About Artivive

The Augmented Reality Platform For Creatives

Artivive was founded by Sergiu Ardelean and Codin Popescu in January 2017 in Vienna, Austria. We’ve built a highly motivated and creative team of professionals and senior developers to help us become the augmented reality solution for artists and creatives.

"Our vision is to change how art is created and consumed and to build the community around augmented reality art"

Artivive is an AR tool that allows artists to create new dimensions of art by linking classical with digital art. The digital layer opens doors to a whole new world of possibilities. Artists can take visitors on a journey through time, explain what lies underneath, enhance the art with animations, or show how the artworks were made. Over 600.000 creatives worldwide are creating artworks with Artivive across 190 countries. For museums, exhibitions, galleries, and other art institutions Artivive offers a new and innovative way for the audience to interact with exhibitions. Visitors only have to use their smartphones or tablets in order to experience the layer of augmented reality. Please check our case studies to see our collaborations from around the world on YouTube.

We work with museums, galleries, festivals, and designers to present tailored solutions to individual problems. For them, Artivive provides a reliable, fast, and scalable infrastructure for the best experience for their visitors, prolonging visitation time, thus increasing emotional bonding. In addition, Artivive creates digital content, organizes workshops, and proposes artists for collaborations. For the Albertina Museum in Vienna, we created the digital content for the exhibition “Film Stills” and integrated AR experiences to the permanent collection “Monet to Picasso – The Batliner Collection”.Together with Belvedere Museum in Vienna, we implemented AR experiences to their exhibitions (watch the videos here and here).

In 2018, Artivive also partnered up with viennacontemporary and mumok, Museum of Modern Art, for the special program LIVING IMAGE during viennacontemporary international art fair 2018 (watch the video here). In 2019, Artivive was used by the Bayerische Staatsoper to bring augmented reality experiences to their season program (check it out here) and the festival promotions for the Take Festival for Independent Fashion and Arts. In 2019 Artivive was used in the exhibition “100 Best Posters 18 – Germany Austria Switzerland” at the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna. At an international level, we work with venues such as the Shanghai Himalayas Museum, the Ying Art Center in Shanghai, MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, and the Leica Gallery in Singapore.

Use cases

From museum exhibitions, to murals, book illustrations, Selfie Walls and brand merchandise.

T-Rex AR Mural By Nychos

Turn your street art into dynamic, interactive experiences that engage, educate, and connect with global audiences. This creates a totally new **kind of narrative** which brings an interactive experience to the viewers and **changes the way we see street art.**

AR Meets Fashion

Experiment with your clothing designs and bring your fashion items to life with Artivive. Adding augmented reality to your designs brings new forms of expression, and transforms the way we experience wearable art.

Season Preview Book By Scorpion Dagger

Bring your illustrations to life and tell your story in a more captivating and interesting way: augmented reality is the new way of storytelling! AR in books have become a new way to experience a story and share your creations.

Augmented Reality brings Film-Stills to life in Albertina Museum

In a unique collaboration with the Albertina Museum 2017, Artivive brought classic film stills to life through Augmented Reality. Using the Artivive App, visitors could unlock dynamic film scenes featuring legends like Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, and Charlie Chaplin. The exhibition offered an immersive experience where static images transformed into moving moments from cinematic history, blending nostalgia with cutting-edge AR technology.

MIT Borderline Mural Project

During the 2017 spring semester a group of students organized "Tunnel Vision" to design and paint interactive murals covering a 200-ft long stretch of wall in the tunnel system located unter the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of the Arts London Exhibition

Arts Students' Union created the n[ar]ratives exhibition in collaboration with Artivive. The exhibition combined stunning art from UAL's six colleges with augmented reality software: from a Rider-Waite tartot card deck to undulating tentacles.

Angewandte Festival Vienna

At the Angewandte Festival 2019 by the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, many augmented artworks from our community artists came to life.

"It’s amazing how easy augmented reality works"

STELLA ROLLIG

Director, Belvedere Vienna

"We have been creating digital art for over three decades. With Artivive, we recently found a perfect tool to add another dimension to our work"

STATION ROSE

Digital Artists

"Artivive will replace the audioguides at museums"

PROF. DR. KLAUS ALBRECHT SCHRÖDER

Director, Albertina Vienna

"As an artist I work at the interface between the still and the moving image. Artivive perfectly translates this combination of media and brings my art to full expression"

SISSA MICHELI

Visual Artist & Photographer

"Finally, I found the right tool to express my art, which is a mix of digital and analog art"

LITTO DANIELA

New Media Artist

"Artivive is an amazing possibility for artists to combine more than one representational level and a completely new way of integrating media art in the collections of our customers"