Equipment
Cameras, projectors, tools, lighting, sound, 3D printers, assembly materials and exhibition equipment, to borrow or swap.
Building the Vienna pilot now
Creatives and people creating culture:this is your place to exchange. Your network. Your community.
Peermute is the home of Vienna's creative and cultural community. Artists, designers, makers, studios and cultural institutions lend, swap and share tools, materials, spaces and skills with each other, with no money changing hands. Made by creatives, for creatives.
The problem
people work in Austria's creative sector.
of creatives live on a low income, according to our pitch research.
central platforms that combine swapping, sharing, a network and trust for culture.
Equipment, materials and rooms are expensive or exclusive, while kilns, projectors and plinths sit unused in studios and institutions. Meanwhile every museum and studio is expected to show its environmental responsibility, without the tools to measure it.
Types of exchange
Share what fits you, and choose how you want to be paid.
Cameras, projectors, tools, lighting, sound, 3D printers, assembly materials and exhibition equipment, to borrow or swap.
Exchange expertise: graphic design for photography, video editing for curatorial advice, translation for programming, exhibition installation for web development.
Studios, project rooms and workshops, for a day or a season.
Your equipment or skills for theirs. No money, no points.
Earn points when you share. Spend them to use what others offer.
Accept swaps and points on the same listing, and decide case by case.
What you can share
37 categories and 60 subcategories in 10 creative fields, from art materials and cameras to curatorial advice, spaces and craft commissions. Every category tells you if it is equipment, a skill or a space, and the listing form suggests more than 700 example items.
Learn more
How listing and swapping work, what PEER-Points are, why you can trust the community, and the questions people ask most.
Sustainability
Peermute wants to do good in two ways. Socially, it brings people together through creativity, art and culture and builds companionship and trust between them. Ecologically, it favours use over purchase: instead of buying new and leaving things unused, we lend, swap and share what already exists.
Behind the screen, Peermute runs on servers of Infomaniak, a Swiss provider. Infomaniak states that its new D4 data centre in Geneva needs no air conditioning, reaches a PUE of 1.09 (the European average is 1.6) and feeds the heat of all the electricity it uses into Geneva's district heating, enough at full capacity for about 6,000 households. It also produces solar power on its sites and aims to generate as much renewable energy as it consumes. These are the provider's own figures. Our part is to keep the platform light: no tracking, no ads, self-hosted fonts.
Legal and data protection
Peermute is based in Vienna, where the pilot starts, and follows Austrian law. The GDPR applies to small platforms too. The Digital Services Act scales its duties by company size, so not every duty of large platforms applies to us automatically. Online memberships for consumers carry a 14-day right of withdrawal.
All rules and legal documents · AGB · Mitgliedschaftsbedingungen · Widerrufsbelehrung
Where we are
Now, 2026
Interviews with creatives confirmed the need. Brand strategy is set, the architecture is sketched, and the MVP, legal and data protection work has started.
Next 6 to 12 months
Build matching and impact tracking, choose 10 to 15 pilot partners and bring on the first 50 to 100 members.
After the pilot
Ambassador programme, pop-up swap days, workshops, then more cities and federal states in Austria.
Years 3 and 4
Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam and Copenhagen are the target cities.
We are selecting pilot studios, collectives and institutions in Vienna. If you have something to share or something you need, you are the person we are building this for.