Professional Practice Platform for Artists

Structure the work behind the work.

One system for your studio archive, career record, and public website — on hosting you control. Upload to your server, run the installer, and manage everything from a single admin workspace.

From practice to publication. Track your work as connected records, then publish a coherent public site automatically.

Self-hosted on standard shared hosting
Modular career, work, CV, teaching, and media structure
Public site + admin workspace from one system

What Opero Is

A system for the work, the record, and the public-facing site.

Opero is designed to manage the parts of an artist's career that are usually spread across static pages, PDFs, folders, and one-off updates.

Instead of treating a website like a set of disconnected pages, it structures practice as a system. Works, series, CV records, writing, teaching, media, and site settings are organized together so they support both administration and public presentation.

This is not a generic CMS adapted for artists. It is built around how artistic work and professional records actually develop.

How It Works

Four steps to a working practice platform.

Upload

Upload the Opero folder via FTP or your host file manager.
Install

Run the guided installer and configure your modules.
Edit

Customize public pages and visual style with Armature tokens.
Manage

Maintain works, exhibitions, CV, statements, and media in one admin.

Platform Modules

Built around real professional practice.

Work

Manage series and individual works with media, dimensions, and pricing.

CV

Track exhibitions, publications, grants, residencies, and custom sections.

Statements

Maintain bios and statement variants with clear editorial control.

Teaching

Organize courses, syllabi, and educational materials in one place.

Media

Link press, downloads, and supporting assets to your record.

Public Site

Publish a coherent front-end from your structured practice data.

Built For

Designed for practices at every stage.

Visual Artists

Painters, sculptors, photographers, and installation artists needing a structured archive.

Studio Managers

Teams maintaining records, exhibitions, and public updates with less manual overhead.

Emerging to Established

Start simple and enable modules as your practice grows without restructuring.

How It Is Different

Not a portfolio template. Not a generic CMS.

Generic CMS / Portfolio Builder

Your exhibition history is a blog post or a text block.
CV edits mean manual page rewrites or replacing PDFs.
Works are galleries without structured metadata.
Growth creates duplicated, out-of-sync content.

Opero

Exhibitions, works, and press are connected records.
CV entries are structured and queryable, not static text.
Work records include dimensions, pricing, medium, and series links.
Modules expand without restructuring existing content.

Opero treats your practice as interconnected data, not a collection of disconnected pages. That means less rework as your career grows, and a site that stays accurate without constant manual maintenance.

Armature Design System

Powered by the Armature UI Engine.

Opero is not just PHP. It ships with a native design system built directly into the repository, including zero-dependency Javascript behaviors, progressive blur-up image loading, cinematic lightboxes, and interlocking masonry layouts.

Read the Armature Docs

Demo

Explore a working Opero installation.

The demo is seeded with a complete artist archive — five series, 25+ works across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, exhibition history with linked works, and press coverage.

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