CREATORS VICE | 20 June 2017

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Ivana Basic’s exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, New York, was reviewed in Creator Vice. In the review, writher Beckett Mufson points to how “Bašić’s sculptures have been compared to the movie monsters of H.R. Giger and Ridley Scott. A more accurate conceptual reference, however, would be the stories of Franz Kafka, a key influence on Bašić’s work.” Read the complete review here.

LIKE A LITTLE DISASTER | 18 June 2017

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Stine Deja has been included in And If I Left Off Dreaming About You, a group show curated by the Like a Little Disaster collective at the Foothold project space in Polignano a Mare, Italy. Also included are works by Gioia de Girolamo, Motoko Ishibashi, Lito Kattou, Botond Keresztesi and Maurizio Vicerè-Vice. The exhibition will remain on view until 18 August. For more information, click here.

ELEPHANT | 16 June 2017

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Dominic Dispirito’s work in the 2017 Slade School of Fine Art MFA Degree Show has been listed in Elephant Magazine’s round-up of top highlights from the show. The author, Emily Steer, writes: “The world in Dispirito’s works feels recognisable but also oddly alien, and has a sketchy rather than polished feel to it, drawing to mind a place that is malleable and changeable, as well as technically experimental for the artist.” You can read the full list of highlights here.

ARTFORUM | 9 June 2017

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Ivana Baśič’s current solo show at Marlborough Contemporary in New York was reviewed by Artforum. “Her work suggests that we have not yet tasted the trauma we have envisioned. We are merely testing its reality”, writes Matthew Weinstein. Read the full article here.

ATP DIARY | 4 June 2017

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Anne Vieux was interviewed by Giulia Ponzano about her recent show ‘mesh’ at AKG. Meditating on the show’s title Vieux is quoted saying: “I used the concept of enmeshment loosely, thinking about how the viewer might be seduced into the surfaces of the paintings, and boundaries between what is physical / digital.” Read the full interview here.

AQNB | 24 May 2017

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Ivana Bašić’s solo exhibition this month at Marlborough Contemporary in New York is reported on AQNB. “Looking at dust, particles, form, as well as physical states of pressure, density and porosity, Bašić will immerse us in the relationship between body and universe”, the author writes. Read the full article here.

FAD MAGAZINE | 21 May 2017

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Anne Vieux’s current exhibition mesh at AKG is included in Tabish Khan’s list of “The Top Nine Exhibitions to see this week in London”. Khan writes that the works “…fool the eyes and appear to change right in front of us.” Read the full article here.

FORGE ART MAG | 1 May 2017

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Molly Soda was interviewed by Matthew James-Wilson for Forge Art Mag about her artistic practice and identity. “Her pendulum swings from sincere to performative, but never goes outside the realm of honesty. As she continues to navigate the world wide web… she brings to light the human patterns the internet brings out in everyone who uses it”, writes James-Wilson. Read the full interview here.

FEM MAGAZINE | 24 April 2017

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Molly Soda was interviewed by Rebecca Vorich for Fem Magazine with regards to her exhibition ‘thanks for the add’ and her recently published book ‘Pics or it didn’t happen: Images banned from Instagram’. Soda’s work “is putting the utopian internet to rest and illumination the subtle workings of the corporate influence”, writes Vorich. Read the full interview here.

ALTERNATIVE ESCAPE | 21 April 2017

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Anne Vieux was interviewed by Alternative Escape about her upcoming solo exhibition Mesh at AKG this month. “This exhibition will create a space for the viewers’ bodies to exist within the mesh of the work, but also an out of body element…potentially a parallel virtual experience.” explains Vieux. Read the full interview here.

THE TANGENTIAL | 14 April 2017

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Molly Soda and Arvida Byström’s book Pics or it didn’t happen is reviewed by Jay Gabler for the Tangential. “Pics or It Didn’t Happen complicates the idea of Instagram — or any other online social network — as a “community”, writes Gabler. Read the full article here .

THE QUIETUS | 9 April 2017

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Concrete Jungle, the recent exhibition of works by Tamar Guimarães, Michelle Williams Gamaker and Julia Kouneski at AKG, was reviewed by Robert Barry for The Quietus. Barry describes Gamaker and Kouneski’s  Scaling Copan ( 2009) as “a lesson in finding moments of joy in even the most precarious of situations.” Read the full article here.

WIDEWALLS | 2 April 2017

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Molly Soda was interviewed by Widewalls with regards to her latest exhibition “thanks for the add!” at leiminspace in Los Angeles. “It’s a show about my early life online and it deals with this era of sharing things before the social media we know today came up…(it) deals with questions about archiving and with how we put so much faith in the Internet” says Soda. Read the full interview here.

ARTSPACE | 17 March 2017

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Ivana Basic’s work in the recent exhibition  Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 at the Whitney in New York  is discussed in the article ‘Can Virtual Reality Help Us Understand Gender Identity’. Read the full article here.

PAPER MAGAZINE | 15 March 2017

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Molly Soda and Arvida Byström were interviewed by Paper magazine about their new book ‘Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Images Banned From Instagram‘. Annie Felix writes “Pics or It Didn’t Happen is a political and historical statement in direct disobedience of corporation-dictated rules… It’s an addition to your coffee table that actually explores the power of the image in our collective memory, and how deleting an image is akin to deleting a piece of history – if there aren’t any pictures, it didn’t happen.” Read the full article here.

ARTSY | 13 March 2017

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Artsy published an article about the book ‘Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Images Banned From Instagramby Arvida Byström and Molly Soda, featuring photographs that have been banned from Instagram.  “The book engages in a dialogue around the policies found across social media, which are designed to keep users safe, though have unintentionally censored artistic freedoms.” writes Molly Gottschalk. Read the full article here.

NYLON | 9 March 2017

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Molly Soda speaks with Nylon about Instagram. Molly Beauchemin notes: “If Instagram is a space where every photo tells a story, even subversive images become part of the narrative.” Read the full article here.

MASK MAGAZINE | 5 March 2017

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Anne Vieux is interviewed in The Material issue in March 2017 of MASK Magazine. Vieux is quoted saying: “I’ve seen some work that focuses on the body and the application of technology via the body. I think about the social effects of technology and colour.” Read the full article here.

MASK MAGAZINE | 28 February 2017

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Molly Soda is interviewed in Lonely issue in February 2017 of MASK Magazine. The article “Alone with Molly Soda,” by Randon Rosenbohm, features on ongoing dialogue about the internet and if it does make us more lonely or if brings us closer together. Soda is quoted saying, “A lot of my loneliness is not an act, but it’s also a thing I’m playing with it. Being alone is the only way that I can make the work that I make, because a lot of it is about the things that we do when we’re alone, the way we sort of perform loneliness for other people, and what it means to put it on the internet.” Read the full article here.

MAN REPELLER | 16 February 2017

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Molly Soda and her recent exhibition Comfort Zone at AKG are reviewed on Man Repeller. Hannah Keegan writes: “The chaotic mix of Soda’s digital world is unsettling; even more so is the sense of familiarity that sets in after viewing curated glimpses of her ‘real’ life.” Read the full article here.

TRACTION MAGAZINE | 24 February 2017

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Sherman Sam is interviewed in Traction Magazine. The article by Charlotte Barnard, features a dialogue about his process and approach to painting and drawing. Sam is quoted saying “They come about in a process of, lets call it, searching, working through, erasure and then finally equipoise.” Read the full article here.

DROSTE EFFECT | 10 February 2017

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Ruth Waters’ Generalised Anxiety Relaxation Centre, the closing event of Cacotopia at AKG, was reported by Manu Buttiglione for Droste Effect. Waters is quoted describing the event as: “Generalized Anxiety Relaxation (2016), presented at Annka Kultys Gallery as part of Cacotopia, a group show featuring five recent 2016 MFA graduates, is made up of a series of bookable workshops in meditation, relaxation and self love.” Read the full article here.

ORGAN | 19 January 2017

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The group exhibition Cacotopia at Annka Kultys Gallery is reviewed in ORGAN. The author writes “for the second part of Cocotopia is equally as compelling as last week’s first part was”. Read the full review here.

AMUSE | 16 January 2017

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Molly Soda is included in Amuses’s article on “7 Female Artists Turning their Bedrooms into Art”. Soda is quoted saying: “My work is interested in what we do within our private spaces and what happens when we make those spaces public”. Read the full article here.

TIME OUT LONDON | 17 December 2016

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Molly Soda’s Comfort Zone, second solo exhibition at AKG is featured in Time Out in “Best Art Exhibitions of 2016” by Eddy B Frankel, art editor of Time Out London magazine. The list includes Abstract Expressionism of The Royal Academy of Art, Anselm Kiefer Exhibitionat White Cube, William Eggleston Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, Animality at Marian Goodman, Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro, Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern, Zaha Hadidat The Serpentine, Bruce Nauman at BlainSouthern and Jeff Koons at Newport Street Gallery, Donna Huanca at Zabludowicz Collection and The Ethics of Dust at Houses of Parliament. More information can be found here.

ARTRABBIT | 29 November 2016

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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.

SPINDLE MAGAZINE |16 November 2016

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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.

CURATING THE CONTEMPORARY | 14 November 2016

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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.

ARTEFACT MAGAZINE | 7 November 2016

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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.

MUSEE MAGAZINE | 3 November 2016

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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.

ARTSLANT | 2 November 2016

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Olga Fedorova is Artslant’s ‘Wednesday Web Artist of the Week’. Christian Petersen writes, “Fedorova’s work explores contemporary obsessions with clinical modernism and sterile technology, which she uneasily couples with a unique blend of untamed nature and raw sexuality.” Read the full article here.

EYES TOWARD THE DOVE | 1 November 2016

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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.