Paul’s Gallery of the Weekend | Art critic and curator Paul Carey-Kent highlights Annka Kultys Gallery in his weekly selection for FAD. He notes: ‘ This is the tenth anniversary year of Annka Kultys’ eponymous gallery, and over the decade the Swiss gallerist has developed a forward-looking and distinctive position as a physical gallery that emphasises the digital, through both the gallery programme and extensive online offerings.’

The physical gallery currently features another favourite of mine: Bonn-based Louisa Clement presents an artificially-generated church sermon, as found in Korea; and a striking 100-panel installation featuring abstracting close-up shots of her body, over which she has lasered her own texts addressing how, in her words, ‘our facts become more blurred than ever before’, exacerbated by how ‘the AI continue to generate texts from themselves’, such that the associated ‘loss of knowledge in the body is a central theme of our time’. →  

Jonas Lund’s booth at NADA Miami 2024 selected amoung three best booth by The Wall Street Journal. In the article ‘Pleasing if Placid Waters’ the author Brian P. Kelly notes: ‘The usually eye-catching art fair had plenty of solid work, but only a handful of truly standout presentations. Annka Kultys Gallery’s booth with conceptual works by Jonas Lund delicately balanced humor and seriousness in its exploration of the benefits and potential downsides of new advances. His AI-animated video imagined a dystopian existence where artificial intelligence holds the promise of immortality and what that means both for humanity and the companies that wield the tools of its future..’ →

Sasha Stiles on how technology renews our relationship with storytelling’ by Katie Peyton Hofstadter. The writer notes: ‘By collaborating with an AI that is based on various machine-learning models and customized with training materials such as her own poetry, voice, notes, and research materials, Stiles envisions a future for poetry that honors the medium’s timeless traditions, while also leveraging the creative potential and the distribution mechanisms of technocapitalism.’ →

J.J Charlesworth reviews Jonas Lund’s solo exhibition ‘In The Middle of Nowhere II’ at Annka Kultys Gallery for the Art Review, critically evaluating the artwork’s commentary on human relationships with AI within an economic context.The writer explains that Lund subverts the generic anxiety attached to these evolving technologies: ‘It’s not that generative AI is getting to be as good as human creativity, but that much human creativity produces artworks that are rote’. →

Sasha Stiles was recently interviewed by Tina Rivers Ryan for the ARTFORUM. Over the past year, Kalmyk American poet Sasha Stiles has become the public face of the burgeoning world of poetry NFTs. In her interview ‘Transcending digital dualism through networked poetry’ Sasha Stiles notes: ’I’ve been saying for a long time that poetry is code, and vice versa. All poets throughout history have used algorithm in the form of pattern and syntax to evoke feelings, call up memories, and achieve some kind of poetic immortality.’ →

Mimi Nguyen interviewed Robert Alice, Simon Denny, Carolina Mostert (Sotheby’s), Arthur Breitman (Tezos), and Annka Kultys (Annka Kultys Gallery) for Right Click Save, the first online magazine fully dedicated to drive critical conversation about art on the blockchain. Annka Kultys noted: ‘ It is essential that NFT art is contextualized within art history and its collectorship expanded to the traditional art world. Even today, there remains very little writing about the content of NFT art, though new publications are finally emerging to fill this void.’ →

The Financial Times has mentioned Annka Kultys Gallery as one of an “eclectic mix of early adopters” to have embraced digital art in an article on how London has become a crypto-art capital, written by Alex Estorick. The article explains the rise of London as an epicentre of the recent digital boom, within which digital art and boundary-breaking creative initiatives can flourish. →

Rachel de Joode, Berlin-based multimedia artist, has spoken to The Art Newspaper about her new works on show at Annka Kultys Gallery, interviewed by Olivia Gavoyannis. The author Olivia Gavoyannis notes: « De Joode’s focus on the interplay between the physical and the virtual is evident in the process behind the abstract paintings currently on show at Soft, her new exhibition at the Annka Kultys Gallery in London. » →