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January 2024

Interreality debuts Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot’s newest work GOD SAVE ABORTION in January 2024
After a successful opening in the fall of 2023, the 36 artist exhibition returns with special programming during Frieze Week LA

Los Angeles, CA – Interreality reopens January 18, 2024, exhibiting GOD SAVE ABORTION, a protest art action by Nadya Tolokonnikova, the creator of Pussy Riot, followed by special programming during Frieze Week LA. 

Interreality, curated by artist and former Night Gallery co-owner Mieke Marple, bridges the traditional and digital art worlds through the presentation of works that span the physical-to-digital spectrum. A particular focus of the exhibition is to exhibit artists who address socio-political issues. God Save Abortion will be shown in conversation with a number of artists whose work contributes to feminist discourse, including Claudia Hart, Auriea Harvey, OONA, Cindy Phenix, and Christine Tien Wang.

The expansive 35 artist group exhibition is produced by Steven Sacks, founder and director of bitforms gallery, and Aubrie Wienholt, director of Wienholt Projects and founder of PR for Artists.

About GOD SAVE ABORTION

GOD SAVE ABORTION is part of a bigger reproductive rights campaign of art actions that Pussy Riot are launching this upcoming year. The first piece is in collaboration with students from Indiana University, which took place as an old-school protest art action at Indiana’s Supreme Court on November 14, 2023. The lyrics state: GOD SAVE ABORTION (in English). Virgin Mary please become a feminist (in Russian). One can recognize the “Virgin Mary” lyrics from their February 21, 2012 “Punk Prayer” protest. 

“Our audience is not necessarily people who hate what we stand for, but instead our audience is like-minded people who feel overlooked, unsafe, and unseen.  We wish to inspire, organize, and collaborate with these like-minded people, who feel that the government has taken total control of their bodies and their rights.” – Nadya Tolokonnikova

About Interreality

Interreality is a continuation and expansion of the work bitforms gallery and Aubrie Wienholt have been doing for a combined 28 years, presenting artists engaged with new technologies with a sensitivity to physical space and embodied experience. This shared interest between Marple, Sacks, and Wienholt sparked the idea for Interreality, which they see as the apotheosis of their varied and nontraditional art careers.

Exhibited.at, a platform that shares and archives art exhibition history, will be archiving the exhibition on their site. Working with PR for Artists and Matthew Dunnerstick of Heroic.art, Marple and Exhibited.at will also be creating video dialogues between artists for social media.

Refik Anadol | Aya | Connie Bakshi | Bradley Bell | Ana Maria Caballero | Daniel Canogar | Susan Chen | Parker Day | Mark Flood | Claudia Hart | Auriea Harvey | Tyler Hobbs | Luna Ikuta | JPW3 | Jiayu Liu | Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | LaJuné MacMillian | Maya Man | Mieke Marple | Manfred Mohr | Amor Munoz | OONA | Cindy Phenix | Lindsay Price | Ellie Pritts | Casey Reas | Adam Parker Smith | Jen Stark | Sasha Stiles | Alida Sun | David Surman | Nadya Tolokonnikova | Siebren Versteeg | WAAMBAT | Christine Tien Wang | Yuge Zhou

About Pussy Riot

Conceptual performance artist Nadya Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest art movement. Today, hundreds of people identify as a part of the Pussy Riot community. She was sentenced in 2012 to 2 years’ imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance. 

Pussy Riot’s Punk-prayer was named by The Guardian among the best art pieces of the 21st century: “feminist, explicitly anti-Putin, protesting the banning of gay pride and the Orthodox church’s support of the president”. 

Tolokonnikova has exhibited at MoMA PS1, Palais de Tokyo, Saatchi Gallery, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Dallas Contemporary among other places.

Tolokonnikova’s Putin’s Ashes art installation at Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list. 

Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova:

Website: https://nadyariot.com / https://pussyriot.love
Instagram: @nadya
Twitter: @nadyariot / @pussyrrriot

For more on Pussy Riot please connect:

Gold Atlas – inge colsen – inge@goldatl.as – 212-203-5240

About Mieke Marple

Mieke Marple is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Marple has exhibited internationally, including in “Techno-Healing” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb and “Elan Vital” at MOCA Westport. Recent solo exhibitions include “Tarot Reckoning” and “Bed Feminist” at Ever Gold [Projects] in SF and “God is an Audiobook” at 1301PE in LA. She has been written about by The New York Times, W Magazine, The Guardian, Fortune, Elle, and Autre, among other publications. She has written for The Huffington Post, Lit Hub, Zyzzyva, ArtNews, and Artsy, among others. Through various charity art auctions, she has helped raise over a million and a half dollars for Planned Parenthood LA and a quarter million for prison abolitionist organization Critical Resistance. She received a B.A. in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008. Marple was co-founder of NFTuesdayLA and co-owner of Night Gallery from 2011-2016. She is creator of the Medusa Collection, a set of generative art NFTs reframing the Medusa myth. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Crypto Art, Seattle NFT Museum, and McEvoy Family Collection. 

Website: www.miekemarple.com
Instagram: @miekemarple

About Steven Sacks, bitforms gallery

Steven Sacks founded bitforms in November 2001. It is now considered the leading gallery in the world for new media art. The gallery represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists critically engaged with new technologies. Spanning the rich history of media art through its current developments, the gallery’s program offers an incisive perspective on the fields of digital, internet, time-based, and new media art forms. Supporting and advocating for the collection of ephemeral, time-based, and digital artworks since its founding, the gallery’s artists are in the collections of LACMA, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, among other institutions internationally.

Website: www.bitforms.art
Instagram: @bitforms

About Aubrie Wienholt, Wienholt Projects & PR for Artists

Aubrie Wienholt founded Wienholt Projects in 2023, following a 10+ year history of working with artists, galleries, museums, and other institutions. Wienholt Projects is committed to producing nontraditional exhibitions of works that interrogate and forward the field of art. Drawing from the experience of working with artists in an alternative capacity through PR for Artists, Wienholt’s creative agency and art house founded in 2015, Wienholt Projects is grounded in a unique understanding of artists’ holistic roles in society.

PR for Artists specializes in media relations, branding, industry networking, gallery relations, social media strategy, exhibition planning and coverage, as well as inventory management. Utilizing traditional PR techniques in the context of artist career management, the agency develops multi-tiered campaigns for various independent artists, galleries, museums and organizations.

Over the years, the agency has spearheaded successful campaigns working with a multitude of artists and institutions, notably: Tucson Museum of Art promoting artists like Olivier Mosset and Patrick Martinez, Sotheby’s, The L.A. Project, Gretchen Andrew, Julio Larraz, John Simmons, Hunt Slonem, Russell Young, Yuge Zhou, and many others. The agency has placed a variety of media, including: Artnet, The Art Gorgeous, The Art Newspaper, CBS Sunday Morning, Colossal, CNN, Dazed, Designboom, ELLE, The Eye of Photography, Fast Company, Flaunt, Forbes, Hi-Fructose, The Huffington Post, Hypebeast, Hyperallergic, KTLA, Kunstforum, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, My Modern Met, Newsweek, NPR, Rolling Stone, TIME, Whitehot Magazine, and many others.

Website: www.prforartists.com / www.wienholtprojects.com
Instagram: @aubrie_wienholt @prforartists @wienholtprojects

About Exhibited.at 

Exhibited.at is an online platform dedicated to sharing and preserving art exhibitions via a suite of innovative tools that includes an online and on-chain recording system, custom social content creation and unique profiles that capture the provenance behind each artwork. By enabling users to archive exhibition history, the stories and dialogues behind these shows are remembered and available for future discovery. Since launching in early 2023, exhibited.at has partnered with leading art collectives including theVERSEverse and Accelerate Art, archiving and sharing hundreds of artworks for global artists, curators and exhibitors. 

Website: www.exhibited.at
Instagram: @exhibited.at 

About StandardVision 

StandardVision is a Los Angeles-based architectural lighting design studio and digital media company operating at the intersection of art, architecture, and technology. Specializing in crafting bespoke large-scale digital displays that redefine public space, StandardVision transforms buildings into landmarks and brings art to new audiences. With an unwavering commitment to site-specific curation and experiential placemaking, StandardVision collaborates with an ever-growing roster of established and emerging artists–as well as galleries, museums, and cultural institutions–to meaningfully bring art into the public sphere and give creators unparalleled opportunities to engage culture.’

Website: www.standardvision.com