Digital platforms for culture
B&BY is a boutique digital studio specialising in enterprise-grade web platforms for artists, cultural institutions, and contemporary art organisations.
From architecture to deployment, we handle the full digital lifecycle so institutions can focus on their work.
Live examples of what B&BY delivers for the cultural field — from biennale production offices to international residency networks and curatorial archives.
A full-cycle production platform for a tri-city contemporary art biennale operating across Montréal, Brussels, and Tallinn. The system manages the open call workflow — from artist submissions and jury deliberation to programme publication and press accreditation — alongside a permanent archive of all prior editions. Built for a secretariat of six with public-facing multilingual programming.
Inquire about this platform →A bilingual application and programme management platform for an international artist residency network operating across four countries. The site handles rolling open calls, cohort documentation, alumni publishing, and a knowledge production archive. Integrated with an editorial CMS so resident artists can publish process work independently. Long-term hosting with custom subdomain management per location.
Inquire about this platform →A long-form archival and programming platform for a curatorial collective working at the intersection of institutional critique, performance, and knowledge production. The site documents a decade of conference-based artistic practice, organises monographic publications, and hosts a bilingual critical archive. Built with a post-Duchampian editorial logic — clean, austere, and rigorous. Designed to outlast trends and operate on a 10-year hosting horizon.
Inquire about this platform →We don't deliver and disappear. We build platforms designed to evolve alongside the artists and institutions we work with.
B&BY is a Montreal-based digital platform studio founded to serve one specific need: giving artists and cultural organisations the same quality of digital infrastructure that enterprise clients take for granted.
We believe great cultural work deserves great digital presence. Too often, artists and institutions settle for generic templates or platforms that don't reflect the depth of their practice. B&BY was created to close that gap — offering enterprise-grade strategy, design, and development specifically calibrated to the cultural sector.
Our clients range from solo artists who need a durable professional platform to biennale production offices running open calls, jury portals, and international press accreditation. We also work with residency networks, curatorial collectives, and artist-run centres operating across multiple countries and languages.
We manage full technical infrastructure: domain registration, DNS configuration, SSL certificates, hosting environments, and ongoing maintenance. Every platform we build is treated as a long-term asset — with a hosting and support horizon measured in years, not months.
Whether you're a solo artist needing a first professional platform, a biennale office managing open calls and jury workflows, or a residency network operating across countries — we'd like to hear from you.
We take on a small number of new clients each year to ensure the quality and continuity of our partnerships.