You may hold the work
without owning it.
Keep ownership, custody, location and history connected across every physical work.
Works arrive from artists, move through exhibitions and fairs, enter collections and sometimes return years later. PYLOS keeps the record attached to the work wherever it goes.
PYL-00243
Untitled · 2026
- Artist
- Gallery
- Gallery Storage
- Consigned
PYL-00243
- Private Collection
- Gallery
- Art Fair · Basel
Ownership is not custody.
And custody is not location.
A gallery may physically hold a work without owning it. The same work can then travel to an exhibition or fair without either fact changing. PYLOS keeps each state explicit.
Private Collection
Gallery
Basel
The work moves.
The record moves with it.
One identifier follows the physical work from the studio to the institution. Consignment, exhibition, sale and loan are events in one continuous history — not new records.
PYL-00243
Artist studio
- Artist
- Artist
- Madrid
Gallery
- Artist
- Gallery
- Gallery Storage
Exhibition
- Artist
- Gallery
- Paris
Art fair
- Artist
- Gallery
- Basel
Collector
- Private Collection
- Collector
- London
Institution
- Private Collection
- Museum
- London
One gallery. Many works.
Many histories.
Every work keeps its own identity and history while belonging to one gallery archive.
PYL-00243
Oil on canvas
Unique
PYL-00244
Bronze
2 / 6
PYL-00310
Work on paper
Unique
PYL-00311
AP 1 / 2
Keep every individual
copy distinct.
A production variant is shared. Its individual physical units are not interchangeable. Each keeps its own owner, custodian, location and history.
Untitled #14
- 01 / 15
- 03 / 15
- 07 / 15
- AP 1 / 2
Built around the object.
Crates, labels, racks, verso marks and foundry marks — the record begins with the work itself, not with a spreadsheet row.
Not a CRM with
artworks attached.
PYLOS starts with the work itself — its identity, physical state and history — rather than treating artworks as records attached to a sales database.
Already have a gallery archive?
Bring it with you.
Already managing artworks in another database or spreadsheet? We're building PYLOS so structured records can move with you without rebuilding your archive from zero. During beta, we can work directly with selected galleries to understand and migrate existing archives.
Help shape PYLOS for galleries.
PYLOS is being built around the real life of physical artworks. We're looking to work closely with a small number of galleries to understand how works move between artists, storage, exhibitions, fairs and collectors.