How to open an art salon

You are good at painting (or maybe you are painting yourself) and decided to help poor artists earn some money by opening a salon? Leave this idea for the time being. The work of unrecognized geniuses at all times diverged poorly, especially if they ask for a price comparable to auction.

Instruction manual

1

Explore the demand for artwork in your city, in particular for painting. Calculate the approximate cost of the paintings, based not on their artistic value, but on the possibility of their subsequent sale. In addition, find out what paintings are most often ordered from artists by eminent and not very citizens.

2

Register an IP (this is enough to open an art salon), get an extract from the USRIP and Roskomstat codes. Register KKM.

3

Create a name for your salon. If you intend to devote your time and money to local authors, the name should be associated with your city. If you are going to do work to order, come up with a catchy, but not without sophistication title.

4

Find a room for your future salon. It must be located in the city center on the first floor of a historic building. In extreme cases, rent a room in a shopping center, but also on the ground floor and with a street window to demonstrate the work. The main thing is that it has compartments for the exhibition hall, office, and possibly a souvenir shop that will help you survive in difficult times of formation. Make an appropriate room design. Get all the necessary conclusions from the sanitary and fire services.

5

If you intend to carry out low-cost orders on a large format printer, buy or rent it. Do not forget about a sufficient supply of consumables. However, if the work of artists will be interesting to customers, you can also take orders for original work.

6

Conclude agreements with private entrepreneurs and handicraft factories for the supply of souvenirs. Usually, owners of art salons are well acquainted with private traders who do not want to advertise their activities in the tax office. Draw up documents for their work, as well as the work of local artists, taking their legal percentage for the services of an intermediary.

7

Hire sellers who are not only well versed in painting, but who really know how to trade. Be sure to conclude an agreement with security. After all, who knows, maybe in your gallery are the works of the second Picasso.

8

Be sure to arrange a magnificent salon opening ceremony. If you are perhaps the first sign of this type of entrepreneurship in your city, it may very well be that the mayor himself will honor this event with his presence. And there, even before profitable orders, there is a stone's throw. If you are going to be crowded in a number of similar shops, then do not skimp and spend your money wisely on advertising the salon on the Internet and on television, selecting the best works of local artists and setting prices for orders within reason.