FAQ for artists

It's important that the artists provide comprehensive information about themselves and their art so that the buyers can easily make purchasing decisions. The buyers prefer finding out how the artist is as a person and where he or she gets the inspiration from. Education and exhibitions can be listed throught the CV form. On artwork pages, plenty of practical information should be included, for example if a painting is done on a canvas or a panel. Conserning sculptures, materials and qualities of the artworks are worth of describing in a detailed way. In all works that are meant to hang on a wall, the artist should tell if they are ready to hang and framed.

The maximum width + lenght of an artwork is 360 cm. The maximum weight is 35 kilos.

Professional artists who have an address in Finland can sell their artwork on Taiko. All artists are evaluated before they can put their artwork for sale. Artists who are members in the Register of the Artists Association of Finland or another association (Finnish Painters Union, The Association of Finnish Printmakers, Association of Finnish Sculptors, Artists Association MUU, Union of Finnish Art Associations (sub-organization), Photographic Artists Association) are approved without a curator evaluation. Other artists are evaluated by Taiko's curator based on for example education, exhibitions and grants. In addition to this, all the necessary information has to be submitted in the profile.

Currently, you can sell paintings, graphic prints, photoart and sculptures on Taiko. Transportation limitations set certain limits for the artwork size.

Joining Taiko and presenting artwork is free of charge. For every sold artwork, Taiko charges a commission of 30-40 percent depending on the purchasing channel (platform or b2b) and delivery country.

Taiko is the world's largest marketplace for Finnish contemporary art. Throigh Taiko, an artist reaches easily a huge amount of customers internationally. Presenting artworks on Taiko is easy and free of charge, and Taiko's commision is charged from sold works. Payments, shipping, delivery insurance and contacts to the buyers are taken care of by Taiko.

Taiko currently covers paintings, graphic prints, sculptures and photoart. If your field is not represented, please contact Taiko.

Choose the sign up button to register as an artist. Submit the required information and press the activation link sent to your email. Then, you are ready to log in and complete your profile. When you're all set and you have at least 3 artworks uploaded, the Send for evaluation button activates and you can send your profile for the curator evaluation. The evaluation lasts a few days.

Have you checked the spam folder? If the email is not there either you can try getting the link sent once more. If that doesn't help, please contact us:

support@taiko.fi or +358 44 231 5269

Did you remember to send your profile for evaluation by clicking the Send to evaluation button?

The profiles are evaluated in the order the artists have submitted them. The artist gets an email notifying about the result.

Log in to your profile, choose the My artwork tab and click the brush icon. You can only add one artwork at the time since every artwork's information needs to be defined separately. Yuo can add three extra images of the same artwork, for instance a sculpture frm different angles, of an artwork hanging on the wall, of the frame or a painting's edges. The extra images may be crucial for making the purchase decision.

When an artist has been approved to Taiko, they can have up to 50 artworks for sale. The artist can add artworks freely without Taiko's approval. However, Taiko's team constantly supervises the quality of art and artwork images.

Up to 50.

We need to for example avoid situations where a bought artwork appears to be sold already elsewhere. The reasonable lockup-period gives the artist a possibility to plan exhibitions.

Artwork that is for sale on Taiko needs to be unique. Graphic prints and photoart that belong to a series are considered unique if they have a serial number. For example one artwork from a series can be for sale on Taiko and the others elsewhere.

A good light and a camera stand or a firm hand are needed when taking good quality pictures. If the artwork is framed, the frame needs to be cropped off from the picture. Sculptures should be placed against a solid background on in an environment that is suitable for the sculpture's theme.

The minimum image size is 1200 x 1500 pixels. It should be saved in JPEG or PNG format. The maximum size is 5 MB.

There is no image editing tool on Taiko. Thus, you need to crop the artwork images before uploading them to your profile.

When uploading an image, you can crop it in a square format that is shown on certain places on the site. When a buyer clicks the picture, they get to see it as it was uploaded.

The latest added or edited artwork is always the first on the page. You can change the order of the works by opening the artwork for editing and then saving it when it moves to the beginning of the page.

The artwork description can include information such as the origin of the idea and about the creation process. On artwork pages, plenty of practical information should be included, for example if a painting is done on a canvas or a panel. Conserning sculptures, materials and qualities of the artworks are worth of describing in a detailed way. In all works that are meant to hang on a wall, the artist should tell if they are ready to hang and framed.

Artwork that is for sale on Taiko can't be for sale elsewhere. In case an artwork that is for sale on Taiko is sold elsewhere, Taiko invoices its commision from the artist.

The artwork weight has to be estimated due to the transport limitations. The maximum weight is 35 kg. An estimated weight is enough.

The artist can freely price set their artwork. However, the maximum price of the artwork is 8000 euros. The price visible to the buyer always includes VAT. The artist can change the prices freely.

You can't upload a picture if the quality is not good enough. Make sure that the image meets the minimum requirements.

When logged in, you can edit your artwork information and visibility under My artwork. You can choose to make the artwork visible for the buyers right away or save it and continue editing it later. Removing or hiding artworks goes through Taiko. Please contact us by phone or email in case you want artworks to be removed/hidden.

If the Taiko team finds out that there are inappropriate or bad quality pictures in an artist's profile, Taiko will contact the artist. Racist artwork or artwork that fulfill criminal characteristics will be removed without advance warning.

You can't edit the link of your Taiko page. In certain cases, Taiko can change the link upon request.

Sign in and press the small pen image on the top right corner of the picture.

In the artist description, you can tell about yourself and your background. You can for example mention what inspires you as an artist.

Artists are not allowed to add links to external websites.

Log in to your profile and click Change password button. In case you forgot your password, you can reset it by pressing the login link on the frontpage.

You can edit your contact information in the profile. Email address is not editable. If you wish to change your email address, please contact Taiko.

If you wish to delete your profile, please contact Taiko, info@taiko.fi.

You get an email notification after your artwork has been sold. After that you agree with Taiko about shipping the artwork.

The artist is responsible for the packaging of a sold artwork for transportation in accordance with the instructions fond in the artist's profile.