ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY
DROOL Creatives has featured Me and my gurls, Molly Soda’s third solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery. In the show, Soda has created an installation that mimics the interior of her computer screen, effectively inviting the visitor into her desktop space. To check out the listing, click here.
Time Out London will include a review of Molly Soda’s new solo show Me and my gurls in its upcoming print issue. Author Eddy Frankel writes, “Is Soda vain and neurotic? Totally. But we all are. It’s just that instead of hiding her vanity on a hard drive, she is letting it out and allowing the whole internet to tear it apart. And by exposing herself, she’s exposing the rest of us. If you don’t like what you see, you might just be seeing a bit too much of yourself.” Me and my gurls is on view at Annka Kultys Gallery through 16 June. To read the full review online, click here.
London-based website London Photography Diary has listed Molly Soda’s Me and My Gurls as one of its current exhibition choices in the city. In this show, Soda has transformed the gallery into a physical version of her desktop, thereby inviting the viewer into her most personal and sacred space. For more information and to see the full listing, click here.
Spanish magazine !Ah! has profiled Signe Pierce in an article which describes the relationship between Pierce’s signature hyper-saturated aesthetic, feminism and the current state of digital culture (article in Spanish).
The inaugural issue of the Boston Art Review has published an interview with Molly Soda. Discussing the relationship between space and art in her work, Soda says: “My art takes private space and broadcasts it. I’m more interested in intimate spaces as opposed to say, a city sidewalk or a subway car. While those spaces are equally as important to living, they don’t make their way into my work. I’m interested in what’s behind the door, not what’s outside of it.” Soda’s solo show Me and My Gurls is currently on view at Annka Kultys Gallery through 16 June. You can find the Boston Art Review here.
Cactus has included works by Signe Pierce in Issue 06 of its print magazine.
In a new guide to the city, London-based blog Lazy Oaf has listed Annka Kultys Gallery as its contemporary art choice.
Selected images from Molly Soda and Arvida Bystrom’s book Pics Or It Didn’t Happen are on display at Universiteit Hasselt in Belgium as part of the Stadstriënnale. The show will be on view through 1 June 2018. You can find more information here.
Chinese platform ArtLink Art has featured Metamirrorism, Signe Pierce’s solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, on its list of shows to see (article in Chinese).
The Selfridges Eye, a new editorial project focusing on individuals who challenge conventions and defy expectations, has featured Signe Pierce’s solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, Metamirrorism.
Community publication Hackney Citizen has written a round-up of the top shows to see in East London in May. Included in the list is Molly Soda’s upcoming solo exhibition Me and my gurls, opening at AKG on 9 May and running until 16 June. In a short preview of the show, author Andrew Barnes writes: “Soda is as keen as ever to share her world, and hang a lantern on the unique disconnections felt at the centre of online obsession.” To read the full listing and preview, click here.
French publication Open Minded has profiled Signe Pierce (article in French).
A new editorial piece on mindful Internet usage written by Alexxa Gotthardt for Artsy features a still from Molly Soda’s 2017 video piece, Touch to Play. To read the full article, click here.
In a listing of the top shows this week, FAD has named Signe Pierce’s solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery Metamirrorism as one of its top picks.
In a round-up of “shows to see now,” critic Tabish Khan lists Metamirrorism as one of the top shows in London.
The Art Partners, a collector’s service and criticism blog, has included Signe Pierce’s solo show Metamirrorism at Annka Kultys Gallery in a weekly digest of the best cultural events in London.
In an ode to floral photography, Hunger TV lists Signe Pierce as one of its favourite photographers of flowers, which were last shown in her first solo show, Faux Realities, at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Tamara Al-Mashouk has named Signe Pierce in relation to rockstar artists in the age of social media as part of an interview with Forbes.
The Leipzig Glocal writer Maeshelle West-Davis has reviewed Virtual Normality — Women Net Artists 2.0, a group show at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig featuring works by Signe Pierce.
In his round-up of top April shows, critic Paul Carey-Kent adds Signe Pierce’s Metamirrorism, on view at Annka Kultys Gallery through 28th April.
Lara Monro of Teeth Magazine has interviewed Signe Pierce about technocracy, ‘cyberfeminism’ and her new solo show Metamirrorism, on view at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Signe Pierce’s new solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Metamirrorism, has been listed in Dream Idea Machine’s round up of March shows internationally.
In a new article examining the current generation of women net artists, Elle Italia reviews Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0 at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, specifically citing the the work of Signe Pierce and Molly Soda (article in Italian).
TimeOut has reviewed Metamirrorism, Signe Pierce’s second solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Swedish news outlet Kurinen has just written an article about Pics or It Didn’t Happen – Molly Soda and Arvida Byström’s collaborative publication of pictures deleted by Instagram. The article explores the phenomenon of censorship of the arts online. You can read the full piece here.
On March 25, Molly Soda will be taking part in a presentation and workshop as part of the ICP Library’s event Queering the Collection, which is ongoing series Critical Jamming, hosted by artist Christopher Clary and organised by Claudine Boeglin. To learn more about this event, click here.
Stine Deja and Marie Munk’s interactive exhibition Synthetic Seduction has been featured on Mousse’s website.
Vogue Arabia has previewed Marzook’s Fall 2018 collection, photographed by Eli Rezkallah, in collaboration with Signe Pierce.
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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.
Stine Deja and Marie Munk have been interviewed by Hold Residency, a digital exhibition and editorial platform; they talk about the tragedy of simulated intimacy and exploring the theme of isolation.
Generic Jungle, Russian artist Olga Fedorova’s first solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, is mentioned by COSMOSCOW in an Artsy article speaking about young Russian artists exhibiting in the UK. Take a look at the full story here.
Tank Magazine’s Jan-Peter Westad has interviewed Stine Deja and and Marie Munk about their collaboration in Synthetic Seduction, and how technology alters social behaviour.
Plastik Studios has featured a photo story on Eli Rezkallah and Signe Pierce’s collaboration for Marzook.
Drool Creatives has featured Signe Pierce’s upcoming solo show Metamirrorism.
Tonight, a new group featuring the works of Stine Deja entitled Lend Me a Hand will open at Elmer in London. Curated by Ben Lunt, the show centres around a loss of artist’s agency in a post-internet contemporary art context. Reality loses meaning as installation shots replace the actual artwork in a process of converting art into “hyper matter.” For more information, click here.
Keen On Magazine’s Aude Launay has interviewed !Mediengruppe Bitnik about their algorithmic work, Random Darknet Shopper.
Art critic Tabish Khan has listed Synthetic Seduction, the dual-show and immersive environment created by Stine Deja and Marie Munk, as one of the top 7 shows to see in London this week.
Welt author Rahel Zingg has featured Signe Pierce in an article about young artists’ use of social media to combat societies standards of acceptability (article in German).
Swedish publication Svenska Dagbladet has profiled the work of Molly Soda and Arvida Bystöm, whose joint publication Pics or It Didn’t Happen showcases images that were banned from Instagram. You can read the full article here.
Signe Pierce was interviewed by Sarah Ulrich for German publication Spex for her involvement in the group show Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0 at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. You can read the full interview here.
Artland has interviewed Stine Deja and Marie Munk about their collaboration for Synthetic Seduction, an interactive exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Signe Pierce’s upcoming exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Metamirrorism has been listed in Art Rabbit’s “The Best of Spring in London: Our Top Contemporary Art Picks.”
Molly Soda’s involvement in the 2018 NADA Art Fair is reported by The Art Newspaper. Soda will be showing a range of works at 315 Gallery’s booth from 8 March – 11 March. To read the full round-up of artists to see at the fair, click here.
Kuba Paris has featured the new show Synthetic Seduction at Annka Kultys Gallery. Featuring the duel efforts of Stine Deja and Marie Munk, the exhibition is an immersive environment that seeks to tackle issues of digitally-mediated intimacy.
Molly Soda has been interviewed by Sasha Geffen in a new piece for The Creative Independent. Talking about the tension between what happens on the screen and behind the screen, Soda says: “The internet is funny because we think everyone’s being vulnerable. We’re supposed to be intimate online, but obviously we’re curating ourselves, whether we’re conscious of it or not. We’re creating these mood boards of our lives. I think what’s interesting is not what we’re presenting, but what we’re doing behind the screen, what our actions are. A screen recording of what someone does on their computer or on their phone in a day is like a diary entry at this point. We don’t consider it.” To read the full interview, click here.
Lisa Moravec has written a review of Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0, a group show Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig that includes the works of Molly Soda and Signe Pierce. Describing Soda’s contribution to the exhibition, Moravec writes: “Molly Soda’s sound-video installations show her in her private spaces, acting in a casual manner in front of her virtual audience. In That’s Me in the Corner (2017), she sings along with pop music numbers for about 30 minutes. We can see that the live audience on Instagram is watching her, but whether shewatches the audience, is not clear as she continues to look straight ahead, smiling from time to time.” To read the full review, click here.
Galleries Now, arts events listing site, has featured AKG’s current show Synthetic Seduction online.
Signe Pierce has been interviewed by Food Republic about her role in the design of the David-Lynch-inspired Rose Gold, a new bar in Brooklyn, New York.
Hamburg-based news magazine Stern has reviewed Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0 at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, which features work by Signe Pierce (article in German).
In order to gauge public opinion of Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0, a group show at MdbK Leipzig curated by Anika Meier, Indie Mag has gathered responses from visitors to the museum about the current state of feminism today in this unique review of the exhibition.
White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art writer Karen Moe has written a full round-up of Mexican art fairs Zona Maco and Material. Specifically, she mentions AKG’s booth at Material: “In a correspondingly aesthetic frolic, Dominic Dispirito of London’s Annka Kultys Gallery used a new fangled 3-D pen to build a flower garden that is reminiscent of one of Matisse’s charming bouquets. An electric blue blob that is maybe a melting Popsicle then overtakes the whole pretty thing.” To read the full review, click here.
AQNB has listed the opening of SYNTHETIC SEDUCTION, a new dual show featuring the work of Stine Deja and Marie Munk, as one of their top event picks for the week.
In a new column, Spiegel writer Sibylle Berg uses Signe Pierce’s American Reflexxx as a starting point for a wider conversation about the relationship between immediacy, tolerance, self-control and bigotry in the modern world (article in German).
Work by Ivana Basic will be included in the upcoming group show Crash Test: The Molecular Turn at La Panacée in Montpellier, France. Exploring the relations between culture and nature, rather than emphasizing its differences, Crash Test presents the works of 25 contemporary artists that deal with the notion of reality and blur traditional opposite concepts, such as artificial and natural. Opening tomorrow, 10 February, Crash Test will run through 6 May. For more information, click here.
Artist and writer John Bingham has featured Cacotopia 02 on his blog! The group show features five recent graduates from around Europe, giving these young artists a chance to show off their work. Rather than showing all five artists at once, in this show, each artist is shown once at a time as the show unfolds over five weeks. For more information and to read Bingham’s full post, click here.
Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to announce that we will be participating for the first time in Material Art Fair in Mexico City, Thursday 8 February through Sunday 11 February! Come visit our Latin-American debut at booth C17, where paintings by London-based artist Sherman Sam will be on view. For more information on the fair, click here.
Stine Deja has been interviewed and profiled by Daphne Milner for It’s Nice That, where she talks about her relationship to the commodification of mindfulness.
Cristin Leach has written a short but poignant review of Digital_self, a current group show in the Project Spaces at the Irish Museum of Modern Art featuring the work of Molly Soda. Leach writes: “Everyone’s a self-portrait maker now, broadcasting to a global audience via social media. Aptly, the most compelling work comes from artists using digital platforms.” Digital_selfclick here will be on view through 25 February. To read the complete review, .
In a new article about female artists in the time of social media, writer and curator Anika Meier discusses the work of Signe Pierce, Molly Soda, and Arvida Byström in the context of the changing nature of female identity as mediated by digital technology (article in German).
FAD Magazine has listed Cacotopia 02, the current group show at Annka Kultys Gallery, as one of the top 7 art exhibitions to see in London right now. The author, Tabish Khan, writes: “This impressive and labour intensive exhibition returns with a new artist every week during the six week run. My visit coincided with Hugo Servanin’s classical sculptures that allow water to seep into them and this distorts their shape over time. But the beauty of the show is visitors will have a different experience to mine.” Also on view as part of the show are Yarli Allison, Michal Plata, Bob Bicknell-Knight and Dominic Dispirito. To check out the complete list of rankings, click here.
Marlene Halser has written a review of Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0, featuring work by Signe Pierce, at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (article in German).
Marianne Abbott has interviewed Signe Pierce for DRØME Magazine about the contrast between harsh aggression and soft femininity in her work.
Molly Soda’s collaborative augmented reality work with Nicole Ruggiero and Refrakt Slide to Expose (2017) will be include in the 11th annual Cyfest. The project, entitled WEATHER FORECAST: DIGITAL CLOUDINESS, will open 2 February and run through 12 February at Museum of Applied Arts of St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. For more information about Cyfest, click here.
Dreamideamachine ART VIEW has included SYNTHETIC SEDUCTION, the upcoming dual-show of work by Stine Deja and Marie Munk, in its most recent art news round up.
John Martin Tilley has interviewed Signe Pierce for Office Magazine about her presentation of American Reflexxx at New Release Gallery in New York City.
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.
Molly Soda has been invited to give an artist’s talk this Friday (2 February) at the Photography Department of the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. For more information, click here.
i-D Deutschland has reviewed Virtual Normality – Women Net Artists 2.0, an exhibition at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig featuring the works of Molly Soda, Signe Pierce and Arvida Bystöm (article in German).
Wall Street International has featured Cacotopia 02, the current group show at Annka Kultys Gallery. Featuring the work of five emerging artists—Yarli Allison, Michal Plata, Hugo Servanin, Bob Bicknell-Knight and Dominic Dispirito—the show aims to give these young creatives a first platform to display their talent. Rather than showing all five artists at once, Cacotopia 02 shows one artist at a time, unfolding over the course of five weeks. Cacotopia 02 will be on view through 10 February. For more information, click here.
Things-to-do app DOJO has reviewed Cacotopia 02, the current group show at Annka Kultys Gallery. Unlike traditional group shows in which all of the artists are shown together, in Cacotopia, each artist is shown one at a time over the course of five weeks. For the second edition of this annual exhibition program, the artists selected are Yarli Allison, Michal Plata, Hugo Servanin, Bob Bicknell-Knight and Dominic Dispirito. Click here to read the full review.
Michael Meyns has written a review of Virtual Normality – Women Net Artist’s 2.0, a new group show at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig that includes the work of Molly Soda, Signe Pierce and Arvida Byström (article in German).
Les Inrockuptibles has reviewed Virtual Normality: Women Net Artists 2.0 at Museum de bildenden Künste Leipzig, including works by Molly Soda, Signe Pierce and Arvida Byström (article in French).
Signe Pierce has been listed by Hunger TV as one of “five female visual artists to follow right now” alongside peers Juno Calypso, Maisie Cousins, Alice Joiner and Alice Skinner.
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).
The Eye of Photography has reviewed the work of Signe Pierce in Virtual Normality: Women Net Artists 2.0 at MdbK Leipzig.
The Art Gorgeous has reviewed One Year of Resistance, a group show at Untitled Space in New York City featuring artworks that were created in reaction to the current American political climate under Donald Trump’s presidency.
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20 JANUARY – 11 FEBRUARY 2018
New Release, NEW YORK, USA
Swiss art magazine Widewalls has reviewed One Year of Resistance, a group show at Untitled Space in New York City reflecting on the political climate after a year of Donald Trump’s presidency that includes photographic work by Signe Pierce.
Signe Pierce has been profiled by French outlet Libération for her involvement in Virtual Normality – Women Net Artist’s 2.0 at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (article in French).
Jan Soldin of Kunstmarkt has reviewed Virtual Normality – Web Artists 2.0, a new group show at MdbK Leipzig featuring the works of Molly Soda, Arvida Byström and Signe Pierce (article in German).
Sherman Sam’s first solo show in Luxembourg opens today at Ceysson & Benetiere. Entitled Nightclubbing after the eponymous 1981 Grace Jones album, the exhibition includes a selection of Sam’s abstract, ‘assembled’ paintings. “Abstraction can be speculative; it can be uncertain, as life is; it is open to possibility (of interpretations), as life can be,” Sam explains. “It is not a closed form, as some conclude it is. It is not symbolic, least not the kind I am thinking of. That is it can pose or embody flux – open questions in ways that representation cannot.” Nightclubbing will remain on view through 03 March. For more information, click here.
Interview reviews Virtual Normality – Web Artists 2.0: a new group show at MdbK Leipzig featuring works by Signe Pierce and Molly Soda (article in German).
Detektor FM has reviewed Virtual Normality – Web Artists 2.0, an exhibition of women net artists curated by Anika Meier at MdbK Leipzig, including works by Signe Pierce (article in German).
Mittledeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) features the work of Molly Soda and Signe Pierce in a short review of Virtuality Normality – Web Artists 2.0, a group show at MdbK Leipzig.
Spiegel author Angela Gruber writes on Virtual Normality, the upcoming group exhibition at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig featuring the work of artists Signe Pierce, Molly Soda, and Arvida Byström (article in German).
Deutsche Welle reviews Virtual Normality – Women Net Artist’s 2.0, the upcoming group show at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig featuring works by Signe Pierce, Molly Soda, and Arvida Byström among others.
Signe Pierce was interviewed by Hunger TV about her contribution to the upcoming group exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, reflecting critically on the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, on view at Untitled Gallery in New York.
Drool Creatives has listed Cacotopia 02 on their exhibitions page. To see the full posting, click here.
Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to announce that Dominic Dispirito has been shortlisted for the Spring/Summer 2018 Dentons Art Prize. The Dentons Art Prize is a biannual award of £5,000 given to a single artist by an independent panel of judges. Additionally, all shortlisted artists are given access to expert pro bono legal advice and their artwork is offered for sale. Curator Niamh White and artist Tim A. Shaw launched the prize in January 2016. For more information and to see the complete shortlist of artists, please click here.
Girl Talk HQ previews Untitled Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, which will include photographic work by Signe Pierce; the show will survey more than 80 artists responding to the American political climate in the post-Trump era.
ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, the upcoming group show featuring work by Signe Pierce at Untitled Gallery in New York, is the subject of an article by AM NY.
Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley has been interviewed by The Sampler on how intersectionality informs sound and music practices.
Art Fuse has previewed the upcoming group exhibition ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, responding to the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, and featuring work by Signe Pierce.
Molly Soda is interviewed by Happening Media for her involvement in Kickstarter’s new crowdfunding subscription service for emerging artists, Drip. One of the first artists invited to participate in Drip’s launch, Soda says that the new platform “allows people to connect to you and your “process” or whatever it is you want to put out there in a more intimate way.” Read the full article here.
Signe Pierce’s portrait of Aubrey Plaza, included in the 21 August issue of Time Magazine for the story “Aubrey Plaza’s Status Update,” has been selected as one of the best portraits of 2017.
Audrey Wachs reports on the opening of Galeria Melissa, an upscale boutique in New York City designed by Muti Randolph and featuring a video installation by Signe Pierce, for Architects Newspaper.
“Selfie”, 2017, a work created by Olga Fedorova for her solo show Generic Jungle at AKG, is included in the online group exhibition Why don’t we get a kickstarter going for an ISP? hosted by isthisit? Gallery and curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight. The show, staged in the wake of the ‘death’ of net neutrality in the United States, explores the limits of information control and the power associated with corporate grips on digital information pathways. Opening 22 December, the exhibition will run through 22 January 2018 and include artists such as Andy Holden, Ann Hirsch, Constant Dullaart, Eva Papamargariti, and Jacob Kudsk Steensen, among others. For more information and to see the show, click here.
Bushwick Daily writer Darragh Dandurand reports on the opening of Rose Gold, a new cocktail bar in New York built under the creative direction of Signe Pierce and Safwat Riad.
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.