Custom Taxonomies Archive Page 404

I solved it with this workaround. I created a new page (“Movies” with the URL domain.cc/movies) and added this via shortcode:

<?php
     $taxonomy = 'artists';
     $tax_terms = get_terms( $taxonomy, array(
    'post_type' => 'artwork',
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order' => 'ASC' 
     ) );
 ?>
 <?php
     foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) {
 ?><div class="artistslist">
     <a href="https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/<?php echo $taxonomy;?>/<?php echo $tax_term->slug;?>"><?php echo $tax_term->name;?>
     </div>
 <?php } ?>

Now I can access artist archives via domain.cc/artists/some-artist-name, and an A-Z list of all artists on domain.cc/artists