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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.
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.
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.
Signe Pierce’s exhibition Faux Realities at Annka Kultys Gallery has been featured by Mousse magazine.
Gal-Dem has profiled Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery group show, featuring the work of 20 Black artists, including Daniel Brathwaite-Shirley.
Signe Pierce’s solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Faux Realities has been listed in Wall Street International.
‘Faux Realities’, Signe Pierce’s exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery was reviewed by Eric Iannitti for Unrated.
DAZED writer Ione Gamble has interviewed Signe Pierce on the occasion of her solo show Faux Realities, on view at Annka Kultys Gallery.
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.
Signe Pierce’s exhibition Faux Realities at Annka Kultys Gallery has been previewed by Gowithyamo.
Hunger TV has reviewed Signe Pierce’s solo show, Faux Realities, at Annka Kultys Gallery, questioning what is real in an increasingly simulated world.
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.
Hybrid Layers, a group show exhibited at ZKM in Karlsruhe featuring Rachel de Joode’s work, has been covered by Fluxo.
Ivana Bašić is featured in the May issue of Artforum in Top 10. Read the full article here.
Anne Vieux’s exhibition mesh at AKG is described as “digitally mesmerising” in the Londonist’s Art Review and list of “Things to do today in London”. Read the full article here.
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.
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.
Upper Playground features Anne Vieux’s abstract paintings. Coverage can be found here.
Booooooom features work by Anne Vieux. View all images here.
Ivana Baśič is included in Artspace’s review of ’10 artists to watch this May’. “…for the artist, these sick looking forms … reflect society’s fetishization of the ‘beautiful’, idealised body.” write Loney Abrams and Will Fenstermaker. Read the full article here.
Signe Pierce has been interviewed by Samantha Saiyavongsa for Playboy about how the people who need to see art the most are the people who aren’t in the art world.
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.
Stine Deja spoke to Charlotte Barnard at Traction Magazine about the capitalisation of human emotion in light of her recent show Cyphoria at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Anne Vieux’s exhibition mesh at AKG is mentioned on Mousse Magazine. Read the full article here .
mesh , Anne Vieux’s solo exhibition at AKG, is reported by AQNB. More information can be found here.
Anne Vieux’s mesh as AKG is featured on Galleries Now, with the inclusion of VR 360 degree views of the exhibition. Read the full article here.
Signe Pierce is interviewed by Amar Priganica and Marie-Claire Gagnon for PW-Magazine where they discuss what it means to be alone in the age of global connectivity.
MN Artists features review for the exhibition Andy Warhol: Minnesota Goes Pop by Suzanne Szucs in which she discusses Ziyang Wu’s work The Story of the Pig.
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.
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.
Signe Pierce features in the exhibition Cybercy at the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, Colorado.
Stine Deja’s exhibition Cyphoria at Annka Kultys Gallery is described as “surreal and imaginative” in FAD Magazine’s list of top 7 art exhibitions to see in London this week.
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 .
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.
Art Rabbit has named Cyphoria among the top picks of contemporary art not to miss in London this month.
Cyphoria, Stine Deja’s current exhibition at AKG, is mentioned in Wall Street International.
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.
Cyphoria, Stine Deja’s current exhibition of “slick video animations” at Annka Kultys, is reported in Time Out.
Signe Pierce has been reviewed in Purple Art in relation to her debut solo exhibition Virtual Normality in Vienna.
Stine Deja’s Cyphoria, the current exhibition at Annka Kultys, is described as “a metaphysical travel agency, offering to transport the viewer to an unrestrained plethora of destinations beyond the limitations of the physical body” by the contemporary art platform Anti-Utopias.
Stine Deja’s current exhibition, Cyphoria, at Annka Kultys was described by Dino Bonacic for Because Magazine as “travel into a cyber world of satire and absurdity” .
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.
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 published an article about the book ‘Pics or It Didn’t Happen: Images Banned From Instagram‘ by 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.
Galleries Now has named Concrete Jungle in the “Six to See this Weekend.” Read the full article here.
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.
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.
Hyperallergic includes Ivana Baśič in its most memorable art at this year’s NADA New York. Baśič’s work Stay inside or perish, 2016 is described as ‘elegant yet rife with trauma’. Read the full article here.
Molly Soda and Arvida Byström new book ‘Pics or It Didn’t Happen, Images Banned from Instagram’ is now available. Featuring photographs that have been banned from Instagram, this generously illustrated book explores modern censorship. Purchase the book here.
1 GRANARY’s Alice Bell mentions Ziyang Wu’s The Story of the Pig in a review of the group exhibition Wavelength, curated by Liya Liu.
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.
AQNB reported on Concrete Jungle, the recent exhibition at AKG. Read the full article here.
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.
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.
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.
Artnet News lists the group show at The Hole featuring work by Ziyang Wu in a roundup of art exhibitions to see during New York Fashion Week. The exhibition, WAVELENGTH II: New Consumerism was curated by Yi Wang and combined works of art in fashion in questions of sustainability and authenticity.
Signe Pierce was interviewed by Nylon magazine in relation to her upcoming exhibitions with Annka Kultys Gallery and Nathalie Halgand Galerie in Vienna, and her recent collaboration with rapper Big Sean.
Ivana Basic is interviewed in relation to her two-person exhibition Miserere Paraphrase at Holiday Forever, New York. Read the article here.
Cacotopia, the current exhibition at AKG, has been selected as FAD’s Top five Exhibitions to see in London. “A new show every week in this five week exhibition. I got to lie on a bed and watch a hypnotic saccharine video, while this coming week the gallery will be turned into a yoga studio. All shows are on the theme of a utopia that has an underside to it” reviewer Tabish Khan writes. Read the article here.
‘”Bodies for a future Yet to Come,”Jesse Bandler Firestone reviews Ivana Basic, for D/Railed. The show remains on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery until 4 February 2017. Read the full review here.
Gretchen Andrew talks to Whitewall about the future of virtual reality.
Giulia Ponzano chose Cacotopia, as one of her must-see shows in London. More information can be found here.
Molly Soda is featured the the second issue of Gemini Magazine. Order it now here.
Cacotopia was reported by Bluoin Artinfo. The author writes, “The works deal with a collective contemporary anxiety, interspersed with elements of fantasy as coping mechanism.” Read the full article here.
Nicole Kaack mentions Ivana Basic in the exhibition review “Miguel Angel Cárdenas Without a Body at Andrea Rosen“. The author writes: “Ivana Bašić sees defeat in the failures of the body itself”. Read the full review here.
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.
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.
Cacotopia, the exhibition at AKG has been listed by Aesthetica as “Five to see this week-end“. The author writes “In Cacotopia, collective cultural anxieties are placed amongst elements of fantasy in a disorientating relationship between reality and fiction.” More information can be found here.
I-D Vice has named Molly Soda one of the “10 Artists on the Art They Want to See in 2017.” Writer Charlotte Jansen notes “Her second solo exhibition at Annka Kultys gallery in East London, ‘Comfort Zone’, at the end of 2016 featured 18 hours of photobooth footage, as well as new resin sculptures of bedroom clutter and beauty paraphernalia.” Read the full article here.
The group exhibition Cacotopia at Annka Kultys Gallery is reviewed in ORGAN. The author writes “a show to return to and engage with over the next few weeks”. Read the full review here.
Ivana Bašić is mentioned as “among ones to watch in 2017” by the Calvert Journal. Read the full review here.
AQNB has written about Cacotopia, our upcoming group exhibition “Five Artists in Five Weeks for ‘Cacotopia’“. Read the full article here.
Annie Rose, editor at Posture Media, interviews Signe Pierce in a conversation focusing on the artist’s aesthetic, influences and femininity.
Ivana Basic is participating in a group show Without a Body. Curated by Signal at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. The exhibition runs 6 January – 4 February 2017.
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.
young space has interviewed Aaron Scheer about the meaning of painting in the digital age.
Ivana Baśič is named as one of the 17 Emerging Artists to Watch in 2017 by Artsy. View the full list here.
Molly Soda talks about her work, art and the Internet with Darcie Wilder at MTV podcasts. Listen to the podcast here.
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.
In a round-up of Satellite Art Show in Miami, writer Sarah Cascone mentions Signe Pierce’s installation Entropical Getaway in collaboration with Castor Gallery.
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.
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.
Molly Soda’s Comfort Zone on view at AKG is featured on This is Tomorrow. Read the full article here.
A conversation between Gretchen Andrew and Curating the Contemporary’s editor, Elisa Giorgi.
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.
Viollette Collective interviews Molly Soda via Skype. Listen to the full interview here.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Molly Soda’s solo show, Comfort Zone, has been reviewed by Blouin ArtInfo’s Amanda Avery. You can find the full article here.
Gretchen Andrew’s exhibition HOW TO HOW TO HOW TO at arebyte gallery has been featured in Rhizome Magazine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.