas, and real-time location. Follow ideas as they emerge across pavilions, institutions, and collateral shows to uncover pathways that reflect your own thematic interests. Or start with our partner FITZ & CO's curated selection.

"Contxt Venice feels less like a guidebook and more like a new curatorial tool — one that could fundamentally change how large-scale art events are experienced."— Fad Magazine ↗

Public Research Preview

Conversational Intelligence spanning 25 years of bitforms gallery exhibition historyOpen Public Research Preview ↗

With Contxt bitforms, we are making every exhibition, every artwork, every piece of context that the gallery has built over 25 years accessible through our conversational AI experience. Pick any show, ask about an artist's practice or individual artworks and trace how themes evolved across decades of programming.

News
May 1, 2026Announcement
Contxt and FITZ & CO launch geo-intelligence for VeniceConnecting more than 190 exhibitions across the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia through ideas, thematic pathways, and a FITZ-curated selection.
Read full press release →Open Contxt Venice ↗

Venice, May 1, 2026 — FITZ & CO and Contxt announce the launch of Contxt Venice, a conversational intelligence layer spanning more than 900 artists showing and over 190 exhibitions taking place as part of and alongside the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2026. Designed as a mobile-optimized, browser-based experience, Contxt Venice allows visitors to seamlessly design their own Biennale journey based on themes, ideas, and real-time location, no downloads required.

April 21, 2026Press
Contxt in Observer: Building a Chatbot for the Art WorldChrista Terry interviewed our co-founder Lukas Amacher for Observer's Arts section about why every artwork deserves a conversation, and what it looks like when curatorial insight becomes available to every visitor in real time.
Read the interview on Observer ↗

"People in exhibitions often have questions about what they're seeing but don't have access to curatorial insight or background knowledge in real time," Lukas told Observer. "With Contxt, visitors can ask questions about an artwork and get answers sourced directly from the institution's knowledge base rather than generic internet results."

April 9, 2026Announcement
Introducing the Public Research Preview in collaboration with bitformsTogether with bitforms gallery, we are making 25 years of exhibitions accessible through conversational AI.
Experience Contxt at bitforms ↗

Today we are launching the Public Research Preview for Contxt in collaboration with bitforms. We are very excited to partner with a gallery that has spent a quarter of a century championing digital art and new media. Together, we are making every exhibition, every artwork, every piece of context that the gallery has built over 25 years accessible through our conversational AI experience.

For those of you in New York, walk into bitforms and snap a picture of one of Maya Man's artworks. Contxt will recognize it and help you dive deep into the back story of the piece, the exhibition and Maya Man's practice. You can ask questions through chat and voice and archive the work that you've discussed in your personal profile, creating a persistent record of the artworks you've interacted with.

For those of you who are not in New York, Contxt offers you an easy way to interact with the exhibition's ideas from wherever you are. The full bitforms archive, all 150+ exhibitions spanning 25 years, is available online. Pick any show, ask about an artist's practice, trace how themes evolved across decades of programming. You can start with StarPower and end up in a conversation about a show from 2003. Every artwork you explore gets saved to your personal profile, so your journey through the archive builds over time.

Art has always needed more context than a wall label can provide. Contxt solves this by introducing a layer of knowledge that is ever present but only visible when you need it.

When Steven Sacks opened bitforms in 2001, the idea of a gallery dedicated entirely to art of the digital age was radical. Twenty-five years later, the archive that decision created is extraordinary. Contxt's first public outing is our way of honoring that work and inviting everyone to deepen the conversation about countless artists, artworks and ideas.

This is a research preview. It's an early, real version of Contxt that we want you to experience for yourself. It's still evolving, and we would love to learn from you how we can make it better. If something surprises, delights, or falls short for you, we want to hear it. Our DMs are open or email us [email protected].