About
Vintage prints, lifetime and posthumous prints, editions, negatives, estates — no medium asks more of a record. Solve it for photography, and it works for every work of art.
COLLEKTON launches at Paris Photo · 12–15 November 2026
COLLEKTON is where you register works, organise exhibitions and work with galleries, artists, collektors and institutions on the same source record for every work.
Why it works
The artist is the first fact attached to the work. Not a name typed three ways into three systems.
Made, produced, changed hands. Dates drift unless someone records them while they are still known.
Every exhibition, every loan, every wall. A work’s history belongs to the work.
Number, size, technique, signature. The details that make this work this work and no other.
1 question answered by the relevant experts, available to everyone.
Team
Built by people who know the art world from the inside.
Great-grandson of August Sander, second-generation gallerist and fourth-generation art dealer and photographer. He grew up in the trade and has worked in it professionally since 2009 — and has been a programmer since childhood. More than ten years ago, unhappy with the software available to galleries, he began building his own. Galerie Julian Sander in Cologne has been the live pilot ever since.
Lens-based artist and co-founder of MONTANA CANS, Ruediger has spent his career building a brand from scratch. He came to Julian with an idea for a database for artists. A gallerist and an artist — two sides of the market — decided to build something far bigger.
A platform developed by an internationally renowned gallerist and an established artist and businessman over a period of more than 10 years.
