Molly Soda’s recent digital painting is featured in the current online exhibition curated by Matthew Britton & Brett O’Connor at 404 Error Gallery. Check out the show here.
404ERROR.GALLERY | 6 December 2016
ARTRABBIT | 29 November 2016
Vivi Kalliniku interviews Molly Soda about her work, her nudes and what it means to be online. Vivi writes “Her Twitter feed is a piece of performance art. Her YouTube beauty tutorials have an inimitable style and her take on the digital is what everyone should be talking about.” Read the full interview here.
ARTVERGE | 24 November 2016
Ivan Liovik Ebel is interviewed by ArtVerge. The article “Spaces in Between: Analysing Ivan Liovik Ebel’s Relational Aesthetics” not only provides important insights into the artist’s arts making process but also some more personal elements of his character. His work was featured at AKG in Zero Zero summer group exhibition. Read the full interview here.
THIS IS TOMORROW | 24 November 2016
Molly Soda’s Comfort Zone on view at AKG is featured on This is Tomorrow. Read the full article here.
CURATING THE CONTEMPORARY | 24 November 2016
A conversation between Gretchen Andrew and Curating the Contemporary’s editor, Elisa Giorgi.
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Wall Street Journal | 21 November 2016
Ivana Basic is mentioned in WSJ’s review “Dreamlands’ at the Whitney Museum: Between Illusion and Reality” in relation to her participation in the current group exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016. The exhibition runs through 5 February, 2017. You can read the full article here.
VIOLETTE COLLECTIVE | 17 November 2016
Viollette Collective interviews Molly Soda via Skype. Listen to the full interview here.
SPINDLE MAGAZINE |16 November 2016
Molly Soda was interviewed with regards to her exhibition Comfort Zone at AKG by Spindle magazine. Victoria Pierce writes, ” Comfort Zone brings together the artist’s exploration of how social media, instant messaging and constant online sharing invades and affects our lives today, blurring the lines between our private and public self.” Read the full article here.
ARTSY | 16 November 2016
Artsy publishes “The Gallerist’s Art Fair’s Survival Guide“, featuring top tips from art world wonder personalities, among them Nate Freeman, senior staff writer at Artnews, Annka Kultys, gallery owner and Simon de Pury, co-founder of De Pury De Pury. Read all the interviews here.
CURATING THE CONTEMPORARY | 14 November 2016
Angela Pippo has reviewed Molly Soda Comfort Zone in Curating the Contemporary. She writes: “Molly Soda’s practice responds to the broad preoccupation with the changing of global social dynamics, and for her second solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, she proposes a new selection of projects by opening the door of her MacBook memory”. Read the full article here.
18 STREET ARTS CENTER | 13 November
Molly Soda work in 24-hour video art marathon was live- streamed by 18th Street Arts Center around the world on 13 November 2016. This online exhibition was curated by Alexandra White. More information can be found here.
THIS IS TOMORROW | 11 November 2016
Molly Soda Comfort Zone on view at AKG is listed in THIS IS TOMORROW, a contemporary art magazine, featuring some of the most innovative and culturally significant exhibitions around the world. More information can be found here.
THE ART PARTNERS | 10 November 2016
Sherman Sam Together We’re Heavy was featured on The Art Partners’s list of “The Five Exhibitions to visits this month in London” citing Zabludowicz Collection, Somerset House, Annka Kultys Gallery, Victoria Miro Mayfair and White Cube Bermondsey. More information can be found here.
ARTEFACT MAGAZINE | 7 November 2016
Iman El Kafrawi reviews Molly Soda’s solo-exhibition Comfort Zone at Annka Kultys Gallery for Artefact Magazine. She writes that Comfort Zone “is a raw, authentic view on the way the public world of social media and the Internet is embedded into our ‘private’ lives, and that we are never alone.” To read the full review, click here.
RHIZOME | 5 November 2016
Gretchen Andrew’s exhibition HOW TO HOW TO HOW TO at arebyte gallery has been featured in Rhizome Magazine.
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MUSEE MAGAZINE | 3 November 2016
Ivana Basic is featured in Musée Magazine in relation to her participation in the exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 at the Whitney in New York. “Ivana Basic’s sculpture ‘SOMA’ features a plasticky corpse hanging on a metal bar, with the torso melting into the limbs as if the body was popped in the microwave and removed a gooey mutation. And the sense of dread and disgust at the sight of this work reveals a very human sensation to remain human, despite the cyborg stage”, writes Celina Huynh. Read the full article here.
METAL MAGAZINE | 2 November 2016
Signe Pierce’s conversation with Jos Porath is reported in Metal Magazine; with references to cyberfeminism and other concepts the artist explores in her practice, the interview outlines Pierce’s investigation of the boundaries between reality, digitality and deception.
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EYES TOWARD THE DOVE | 1 November 2016
The current group exhibition Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 at the Whitney featuring Ivana Basic works has been reviewed by Jongho Lee in Eyes Towards the Dove. Referencing Basic’s video and sculpture ‘SOMA’ (2013-), he writes: “Her body exists in countless ways, including in the future through means of production that have not even been realized yet. In the existing rendering at the exhibit, her body appears both as a sculpture and an animation.” Read the full review here.
TIME OUT LONDON | 27 October 2016
Eddy Frankel has reviewed Molly Soda Comfort Zone in Time Out. Frankel writes “The show works because Soda’s exposing the seedy, aggressive, anonymous, sexual underbelly of digital life. Not just hers: we’re all implicated.” Read the full review here.
MOUSSE MAGAZINE | 25 October 2016
Molly Soda Comfort Zone, on view at AKG, is featured in Mousse Magazine, published on 25 October 2016. More information can be found here.
WHITNEY MUSEUM | 23 October 2016
Ivana Basic is participating in a group show Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016 at the Whitney, New York. The exhibition runs 28 October, 2016 – 5 February, 2017.
TIME OUT LONDON | 21 October 2016
The current exhibition Comfort Zone by Molly Soda’s featured at Annka Kultys Gallery has been listed by Eddy Frankel in Time Out London, along with Amalia Ulman at Arcadia Missa and Petra Cortright at Carl Kostyal in “The shows you need to see this Saturday“. More information can be found here.
PAUL’S ART WORLD | 16 October 2016
Molly Soda Comfort Zone has been listed by the writer and curator, Paul Carey-Kent as the gallery show to see in London along with Neo Rauch at David Zwirner, Donna Huanca at Zabludowicz, Cindy Sherman and David Salle at Skarstedt. He writes: “I often feel that artists using new media ending up making ersatz versions of what could been made by other means, but American Molly Soda’s stream of screens, iPads, selfies, messages and images does feel genuinely alternative” in “Choices up Now“. Read the full article here.
ARTRABBIT | 12 October 2016
Comfort Zone, the exhibition by Molly Soda at Annka Kultys Gallery, has been listed by Viky Kalliniku in “Five shows to see in London this week“. More information can be found here.
ARTSPACE | 7 October 2016
Loney Abrams spoke with Basic in her Brooklyn studio about the digital and material ways the artist has alienated herself from her own body, about the ever-present existential fear that she experienced growing up in Serbia in the ’90s, and about her plans for an upcoming group show at the Whitney Museum. Read the full interview here.
ARTSY | 7 October 2016
Molly Soda is featured in “How Feminist Photography of the 1970’s Paved the Way for Women Artist Today“. Charlotte Jansen writes: “Simultaneously sexy and imperfect, Hannah Wilke’s SOS Stratification Object Series (1975) recalls the body-hair flouting tactics and censor-defying use of nudity and menstrual blood of young feminist artists, such as Molly Soda.” Read the full article here.
TRACTION MAGAZINE | 3 October 2016
Charlotte Bernard interviews Ivana Basic in “Throat Wanders Down the Blade“. “I am inside of the body and looking out. I am looking at what happens in the confines of that limited space, which is our habitat,” notes the artist. Read the full interview here.
SLEEK MAGAZINE | 3 October 2016
Gloria Cardona interviews Molly Soda on Comfort Zone, the artist’s second solo show with Annka Kultys Gallery, and writes “Molly Soda Challenges the Notion of Private Areas as Safe-havens“. Read the article here.
HARPERS BAZAAR | 27 September 2016
AKG is mentioned in an interview with Legacy Russell by Harper’s Bazaar. Read the full article here.
ARTVERGE | 26 September 2016
Yannis Kostarias reviews Ivana Basic’s exhibition and notes: “Annka Kultys gallery’s exhibitions have been remarkable indications of creativity in the long-term vitality of the east London art scene.” You can read the full review here.
AQNB | 26 September 2016
Adeleine St has written a thorough review of Ivana Basic’s exhibition Throat wanders down the blade… at Annka Kultys Gallery for AQNB magazine. Describing the work, she writes: “The nape of the neck, a jagged rib, flesh that could once have been a hand, the nub of a heel, oscillating between foetal and decaying…” Read the full review here.
THE QUIETUS | 25 September 2016
Robert Barry has written about Ivana Basic’s solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Throat wanders down the blade... “The work of Ivana Basic takes its starting point from human flesh, in all its horror and ambiguity,” writes Barry in “Aliens Bodies. Ivana Basic at Annka Kultys.” An interview with Ivana Basic follows his introduction as well as an extract of Ivana’s new book published by Annka Kultys Gallery. Read the full article here.
INVERSE | 6 September 2016
Jamie Loftus interviews Molly Soda about her artistic practice, while the artist is preparing for her second solo exhibition Comfort Zone on view 14 October 2016 at Annka Kultys Gallery in London. Read the full interview here.
ARTNET | 28 July 2016
Molly Soda is featured on Artnet in “9 Emerging Artist You Need to Know About Right Now“. Listing young artists across America who are catching our eye right now, Caroline Elbaor & Brian Boucher describe Molly Soda’s first ever solo exhibition as “impressive solo show at London’s newly-minted Annka Kultys Gallery”. Read the full article here.
ARTSY | 21 July 2016
Dash Snow figures prominently in “These 8 Photographers Captured the Youth Culture of the ’90s,’” an insightful editorial by Molly Gottschalk on Artsy that presents a cadre of artists as exemplars of end-of-the-century sensibilities. Read the full article here.
BERLIN ART LINK | 17 July 2016
Romily Alice reviews Annka Kultys Gallery’s exhibition Zero Zero for Berlin Art Link.
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MOUSSE MAGAZINE | 14 July 2016
The gallery group exhibition Zero Zero on view at Annka Kultys Gallery is featured in Mousse Magazine.
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STADTGALERIE | 7-23 July 2016
Molly Soda is featured in a group show Your Digital Self Hates You in Bern, Switzerland. The exhibition also features Ann Hirsch, Camille Kaiser, Elisa Giardina Papa, Sunita Prasad, Tabita Rezaire, Mathias Ringgenberg, Amalia Ulman, and May Waver. The show runs from 7-23 July, 2016.
NOWNESS | 6 July 2016
Nowness’ feature Zero Zero Takeover reports Annka Kultys Gallery’s summer group show Zero Zero.
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THE QUIETUS | 1 July 2016
Zero Zero, at Annka Kultys Gallery, was reviewed by Robert Barry for The Quietus.
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PAPER MAG | 16 June 2016
Molly Soda was interviewed by Paper Mag with regards to her latest series of digital paintings inspired by Sex and the City. Soda is quoted saying: “Sex and the City is such a visually-pleasing show to me — the outfits, the city, the fantastical “events” they find themselves at. I wanted to take those elements and combine them with my personal touch and sort of bring their world into my world.” Read the full article here.
MOUSSE MAGAZINE | 1 May 2016
Alexandra Gorczynski’s exhibition Never Forever at AKG was reviewed by Mousse Magazine. Gorczynski is quoted saying: “Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the work is its play upon the continuum that exists between traditional painting and new media.” Read the full article here.
OBSERVER | 13 April 2016
Molly Soda is interviewed for the article “How I get By: The Lives of Five American Artists” by Ryan Steadman for the Observer. Read the full article here.
ARSHAKE | 12 April 2016
Gretchen Andrew has been interviewed by Elena Giulia Rossi for the magazine Arshake.
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NYLON | 7 April 2016
Molly Soda’s article ‘This Web Artist Is Ditching The Razor And Fighting The Patriarchy’ was featured in the April 2016 issue of Nylon magazine. Read the full article here.
DETROIT FREE PRESS | 3 April 2016
CCS Centre Galleries exhibition Doubly So in Detroit, including works my Molly Soda, is reported in Detroit Free Press. Read the full article here.
52 INSIGHTS | 28 March 2016
Signe Pierce has been interviewed by 52 Insights concerning her and Alli Coates’ video work ‘American Reflexxx’, which now has more than 1.5 million views on YouTube.
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DETROIT ART REVIEW | 19 March 2016
Molly Soda’s work in the exhibition Doubly So at the CCS Centre Galleries in Detroit is reviewed by Clara DeGalan for the Detroit Art Review. She writes, “Soda’s work in “Doubly So” left me with a grim suspicion that autonomy of image in social media still alludes women, and it’s a problem we are going to have to spend a few more decades thinking our way around.” Read the full article here.
AUJOURD’HUI | 19 March 2016
Hello, This is Dash at AKG is reviewed by Aujourd’hui. “Making art by recording his life was a form of both communication and catharsis for Snow” writes the author. Read the full article here.
ANOTHER | 18 March 2016
Hello, this is Dash at AKG is reviewed by Another magazine. Annka Kultys is quoted saying: “Now, I am showing his work because I believe that his works are a bridge between his generation and the new Instagramming generation who also makes the private public.” Read the full article here.
DAZED | 17 March 2016
To mark Dash Snow’s exhibition at AKG Dazed has reprinted a 2006 interview with the artist. “I don’t really know much about technique, I just aim to ‘keep the moment’… I feel like technology is a fool’s game” says Dash. Read the full interview here.
ARTSLANT | 9 March 2016
Alexandra Gorczynski is Artslant’s ‘Wednesday Web Artist of the Week’. Christian Petersen writes, “There is a subtle and precise attention to detail as well as a distinct subversive wit that elevates her compositions to distinctly classical levels.” Read the full article here.
SAATCHI GALLERY | 9 March 2016
Virgile Ittah’s Champagne Life is on view at the Saatchi Gallery until 9 Mar 2016.
ART MONTHLY | March 2016
Molly Soda’s exhibition From my bedroom to yours at AKG is mentioned in Paul Carey-Kent’s article “Getting Art” in Art Monthly. Read the full article here.
ART ASIA PACIFIC | 2 March 2016
Ittah Yoda’s exhibition at AKG is reviewed by Ambika Rajgopal for Art Asia Pacific. “From their personal narrative, Ittah Yoda imbue their works with an individual and cultural specificity, which results from a transcultural collaboration”, writes Rajgopal. Read the full article here.
1 GRANARY | 26 February 2016
Ittah Yoda’s collaboration and exhibition I Think Mango You Say Salmon at AKG is detailed by Aric Miller in his article “Ittah Yoda and the Yin and Yang of Artist Collaboration’ on 1 Granary. The duo are quoted saying: “Maybe we are continuing this collaboration because we thought that on our own we wouldn’t have made enough good, relevant or strong work, whereas together we can strike a perfect balance.” Read the full article here.
MOUSSE MAGAZINE | 26 February 2016
I Think Mango You Say Salmon is reviewed on Mousse magazine. The author describes Ittah Yoda’s exhibition at AKG as “the culmination of the artists’ recent creative collaboration and comprises ten pieces that explore the subjectivity of the human experience”. Read the full article here.
AUJOURD’HUI | 14 February 2016
Ittah Yoda’s exhibition at AKG I Think Mango You Say Salmon was reviewed on Aujourd’hui. The author writes, “In I think mango you say salmon Ittah Yoda have harnessed their fragile collective to produce works evocative of Waal’s dream of endless beautiful flow.” Read the full review here.
THE GUARDIAN | 4 February 2016
Molly Soda is featured in the Guardian in the article “Are Selfies empowering for women?” by Laura Bates who writes: “Artist Molly Soda last year leaked her own nude snaps in a statement about regaining power and control from nude picture hackers”. Read the full article here.
GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD | 1 February 2016
Molly Soda is featured in the group show The Mercury Theatre Reality Show organised by Galerie Christophe Gaillard in Paris. The exhibition features 30 artists adopting an anonymous group instagram account: The_Mercury_Theatre and runs from 1-28 February 2016.
FLAUNT MAGAZINE | 15 January 2016
Katie Gavin writes about Molly Soda’s Pretend (2015) for Flaunt magazine. “Molly Soda erases the line between artifice and sincerity, and the fluctuating boundaries of 21st century social media performance art” says Gavin. Read the full article here.
THIS IS TOMORROW | 9 January 2016
AUJOURD’HUI | 5 January 2016
Molly Soda’s solo exhibition at AKG From My Bedroom To Yours is mentioned on Aujourd’hui. Read the full article here.
MOUSSE MAGAZINE | 24 December 2015
From My Bedroom To Yours was published on Mousse Magazine. Read the full article here .
ARTSLANT | 27 November 2015
From My Bedroom To Yours was reviewed by Charlotte Jansen for Artslant. Jansen is convinced that “the show is a confident leap in a new direction, both for the artist, and for the art of this genre”. Read the full review here.
FEBRUARY STATIONERY | 23 November 2015
From My Bedroom To Yours was reviewed by Marianne Eloise for February Stationery. She writes, “The work itself, some of her most iconic videos and Newhive pieces from over the years, is delightfully at odds with the ‘girly’ pinks. It speaks of the real juxtaposition that happens within young women, wherein we feel such intense sadness and pain in intimate girly bedroom spaces.” Read the full article here.
DAZED | 23 November 2015
Molly Soda was interviewed by Ashleigh Kane for Dazed. Kane writes, “Her work is so relatable, not only because it exists in its entirely online, but because she breaks through the fourth wall that most of us keep shatterproof when it comes to constructing our identities, whether online or off.” Read the full interview here.
MYTEMPLART | 13 November 2015
Annka Kultys was interviewed by Maria Teresa Ortoleva about AKG’s debut exhibition Desire of the Other. “Desire of the Other was a curatorial project that pulled together ideas from a decade of observations about collecting behaviours. It was a commentary on what I observed in the market and the growing importance of new collectors in promoting artists in unexpected ways.” says Kultys. Read the full interview here.
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CREATE HUB | 5 August 2015
Amy Haddad, Create Hub’s editor, considers the attention that VR recently gained following a conversation with Gretchen Andrew.
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MET MUSEUM DIGITAL UNDERGROUND | 6 February 2014
Conversation between Gretchen Andrew and MET’s Content Partnerships Manager, Neal Stimler, spanning from the usage of Google Glass in museums to digital culture and how artists’ practice can evolve thanks to technology.
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