There is nothing more frustrating than spending your company’s revenue on Ikea Art only to discover it makes your company look unprofessional. Most horrifying, it does not even fit the design of your workspace. So, how do you select art? Art that speaks to your culture and represents your brand. How do you even find it? If you are considering getting art for your workspace, here are four tips you should keep in mind.

Here, ArtKoti shares the benefits of art for people at your company and guests visiting your office, such as customers, along with tips for selecting bespoke art. As well as improving employee performance, mood, and overall well-being, art in the workplace also facilitates and enhances business relationships.

Artists are not isolated from the rest of humanity, so stress from outside seeps into their studios, negatively affecting the process of creating art and its enjoyment. The role of artists is to create art that captures experiences, evokes emotions, documents events, and initiates conversations in their communities, among other things. Creating art helps them process their experiences, express themselves, and understand their world. Those around them also influence them. Most artists started their creative careers because they found enjoyment and satisfaction in making things with their hands. Sadly, as time passes, the stresses of everyday life can stifle their creativity and joy. As artists become more aware of their artwork, they can become more concerned with money, stress, production, timelines, and more. In other words, current events may make it difficult for them to get into a creative flow. When art careers or outside influences stress artists, how do they find joy in their work? Or, to put it another way, how do they keep creating when the world feels heavy?

It has been just over a year of ArtKoti’s official existence, plus about a year of preparations before facing the first customer. What do we mean by “preparations”? We mostly did research and talked to people: artists, regular workers in different fields, entrepreneurs, officials, gallerists, architects, academics. From the idea of wanting to bring visual art to places where people can effortlessly encounter it, we realized that, since people spend a lot of their time at work, that’s where art should be.

Who are we? Let us tell you who is behind the scenes and how the story of ArtKoti started. We are five millennials, students, graduates, entrepreneurs – we are all different and that is what makes our team so dynamic. What unites us is that we are conscious of the future of our society and are passionate about art. Nadja and Sussy come from different parts of the world and happened to be in Finland, where they both found their homes. Here the two bright minds met and when Nadja suggested that there could be a way to make visual art more accessible and tackle inequalities in the art ecosystem, Sussy knew she wanted to be part of it.