Open-source software for artist-run culture
A place for
artist-run spaces
and the artists in them.
Run your programme. Publish your site. Find each other.
artistrun.space is built on Cocoso, free and open-source software made so artists and artist-run spaces can organise their work and find one another — across the room, and across the world.
Every artist and every space can have a page here — share your work, and see who else is around.
Get your free page →Want your own site — programme, bookings, members? Open to spaces, collectives and solo artists alike.
Get in touch →Three things, working as one
Most spaces stitch these together from three or four separate apps. Here they're one system, so they actually talk to each other.
A public website
Your programme, your pages, your press — visible to anyone, and updated automatically as you work, not as a separate chore.
A private intranet
Calendars, bookings, documents and groups — a productivity tool for collaborating with your own team, kept away from public view.
A social media
Member profiles, portfolios, direct messages, and a network of other spaces and artists — social media that answers to your community, not an algorithm.
Your own page. Your own network.
Make a profile for your practice — images, video, sound, a bit of writing about what you do. Then see who else is nearby, or across the world, doing something similar. It costs nothing, for as long as you just want a page in the network.
- A page for your work, public or private, yours to keep
- Open calls and residencies posted by member spaces
- A way for other artists and spaces to find and contact you
Want more — your own website, with its own programme, calendar and bookings? That's a subscription, open to spaces, collectives and solo artists alike.
What a space gets
The day-to-day tools — a calendar, a way to take bookings, a place for your members, and a website that updates itself as you go. Works just as well for a solo practice as it does for a whole collective.
Public Programme
Events & RSVP
Publish performances, exhibitions, workshops and concerts. People register online, and you check them in at the door. A recurring event only needs one entry, so nothing gets duplicated.
Shared Resources
Resources & Booking Calendar
List studios, rehearsal rooms, equipment and shared spaces on one live calendar. Members see what's actually free and book it themselves — no email back-and-forth, no double bookings.
Portfolio & Works
Showcase Artist Work
Every member gets a page for their own practice — images, video, sound, a few words of description. It can stay private, be shown just to the space, or be visible across the network.
Roles & Access
Members Management
Keep track of who's who — artists, teachers, organisers — and give each person the right access. Verify members, assign admins, and keep one clear directory instead of a scattered contact list.
Ongoing Work
Groups & Processes
For work that unfolds over time — a residency, a study circle, an ensemble, a working group. Each one gets its own space: its own members, a document library, group chat, meetings and events, all on one page.
Private Communication
Encrypted One-to-One Messaging
Message another member directly, one to one, without it living in a public feed or a third-party app. It's encrypted, and it stays between the two of you.
Reaching People
Email Newsletters
Write an update, pull in your upcoming events automatically, and send it to whoever's subscribed. No separate mailing tool, and nothing new to learn.
Your Website
Website & Composable Pages
Build an about page, a manifesto, a press page — anything — by dragging blocks into place. No developer needed, and each new page joins your navigation on its own.
What's next
Still being built — not part of the platform yet, but on the way.
Blog
Longer posts and updates, published straight to your public site.
Feed
A shared activity stream across the network, so you can see what other members are up to.
Native app
For people who'd rather check in from their phone than open a browser.
One space. A whole world of them.
Every member gets a page that others on the network can find — so a residency in Istanbul can find a printmaking studio in Glasgow, a choreographer touring Europe can find a floor to rehearse on in São Paulo, and an open call reaches further than one mailing list. Here's an illustration of what that web of connections could look like.
Hover or tap a point to see who's on it. Every dot could be your space.
Read more about the networkThis is what the work actually looks like.
A dance-and-painting retreat — the kind of gathering artist-run spaces host all the time, and exactly what this software exists to support.
Free, open-source software
Cocoso started inside a real artist-run dance theatre and co-learning space in Gothenburg — built by people who needed it themselves, to run a shared calendar, member portfolios, resource bookings and a public programme without stitching together five different tools.
It has grown since, through other collectives, alternative schools and cooperatives choosing to use it too — and it has stayed free and open-source. The code is public, nothing is tracked or sold, and any space could self-host it if they wanted to.
artistrun.space is the hosted version, and the network layer, built specifically so artist-run spaces and artists can find each other.
Read more about Cocoso, and why this exists →
Real humans, on your side.
If your space signs up, you get access to a support team who genuinely understand what it means to run an artist-led space. We help you set up and configure things, and we keep our own workload light on purpose, so the support we give stays real.
We usually get back within a day or two · happy to hop on a call if that's easier
Get in touchContribution Model
Joining the network is always free. This covers a full website of your own — a space, a collective, or a solo artist with a growing practice — priced to cover real costs, not to maximise profit.
Crafts-person
For a solo artist or a single small space
- Unlimited public events
- Resources & booking calendar
- Website & composable pages
- Groups & processes
- Network profile & discovery
- Encrypted messaging
- Email newsletters
- 5 verified users
- 2 admin users
Art-space
For artist-run spaces with a regular programme
- Unlimited public events
- Resources & booking calendar
- Website & composable pages
- Groups & processes
- Network profile & discovery
- Encrypted messaging
- Email newsletters
- 15 verified users
- 3 admin users
Collective
For collectives and active cultural organisations
- Unlimited public events
- Resources & booking calendar
- Website & composable pages
- Groups & processes
- Network profile & discovery
- Encrypted messaging
- Email newsletters
- 50 verified users
- 5 admin users
Village
For festivals, residencies or cultural centres
- Unlimited public events
- Resources & booking calendar
- Website & composable pages
- Groups & processes
- Network profile & discovery
- Encrypted messaging
- Email newsletters
- 100 verified users
- 10 admin users
Custom
For large institutions, federations or special requirements
- Unlimited public events
- Resources & booking calendar
- Website & composable pages
- Groups & processes
- Network profile & discovery
- Encrypted messaging
- Email newsletters
- Custom verified users
- Custom admin users
Two ways in
Neither one requires talking to a salesperson first.