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Annka Kultys has been interviewed by Anika Meier for Misa.Art on how she has come to collect and promote works by digital natives and how Annka Kultys Gallery is like Duchamp’s boîte en valise.
The Steidz has reviewed Data Dating at Galerie Charlot, featuring works from !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Adam Basanta, Addie Wagenknecht, Jeroen van Loon, John Yuyi, Moises Sanabria, Olga Fedorova, Pablo Garcia, Thomas Israël, Tom Galle, Zach Gage. Henri Guette writes that Olga Fedorova’s works “can allow us to reinvest loneliness”. To read the full review, click here.
Olga Fedorova’s digital artworks have been mentioned in a review of the group show Data Dating at Galerie Charlot in Paris. In the article, the writer Marie-Laure Desjardins writes that Fedorova fabricates ‘proposals that make us observers of strange scenes, almost disturbing, and especially incomprehensible, as are generally the fantasies of others.’ Read the review on their website here.
ArtForum has reported that Art Foundation Pax, a Swiss organisation dedicated to the promotion of digital and media-based art, has awarded the inaugural Pax Art Award to !Mediengruppe Bitnik founders Domago Smoljo and Carmen Weisskopf.
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23 MARCH – 3 APRIL 2018
AREBYTE GALLERY, LONDON, UK
!Mediengruppe Bitnik will give an artist’s talk today as part of the Vis_com Lecture Series: ALT-OUTPUT at the Institut Visuelle Kommunikation at FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. For more information, visit the university’s website here.
Keen On Magazine’s Aude Launay has interviewed !Mediengruppe Bitnik about their algorithmic work, Random Darknet Shopper.
Digicult has written a review of Future Love: Desire and Kinship in Hypernature, a group show at Haus der electronischen Künste Basel featuring works by !Mediengruppe Bitnik.
Tom Hägler of RTS has reviewed Future Love. Desire and Kinship in Hypernature, an exhibition of artworks that explore technologically mediated intimacy in the modern world at HeK Basel, and which features !Mediengruppe Bitnik (article in French).
Annka Kultys Gallery received a mention in Paul Carey-Kent’s list of top exhibitions in 2017, which nods to the gallery’s program of future-facing exhibitions.
Tabish Khan at FAD has named !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s show Are You Online Now? as one of the “Top 9 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London.”
Mousse Magazine has featured !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s show, Are You Online Now, on view at Annka Kultys Gallery from 12 October till 11 November 2017.
The group show at pop-up exhibition The Glass Room, which includes !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s work Ashley Madison Angels at Work in London (2017), has been mentioned in a BBC article by their technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik’s work is featured in Looking into Your Online Life, an exhibition at The Glass Room in London bringing together more than 40 different exhibits and artworks that look at how our personal data is used and sold by companies on a daily basis.
Neowin has mentioned The Glass Room’s pop-up exhibition Looking into Your Online Life, featuring !Mediengruppe Bitnik videos.
Paul Carey-Kent has reviewed !Mediengruppe Bitnik’s show Are You Online Now? at Annka Kultys Gallery, writing “The Swiss collective…imaginatively subverts the online world, here with a striking installation which operates in appropriation and exposure mode, but also metaphysically.”
!Mediengruppe Bitnik’s first solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Are You Online Now? has been reported in Wall Street International.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik’s upcoming presentation of Are You Online Now? at Annka Kultys Gallery has been listed by AQNB.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik’s upcoming exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery has been listed in Time Out.