Signe Pierce has sat down for a candid interview with Ralph Arida of Plastik Magazine to discuss the current state of pop culture and fine art.
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Signe Pierce has sat down for a candid interview with Ralph Arida of Plastik Magazine to discuss the current state of pop culture and fine art.
Signe Pierce has been commissioned by Fräulein to contribute an image for an article on contemporary floral photography (article in German).
Galleries Now features Márton Nemes solo exhibition at ANNKA KULTYS Gallery, Ghosting Love.
Signe Pierce has been interviewed on the “Tales of Taboo” podcast series about living in the Matrix, the perks of being ‘lowbrow,’ and how to use overt sexuality to communicate intellect (if you want).
Gretchen Andrew is featured in a DAZED article by Gunseli Yalcinkaya.
BBZ. BLK. BK. have interviewed Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley to coincide with the 2019 Alternative Graduate showcase.
Mousse Magazine features a review of the group exhibition Quid est veritas? curated by Anton Svyatsky at ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY.
Gretchen Andrew has been recently featured in an article for WePresent.
Marc Lee’s 10.000 Moving Cities, exhibited as part of a Freisinger Schafhof exhibition, has been mentioned in an article analysing the show’s urbanity, globalization and the contradiction of analogue and virtual worlds (article in German).
Signe Pierce has been interviewed by Alice Bucknell in MOUSSE Magazine, where the writer and artist discuss Pierce’s self-definition as a ‘reality artist’ in an increasingly digital and virtual field, on the occasion of her new show at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Ziyang Wu’s The Last Subway, Included in the group exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, is mentioned in Julia Davies roundup of must-see art exhibitions in Philadelphia.
Aaron Scheer has been interviewed by gallerytalk.net about early experiments with his parents’ printer and criticising the zeitgeist (article in German).
TIME has published a detailed survey of Ai-Da and her artistic practice.
Signe Pierce’s new essay, “15 Million Minutes of Fame”, exploring the role of art in our current era of hyperconnection, has been published on Bauhaus 100 in the occasion of the art movement and school’s centenary.
Coinciding with Stine Deja’s last installation in the Danish sports center Holbæk Sportsby, the editors Rikke Luna and Matias from I Do Art.dk reveal the challenges Deja encountered when perceiving the project, and the research opportunities of exhibiting in such a peculiar, unexpected setting (article in Danish).
Frieze’s editor Dan Fox wrote an article about Ai-Da, after his participation in the unveiling of the AI humanoid artist in Oxford, UK.
In an interview for Musée Magazine, Signe Pierce has spoken with Lara Pan about her video works and series of distorted, liquid selfies, as well as her mantra “I’ll do anything for art”.
Ai-Da Robot has been featured in an Artsy blog post about her process.
Artnet has featured an article on Ai-Da’s exhibition Unsecured Futures at Oxford University, as well as an in-depth interview with her creators.
Widewalls has interviewed Ai-Da Robot’s creator, Aidan Meller, about the significance of the first humanoid robot artist..
Artforum writes on the recipients of the Macdowell Award Fellowship including Ziyang Wu.
On the occasion of their nomination for the Remmen Foundation Art Prize 2019 for Synthetic Seduction, their show at Annka Kultys Gallery in March 2018, Stine Deja and Marie Munk have been featured by Stine Hansen as “tomorrow’s stars in the arts” (article in Danish).
The Los Angeles Magazine’s Catherine Womack features Gretchen Andrew in an article during Frieze Los Angeles 2019.
On the occasion of her solo exhibition REFLEXXXIONS at EIGEN + ART Lab in Berlin, Signe Pierce has been interviewed by the German, online magazine mus.er.me.ku (article in German).
“A compelling show that’s hard to leave” Organ Thing reviews Marc Lee’s Non-Places at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Gretchen Andrew talks to Medium Magazine about optimising search results for diversity and visualising hope.
Molly Soda’s new video game titled Wrong Box has been featured as one of the 10 best games of the Game Developers Conference 2019 in Paste Magazine article.
Li Qiong discusses immersive digital art in relation to contemporary spiritualism, mentioning Ziyang Wu’s artwork Fantasy city at Wangfu Central in Beijing for CGTN.
Elephant features Dominic Dispirito’s She’s lost her marbles is featured as their image of the day from the exhibition “Pie ‘n’ Mash” at ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY.
A new article on Design Your Trust explores Signe Pierce’s use of Instagram and of her characteristic neon, hyper-saturated aesthetic.
The LA Times interviews Gretchen Andrew about hacking the Frieze art fair.
Gretchen Andrew is featured in The Los Angeles Times.
V Magazine editor Hannah Hightman has featured Molly Soda in the publication, on the occasion of the release of her new videogame titled Wrong Box.
Matt Stromberg from Hyperallergic writes about Gretchen Andrew’s latest online performance on the occasion of Frieze Los Angeles.
Caroline Goldstein writes a dedicated article in Artnet News on Gretchen Andrew’s work during Frieze Los Angeles 2019.
Not for Real has written an article on the collaboration between Flora Miranda and Signe Pierce (article in German).
Signe Pierce and Alli Coates’ American Reflexxx (2013) has been the subject of an article on The Devi, which investigates its continuing importance over 5 years later.
Aaron Scheer has been interviewed by Painting at the End of the World about the techno-religious cult of Silicon Valley and how losing all the works on his hard drive inspired him to be a better artist.
Rochester Art Center’s Art(ists) on the Verge 9 exhibition featuring work by Ziyang Wu is listed as one of ‘the year’s best Twin Cities art exhibitions’ by the Star Tribune.
Rui Lin’s exhibition, included in the second week of CACOTOPIA 03, was reviewed by Sean Worrall in Organ Thing.
Stine Deja’s series of videos Hard Core, Soft Body has been featured in Pylon Hub on the occasion of her recent installation at Schimmel Projects Art Centre, Dresden.
Wall Street International has featured Aaron Scheer’s first solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Gretchen Andrew collaborates with Imperica Magazine to talk about how Google exacerbates the Internet’s sexism.
Marton Nemes’ exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, part of Cacotopia 03, has been reviewed by Sean Worrall at Organ Thing.
Yumiko Sakuma has written an article for Numero TOKYO’s 127th issue that speaks about Signe Pierce and her oeuvre as a reality artist (article in Japanese).
Katharina Hoi has reviewed Artificial Paradise for Kulturwoche, a group show at the KM Künstlerhaus featuring work from Olga Fedorova, writing that the lenticular prints “appear three-dimensional due to the tilting effect” (article in German).
The Washington Post has reviewed the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition Eye to I: Self-Portraits From 1900 to Today, which includes the video work by Molly Soda Who’s Sorry Now.
Magali Nachtergael has written an article titled Vue sur chambre for Simone, an annual newspaper, in which the author profiles and compares Molly Soda with Amalia Ulman (article in French).
Wall Street International has featured Impressions, Jillian Mayer’s first solo exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Olga Fedorova’s digital artworks have been disseminated in an article by VIVISXN DIGITAL, an alternative news and culture portal.
Jonathan Weinel at Oxford University Press has written a paper in which Gretchen Andrew is mentioned.
Gallerist Nathalie Halgand spotlights Signe Pierce as the next rising star in the art world in an interview with Office Magazine.
Artnet News has reviewed the The Museum of Pizza’s pop up exhibition, including Signe Pierce and Emma Stern’s Pizza Vortex, calling it “a wild 3-D animation projected and reflected in mylar mirrors, famous sculptures and pop culture icons swirling around in a portal that opens up into pizzas past, present, and future”.
VICE has reviewed the The Museum of Pizza’s pop up exhibition, including Signe Pierce and Emma Stern’s Pizza Vortex, labelling it “a hypnotic 3D-animated pizza tunnel that ricochets off the walls of the reflective room that encases it”.
Mousse Magazine has featured Short Term Memories, Olga Fedorova’s second solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery.
Signe Pierce’s performative contribution A glitch in the echo chamber of big sister’s cave to ANTI, the 6th Athens Biennale, has been featured on Daily Lazy.
Olga Fedorova’s current exhibition Short Term Memories has been featured on TZVETNIK.
Paul Carey-Kent mentioned Olga Fedorova’s exhibition ‘Short Term Memories’ on his Instagram account.
The Selfridges Eye, a monthly round-up of us news, future trends and awe-inspiring innovations in the world of art and culture, has featured Olga Fedorova’s current exhibition at Annka Kultys Gallery, Short Term Memories.
BOUND, was reviewed by Rodrigo Canete in ANTHROPOFAGICO “Dominic Dispirito’s Attitude Problems, Alex Urie’s Banal Trendiness And James Tailor’s Monumental Gay ‘Modernism’ On Show At Peer Gallery In Hoxton”. The complete review can be found here.
Irina Papadimitriou shares the news of the publication of Search Engine Art, a collaborative project between Gretchen Andrew and Digital Futures.
It’s Nice That has spoken to Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley on using work as self-help, the importance of sound and music to her artistic production, and the terms of inclusion for Black trans people in video games.
Multimedia artists Signe Pierce and Emma Stern have contributed a “Pizza Vortex,” a fluorescent black-light room featuring a 3-D video installation, to the The Museum of Pizza, scheduled to be open from 13 – 28 October 2018.
Wall Street International has featured Short Term Memories, Olga Fedorova’s second solo exhibition at AKG. Implicit in the show is the idea of memory, asking what imprint the human race will leave on earth after it inevitably passes away.. You can find Wall Street International‘s listing here.
Olga Fedorova’s current exhibition Short Term Memories is featured on Galleries Now. See the feature here.
artnet News mentions Molly Soda in an article about young artists’ strategies to get attention and sponsorship outside their gallery space. The author writes: “While making compelling artworks online is certainly a great way to garner a large and dedicated following, it’s not exactly the road to riches. So it makes perfect sense that Soda would make an account on Drip to ask her followers for financial support in exchange for her content”. Read the article here.
Frieze has featured a photograph of Olga Fedorova’s White dog as promotion for the exhibition Artificial Paradise? Immersion in Space and Time at The Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien in Austria. To see the feature, click here.
Time Out has featured Short Term Memories, Olga Fedorova’s second solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery. The artist uses 3D digital rendering software to create deeply unsettling cyber women/mannequins that inhabit various imagined spaces. To check out the listing, click here.
DROOL Creatives has featured Short Term Memories, Olga Fedorova’s second solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery. The exhibition features three large scale prints on glass, a video on a new type of transparent glass screen that the artist has developed, and three granite sculptures. To check out the listing, click here.
Gretchen Andrew speaks to Artillery Magazine about infiltrating Google Images with her paintings.
Leipziger Volkszeitung has mentioned Signe Pierce and Molly Soda in a piece on the group exhibition Virtual Normality: Netzkünstlerinnen 2.0 at the MdbK in Leipzig in which both artists feature (article in German).
AKG Summer exhibition Terms and Conditions May Apply artists Shamus Clisset, Marion Balac, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Alyssa Davis, Tom Galle, Moises Sanabria and Jillian Mayer have been asked five questions by DATEAGLEART about their work on view at the gallery. Read the interviews here.
AKG Summer exhibition Terms and Conditions May Apply curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight is featured on Tzvetnik. The exhibition features Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Marion Balac, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Patrick Colhoun, Shamus Clisset, Alyssa Davis, Tom Galle, James Irwin, Jason Isolini, Jillian Mayer, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Moises Sanabria, Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, Owen Thackeray and Addie Wagenknecht. More information can be found here.
AKG Summer exhibition Terms and Conditions May Apply is featured on Galleries Now. See the feature here.
DROOL Creatives has featured AKG Summer exhibition Terms and Conditions May Apply curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight. The exhibition will include sculptures, videos, simulations, drawings, paintings and prints from 15 national and international artists. To check out the listing, click here.
Signe Pierce has been featured in an i-D article on contemporary culture’s obsession with neon across all forms of visual culture.
The Steidz has reviewed Data Dating at Galerie Charlot, featuring works from !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Adam Basanta, Addie Wagenknecht, Jeroen van Loon, John Yuyi, Moises Sanabria, Olga Fedorova, Pablo Garcia, Thomas Israël, Tom Galle, Zach Gage. Henri Guette writes that Olga Fedorova’s works “can allow us to reinvest loneliness”. To read the full review, click here.
Synthetic Seduction was reviewed by Indira Béraud in Widewalls.
Aaron Scheer has been interviewed about his practice during a studio visit by Dataeagle.art.
During a recent studio visit, DATEAGLEART got behind the frustrations of Dominic Dispirito, and discussed how his art can be used for positive change. The artist portrays authentic experiences of growing up in a British working-class environment, and believes that this topic is not being spoken about enough. Read the full interview here.
Dominic Dispirito’s first solo exhibition with AKG In the Garden, Council Housed and Violent is featured on Mousse magazine. The exhibition is on view at AKG through Saturday 28 July 2018. See the complete feature here.
Digital Objects has just published an interview with Molly Soda, who has recently been chosen as Digital Objects’ featured artist. Speaking about the site specificity of digital native content, Soda says: “Nothing will ever capture the full scope of interacting with something online. I’ve always felt that my work is best viewed from the comfort of your own home via your personal device. The work is about the Internet and needs to live on the Internet and evolve with the changing landscape, the comments, and the eventual decline of certain websites.” You can find the full interview here.
Gretchen Andrew writes a paper published with The British Computer Society on the extent to which bias is entrenched in Google’s search results.
Drip has just posted a new article and video interview with Molly Soda on Medium. In the interview, Soda discusses the role of audience engagement in her work, and how important it is for her to receive positive feedback. You can find the full interview here.
For the second month in a row, an Annka Kultys Gallery exhibition has been selected as one of Hackney Citizen’s top East End Exhibitions. Making an interesting connection between the current show, Dominic Dispirito’s In the Garden, Council Housed and Violent, and the previous show, Molly Soda’s Me and My Gurls, the author Andrew Barnes writes: “Annka Kultys Gallery is hosting another digital artist whose work would be literally unimaginable mere decades ago. Where Soda utilised her internet presence to bring viewers inside her personal Panopticon, Dominic Dispirito is concerned with how others are viewed and vilified, namely the British ‘chav.’” In the Garden, Council Housed and Violent will remain on view through 28 July. You can read the full article here.
A work by Molly Soda is included in the sixth edition of Carriage Trade’s exhibition and benefit auction Social Photography. Exploring the ways in which mobile photography has developed from a novelty feature of flip phones to a critical function by which smart phones serve as recorders of our daily lives, the show examines the role of cell phone photography in modern society. Other participants in the exhibition include Tracey Emin, Dan Graham and Hal Foster, among many more. Social Photography VI will open at Carriage Trade in New York City on 10 July. For more information and to purchase prints of Soda’s work online, click here.
Broadly/VICE has published a new feature by Signe Pierce, which also includes a new series of digitally-manipulated photographs by the artist straddling the divide between technology and biology.
Marie Munk has been interviewed by Interalia Magazine about her practice, her Magic Wand performance at Code Art Fair and her dual-exhibition with Stine Deja, Synthetic Seduction, originally shown at Annka Kultys Gallery. Discussing the dissolving boundaries between the body and the mind in contemporary digital society, Munk says: “Our body holds our mind, which constantly pushes the boundaries of the body and explores new territories for the extension of the body’s identity. This tension has only been reinforced in the virtual world where our minds can go wandering, without the flabby gravity of the body to hold it back. With the digital universe we enter a post-human approach to the human, which challenges our carnality. The body has become liquid and editable, dissolved into carefully selected and vehemently retouched fragments.” Synthetic Seduction is currently on view at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen until 4 August. You can find the full interview here.
Online publication Figure Figure has just published an interview between Marie Munk and curator Indira Béraud regarding Munk’s practice and her inspiration for Synthetic Seduction, which was originally exhibited at Annka Kultys Gallery from February – March 2018. Munk says: “Humans are very clever and are usually confused about why they are here. We want to create machines that react just like us to replicate the humanity. We don’t get the complexity of humans so maybe if we can recreate it we would be able to understand our condition.” Synthetic Seduction is currently on view at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen until 4 August. To read the full interview, click here .
Olga Fedorova’s digital artworks have been mentioned in a review of the group show Data Dating at Galerie Charlot in Paris. In the article, the writer Marie-Laure Desjardins writes that Fedorova fabricates ‘proposals that make us observers of strange scenes, almost disturbing, and especially incomprehensible, as are generally the fantasies of others.’ Read the review on their website here.
Works by Molly Soda have been included in the group show Pure Raw, on view at Resort Gallery in Baltimore until 15 July. Curated by Alex Ebstein and Abbey Parrish, aims to deconstruct and exaggerate personal branding and aesthetics, aimed specifically at the blurred line between private and public self. Other artists on view include Maya Martinez, Pastiche Lumumba and more. For more information about the exhibition, click here .
Signe Pierce has been commissioned by Refinery 29 to photograph pop music artist Kali Uchis for The Come Up series, which highlights inspirational female artists.
Molly Soda will be joining fellow artists Maya Martinez and Marcyanne Hanneman on their Paradise Tour around North America, where Soda will perform her own poetry.
The tour dates are as follows:
Molly Soda’s solo exhibition, Me and My Gurls, at Annka Kultys Gallery is currently featured on ArtForum’s “Must-See Shows” list, the editors’ selection of essential exhibitions worldwide. The show, Soda’s third at AKG, transforms the gallery into a physical manifestation of the artist’s digital studio. The works on display expose Soda’s computer desktop and portions of her massive digital archive to an IRL (in real life) audience, building upon the artist’s previous solo shows at the gallery as well as her career-long exploration of what it means to live online. Me and My Gurls will remain on view through 16 June. To see the full listing of Must-See Shows, click here.
French publication ArtPress has just posted a fantastic review of Molly Soda’s ‘Me and My Gurls,’ written by art critic and professor of Neo-Literature Magali Nachtergael. In the piece, Nachtergael writes on Soda’s mastery of the digital medium and her ability to effortlessly move between different platforms, going so far as to compare her practice to a ‘ready-made autobiographique’ following the tradition of feminist artists like Gina Pane and Sophie Calle. Me and My Gurls is currently on view at Annka Kultys Gallery through 16 June. To read the full review, click here.
Artlyst has just published Paul Carey-Kent’s exhibition list of Choices Up Now in London, which includes Molly Soda’s Me and My Gurls. The exhibition, Soda’s third solo show at AKG, transforms the gallery into a physical manifestation of Soda’s digital desktop space. Me and My Gurls will remain on view through 16 June. To read the full review, click here.
In anticipation of the opening of Synthetic Seduction at SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen, artists Stine Deja and Marie Munk have compiled an ‘Alphabet’ to explain their inspirations and goals for the exhibition published on the I Do Art blog.
Alice Bucknell has written a profile of Stine Deja for Issue No. 28 of Cura Magazine.
ArtForum has reported that Art Foundation Pax, a Swiss organisation dedicated to the promotion of digital and media-based art, has awarded the inaugural Pax Art Award to !Mediengruppe Bitnik founders Domago Smoljo and Carmen Weisskopf.
Organ has just posted a review of Me and My Girls, Molly Soda’s third solo show at Annka Kultys Gallery. The show, on view through 16 June, presents recent video work by Soda alongside vinyl prints from the artists personal archive and printed works on aluminium and acrylic. You can find the full review here.