ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY presents a programme of online and VR exhibitions, augmented by invitation-only private events, and occupies a singular position within London’s contemporary art landscape as a commercial gallery dedicated entirely to digital, new-media, and technology-engaged artistic practices.
Unlike institutions or immersive venues that incorporate digital art episodically, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY has embedded digital practice at the core of its curatorial, commercial, and intellectual identity since its inception in 2015.
ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY is delighted to announce ELECTROTEXTURE, a presentation of moving image works by Signe Pierce for UNTITLED Miami Beach 2026. This presentation marks the inaugural offline exhibit of seven short videos curated from the American multimedia ‘reality artist’s’ expansive ongoing series, and the gallery’s first presentation at the fair. Filmed across global cities, each is a portrait of hyperreality, as neon lights are reflected in the surfaces of urban and domestic environments encountered by the artist as she travels. In a premiere for UNTITLED and in honour of the gallery’s mission to democratise digital art collecting, each of the seven artworks is available in a time-limited edition run for the special price of 500 USD with an accompanying still from the work as a print. The ELECTROTEXTURE presentation will also include a daily booth activation of performance conversations by Signe Pierce.
Signe Pierce is a contemporary artist whose extensive oeuvre spans video, performance, installation, writing and music. Concerned with interrogating the rawness of human experience and the impact of digital culture on everyday life, Pierce draws inspiration from Warholian Pop Art aesthetics and the postmodern photographic practices of Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. Taking reality itself as her medium, she mediates it through technical tools, hyperreal technicolour palettes, and digital manipulation and editing. Building on twelve years of collaboration and five solo exhibitions in London, this presentation reflects the close relationship between Pierce’s evolving artistic practice and ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY’s longstanding dedication to championing new-media and technologically engaged art.
As John Berger wrote in Ways of Seeing, “We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.” This understanding of seeing reality as a subjective, relational experience runs throughout Pierce’s practice, and is particularly evident in the ELECTROTEXTURE series, which explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between simulation and reality. Each short video is a record of the ephemerality of visual experience, a fleeting moment of kairos in which light, surface the artist’s body meet in unique alignment, coming alive before disappearing across the panoramic windows of airports or shops, puddles in the street, car bodies and washing machines. These overlooked encounters are discovered, choreographed and manipulated by Pierce, filmed on an iPhone and transformed through digital editing. Drawing on the language of traditional artistic practice, the screen becomes her canvas and the iPhone her paintbrush. Yet the smartphone is more than an artistic tool – it becomes Berger’s mediator between the visible world and our perception of it, transforming light, colour and texture into something at once cinematic and tactile.
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo) Berlin, Germany
!Mediengruppe Bitnik is a post-conceptual artist and hacker duo who work on and with the internet as a medium. Their work engages with many of the core tenets of the post-internet age, in particular challenging notions of surveillance, algorithms, technofascism, internet consumerism and social media interaction. Their practice often crosses over from the digital to affect physical spaces, pushing the limits of software and hardware to challenge established structures and mechanisms.
Selected exhibitions: Fondazione Prada, Milan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
LOUISA CLEMENT
Louisa Clement (b. 1987) Bonn, Germany
Louisa Clemens explores the merging of human presence within the artificial and the artificial within the human. Through photography, video, sculpture, installation and VR, her practice questions physicality and interaction in an age where the virtual has long outgrown its own sphere. Clemens’ work explores the tensions between the potentials of artificial intelligence and machine learning but also the consequential loss of identity and knowledge for wider humanity.
Selected exhibitions: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Ludwig Forum, Aachen; and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo.
MARC LEE
Marc Lee (b. 1969) Zurich, Switzerland
Over the last two decades, Marc Lee has become known for immersive, network-oriented installations experimenting with information and communication technologies. His practice spans interactive installations, media art, internet art, performance, video, augmented reality (AR), VR and mobile apps which enable audiences to collaboratively create the immediate content of the work. He critically engages with the creative, cultural, social, ecological and political concerns of an information society.
Selected exhibitions: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul; ZKM, Karlsruhe; New Museum, New York; Nam June Paik Art Center, South Korea; and HEK, Basel.
Jonas Lund (b. 1984) Amsterdam, Netherlands and London, UK
Across paintings, sculpture, photography, websites, video animation and performances, Jonas Lund critically reflects on contemporary networked systems and power structures. His artistic practice involves creating systems that often require engagement from the viewer, resulting in performative artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. In this way, he questions authorship and artistic agency in an increasingly digital society and also challenges the value-making practices of the art market.
Selected exhibitions: Busan Museum of Art, South Korea; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; New Museum, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Signe Pierce (b. 1988) Los Angeles, California
Signe Pierce is a contemporary artist whose extensive oeuvre spans video, performance, installation, writing and music, often combining them to create immersive experiences. Taking reality itself as her medium, she mediates it through technical tools, hyperreal technicolour palettes, and digital manipulation and editing. Concerned with interrogating the rawness of human experience and the impact of digital culture on everyday life, Pierce’s works highlight the conditions that shape how we see and act in an increasingly technologically mediated society.
Selected exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; and the New Museum, New York.
Karin Sander (b. 1957) Berlin, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland
Across a prolific career spanning almost five decades, Karin Sander’s œuvre encompasses sculpture, performance, architecture, photography and video. As an acclaimed conceptual artist, her work employs existing objects, spaces and environments. Through minimal intervention, such as the simple act of removal or addition, these are transformed to alter perspectives on the familiar and everyday, bring attention to the environment, or to expose the underlying political nature of institutional space.
Selected exhibitions: Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; and Kunstmuseum Basel. In 2023, she also represented Switzerland at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ziyang Wu (b. 1990) Hangzou, China and New York, USA
Ziyang Wu is an artist and curator who examines how current technologies affect society and politics across cultures, both the visible and unseen connections between global systems the ways people encounter them in everyday life. His projects explore algorithmic control and bias, alternative networks and infrastructures, digital labour rights, AI archaeology and world-building. He develops these ideas through cutting-edge media, including animated video, augmented reality, interactive video installations, video games and AI simulations.
Selected exhibitions: M+, Hong Kong; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Rhizome at the New Museum, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
