Est. 2026 · Our Story
Somewhere along the way,art stopped being made.
It got generated. Printed ten thousand times. Drop-shipped from a warehouse that has never smelled turpentine. The word “handmade” started appearing on things no hand had touched.
Artaver exists because that is worth fighting about.
What we're for
A marketplace that takes the maker's side.
Most marketplaces are neutral by design. They take a cut, keep the lights on, and let the catalogue sort itself out. Neutrality sounds fair until you notice who it favours: whoever can produce the most, the fastest, for the least.
That is not a contest a person with a brush can win, and it was never meant to be one.
So Artaver isn't neutral. Every rule here is written in favour of the person who actually made the thing.
One rule governs everything: every work is made by human hands. No prints, no reproductions, no generated images. From that single line everything else follows — how listings work, how money moves, who gets paid, and what happens years later when a painting changes hands for a hundred times what the artist was paid.
How the rule becomes real
Four things you will not find anywhere else.
Where this is going
The goal isn't to be the biggest.
There are already marketplaces with a hundred million listings. Nobody needs another. What nobody has built is a place where being an artist is economically survivable — where the work carries its history with it, where a sale isn't the last time you benefit from something you made, and where a buyer can know with certainty that a human made the thing they are looking at.
We measure success in artists who can keep working. In collectors who learn the name of the person who made the piece on their wall. In a mosaic that grows, one sale at a time, until it is a picture of everything this community has made together.
A note from the founder
A promise that only holds when everyone behaves isn't a promise. That is why Artaver's are written into the code rather than into a policy page — royalties split at the moment of payment, provenance nobody can edit, a work that can never return to a previous owner.
My vision is simple: a place where being an artist is survivable. Where the person who made the thing is the person the whole system is built around. Where “handmade” still means a human made it — and you can prove it.
— Gemechu Schneegans, Founder
“Art with a hand behind it. Nothing else.”