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Vanessa Feder reviews Olga Fedorova’s solo exhibition Generic Jungle. Describing the surreal quality of the works, Feder writes: “A visually stimulating mesh of everything bizarre, sterile, erotic, simple, complex, uncomfortable and absurd, her lenticular imagery forces an audience to enter new dimensions and come out feeling all types of ways.” Generic Jungle is on view at Annka Kultys Gallery through 16 December. Read the full review here.
Galleries Now features Generic Jungle, Olga Fedorova’s upcoming solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery. This will be Fedorova’s first solo presentation in the United Kingdom, on view from 16 November – 16 December. For more information, click here.
Christian Petersen has included Signe Pierce and Alli Coates’ work, American Reflexxxx, in his Web Wednesday review of the Wrong Biennale.
AQNB lists Olga Fedorova’s upcoming solo show, Generic Jungle, at Annka Kultys Gallery. Opening 16 November, the show will run until 16 December. See the full feature here.
Wall Street International features Generic Jungle, Olga Fedorova’s solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery. Generic Jungle will be on view from 16 November – 16 December. To see the listing, click here.
Sherman Sam is included in James Harvey Kelly’s candid photo series for Drake’s. Entitled “Studio Shirts,” the series captures artists in their studios wearing Drake’s Shirting. Sam appears alongside artists including Filippo Carramazza, Adam Dant, Benjamin Deakin and Lothar Getz, among others. See the full series here.
FORGE. Art Mag announces group show including work by Molly Soda. Entitled “CURRENTS”, the show will run from 9 November – 13 December at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, click here.
Time Out London reports on Olga Fedorova’s upcoming show at Annka Kultys Gallery. Entitled Generic Jungle, the show will include a range of the artist’s lenticular pictures. For the full details of the show, visit Time Out here.
Molly Soda will be featured in the inaugural edition of a new web series by long-time PBS program American Masters entitled Inspiring Woman. Including 6 female “innovative powerhouses,” the series showcases exemplary women making radical changes in their fields. Since 1986, American Masters has profiled artists of the likes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Ella Fitzgerald and Maya Angelou, earning 28 Emmy Awards and 72 additional nominations. Molly Soda’s episode will air on December 20 on PBS.org. For more information, click here.
Redhawk Radio profiles “Internet Darling” Molly Soda in anticipation of her 10 November performance alongside Told Slant, Yowler and Marjorie Lee at Oxford’s Kofenya Coffee in Miami. For more information about the performance, and to read the full profile, click here.
Writer Bee Beardsworth has just reviewed Candy, Dominic Dispirito’s dual-show with Christina BanBan at The Dot Project in London. She writes: “If Candy…were a sweet, it would be a gobstopper: a cacophony of bright, childlike colours slowly dissolving to reveal layer after layer of thought-provoking messages and meaning.” You can find the full review here.
Signe Pierce has been interviewed by Alice Bucknell in her latest editorial for Artsy, “A Brief History of the Color Pink,” which traces the history of the rosy shade.
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.”
Drool Creatives features Olga Fedorova’s upcoming solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, Generic Jungle. The artist’s first solo show at the gallery, Generic Jungle will feature an array of the artist’s 3-D lenticular pictures. The show will run from 16 November through 16 December. For more information, click here.
Contemporary Art Society, London’s first and most popular gallery bus tour, which takes place throughout the year, will tour Annka Kultys Gallery on the afternoon of 4 November as part of its East London program.
EMPTY VESSELS || VULNERABLE BODIES
3 NOVEMBER – 30 NOVEMBER 2017
ONLINE PAVILION, DIGITAL BIENNIAL
Olga Fedorova’s upcoming exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Generic Jungle, is featured on Galleries Now. Containing an array of the artist’s 3D lenticular prints, Generic Jungle will run from 16 November through 16 December. See the full listing here.
Christopher Clary, in collaboration with Eyebeam, has included works by Amalia Soto (Molly Soda) and Signe Pierce in his exhibition SAFE for the Wrong Biennale. Probing the concept of safe space in networked culture, the show asks questions about the validity and expression of trauma online. To view the online exhibition, click here.
Sid Smith and Jim Bicknell-Knight’s online pavilion, The 15 Cmdments, includes an original work by Molly Soda. Inspired by the Apple computer keyboard shortcut Command-S (save function), Soda’s work HUGE! GIF HAUL! (2017) imitates the style of popular YouTube haul videos as the artist displays recent additions to her desktop GIF hoard. To view the online exhibition and Soda’s work, click here.
Anne Vieux will present a new work in the Skybridge Project Space at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York. On view through November 12, the immersive painting will create an environment for the viewer to engage with the work an altered space. Elsewhere writes, “Like a kind of self-contained viewing station, Vieux stages each component to envelope the viewer into a luminescent painting of tonal hues.” For more information, click here.
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.
Works by Ivana Basic will be included in the group show, All the Names, at Scrap Metal Gallery in Toronto. Running from 27 October 2017 – 10 March 2018, All the Names will also include works by Christian Boltanski, Tracey Emin and Liz Magor, among others. For more information, click here.
Olga Fedorova’s upcoming solo-exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Generic Jungle, is featured in Keen On Exhibitions PostHuman Bodies section. See the full listing here.
WWD has announced that Signe Pierce will be included in a line up of artists participating in a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
Images from Molly Soda’s photo series Comfort Zone have been selected for Photography on a Postcard’s latest edition. For more information about this project, and to read Art on a Postcard’s blog post about Soda, click here.
!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.
Elephant’s Charlotte Jansen visits Molly Soda’s studio and interviews her about her work space, her practice, and the current state of digital affairs and data archiving. Soda says: “Watching the Internet rot and websites turn into graveyards is really pushing me to try and do as much as I can to save things, and if I can’t save them, find ways to rebuild or reimagine them.” Check out the full interview here.
Neowin has mentioned The Glass Room’s pop-up exhibition Looking into Your Online Life, featuring !Mediengruppe Bitnik videos.
Something Curated has written a round-up of the “5 Art Prizes and Awards to Know About,” mentioning Dominic Dispirito, winner of the 2017 Adrian Caruthers Studio Award. You can find the full article here.
Dominic Dispirito is listed by the Culture Trip as one of “17 Up-and-Coming Artists on Instagram Who Could Make You Rich.” Take a look at the full list here.
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.”
Artist and writer Holly Watkins has profiled Dominic Dispirito, with whom she recently collaborated with. Describing his work flow, she writes: “Dominic had a unique way of working, he showed me that most of his imagery is first created on his phone. He then uses an airbrush to recreate the effect on a larger scale.” You can read her full piece here.
Parisian Galerie Pact announces upcoming group show featuring works by Ivana Bašić. The show, titled Tu es Métamorphose (You are Metamorphosis) will run from 19 October 2017 through January 2018. For more information, visit the Galerie Pact site here.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik’s first solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Are You Online Now? has been reported in Wall Street International.
VICELAND programme SLIDESHOW has interviewed Signe Pierce about her series Faux Realities (2017), which recently showed at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Elliott Burns has interviewed Aaron Scheer about his favourite artists and inspirations.
Artist and writer John Bingham has just published an interview with Dominic Dispirito on his blog. Describing the subject matter of his work, Dispirito says: “I’m interested in contemporary technologies and their sociological impact, the relationship between human and machine and the virtual world and the real world.” You can read the full interview here.
Molly Soda is interviewed by podcast Humor and the Abject about “selfie feminism in hindsight, her recent solo exhibitions […]perceptions of sincerity and honesty in her work, isolation, aesthetic and interface evolutions in social media, how we actively present ourselves for internet audiences, and shitposting.” Listen to the full conversation here.
Signe Pierce is included in an article by Anika Meier about the practice of Instagram artists published by Der Standard (article in German).
!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.
It was just announced that Molly Soda will perform in group show Virtually Real alongside Aquama on 20 October 2017. The show, curated by Nicole Ruggiero and Terrell Davis, will take place at VR World in New York City. More information can be found here.
Recent Slade MFA graduate Dominic Dispirito has been included in a new dual-show with Christina BanBan entitled Candy at The Dot Project in London. The show, which grapples with how to navigate a world saturated by consumerism, digital imagery, humour and the struggle of everyday life, will run through 26 November. You can find more information here.
Annka Kultys Gallery is deeply disturbed to read this report in BBC Newsbeat about the hostility and threats of rape that artist Arvida Byström received following her participation in an Adidas ad campaign. Read the full story here.
Stine Deja: There’s Life Outside is featured as one of Galleries Now top exhibition recommendations in today’s Frieze London Special edition of The Weekender.
Stine Deja spoke to Tank Magazine about her second solo exhibition There’s Life Outside at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Amadeus Magazine has written a glowing review of Candy, Dominic Dispirito’s dual show with Christina BanBan at The Dot Project. They write: “Dispirito focuses on subjective human states of being. His subject matter is isolated and reduced, becoming the focus for painterly exercises in color, volume and style.” You can read the full review here.
Stine Deja There’s Life Outside, is featured in Wall Street International Art.
Ivana Bašić is included in D360’s 7 emerging artists to watch. To see the full list, click here.
Ivana Basic is on view at the Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany as part of the exhibition Immortalimus. The exhibition is on view at Kunstverein Freiburg 15 September – 29 October 2017. More information can be found here.
Annka Kultys Gallery’s booth, featuring an installation by Stine Deja and a performance-installation by Marie Munk, at Art Code Fair in Denmark was mentioned in Kunstkritikk’s review of the event (article in Danish).
Dominic Dispirito, one of the recent MFA graduates included in the upcoming group show Cacotopia 02 at Annka Kultys Gallery, is profiled by Dylan Jones in the September issue of British GQ. To read the full profile, click here (page 152).
Stine Deja’s Cyphoria (2015) is given an in-depth analysis in Simone Rossi’s piece, “On Post-Human: tomorrow will become female,” included in the Issue 05 of Cactus Digitale.
Art Maze International’s critic, Christina Nafziger, has reviewed Signe Pierce’s exhibition Faux Realites.
Molly Soda is in conversation with KPISS.FM. Listen to the full interview here.
Signe Pierce’s work is on show at ‘The Future of Her’ by Galeria Melissa in New York.
AQNB interviews Damian Griffiths about the ‘] [‘ group show at Annka Kultys Gallery. “What I hope the audience gets from this exhibition is that nothing is given, everything has intention. The walls might be painted white but they are not invisible. The documentation of the show may be natural but it is not neutral.” Read the full interview here.
Stine Deja’s work is included in “And if I left off dreaming about you?”, a group exhibition at Polignano a Mare’s Like A Little Disaster open from 18 June to 18 August 2017.
Congratulations to Dominic Dispirito, who has been selected as the winner of the 2017-2018 Adrian Caruthers Studio Award! The prize, allocated to one final-year MA student from The Slade School of Fine Art, offers a free studio for one year, a cash bursary, mentoring and the opportunity to work with a partner gallery towards an exhibition or public project. For more information, click here.
Tabitha Steinberg interviews Anne Vieux on FAD and asks her about her work and recent exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery. Elaborating on the show’s title Mesh, Vieux states, “I was thinking about the barrier between screens and the body as one layer of mesh, as well as the architecture of the gallery as a mesh. The more I thought about mesh, I was able to structure ideas around mediation, the body, femininity.” Read the full interview here.
A screening of Molly Soda’s video ‘Come to my Window’ will be featured as part of ‘Electronic Civil Disobedience: Phobias and Fantasies’ at Res, London on 9 July 2017. Find details of the event here.
China Xinhua News interviews Damian Griffiths, curator of ] [ at Annka Kultys Gallery. Griffiths discusses the group show, his curatorial concept and stand-out pieces in the exhibition. Watch the full video here.
Stine Deja’s work ‘Self-Service’ was featured in the programme “you and I are like that red wall, it’s a good idea in theory but somehow it doesn’t quite work” curated by Jade Annaw and Emily Simpson at CBS Gallery in Liverpool. The screening, accompanied by two physical works, occurred simultaneously with an online exhibition by the same title on isthisit. Visit the online exhibition here.
In concurrence with her first solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, Monopol has profiled ‘reality artist’ Signe Pierce (article in German).
Molly Soda releases a new video commission for Italian magazine StaiZitta entitled Hole in My Bucket, 2017. The video can be found here.
Writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent has reviewed the group show ] [ . He writes, “It’s primary appeal is the quality of work tending to deconstruct the body, and hence physical presence…” Read the full review here.
Molly Soda’s new video for the band Blanket, I Wish All Roses Were Microphones, 2017 is now online. Watch the full video here.
Aesthetica Magazine has reviewed Signe Pierce’s first solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery, Faux Realities.
FAD has named Signe Pierce’s show at Annka Kultys Gallery as one of the “Top 8 Art Exhibitions to see this week in London.”
Signe Pierce’s exhibition Faux Realities at Annka Kultys Gallery was included in Londonist’s Things To Do Today in London: Friday 23 June, 2017.
Signe Pierce’s exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery has been reviewed by Alice Bucknell for This is Tomorrow.
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.