Hayek’s Bastards: Book Launch & Discussion with Quinn Slobodian

On Friday, 4 July at Spike Berlin, historian Quinn Slobodian will read from Hayek’s Bastards, his account of the new far right’s roots in neoliberalism’s (re)turn to nature. RSVP till 3 July.

Mika Rottenberg at Kunst Haus Wien

A Vienna video installation overflows with metaphors for the absurdities of global food chains.

“A Kind of Language” at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada

A Milan storyboard exhibition unfolds not only the secrets of many iconic films, but the story of cinema itself.

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SPIKE #83 – FOOD – IS OUT NOW!

Featuring Steven Phillips-Horst decrying foodie-ism; Philippa Snow on Saturn eating his son; Aodhan Madden reviewing the “new delicious” photography; J Lee’s tribute to NYC restaurant-art-king Julian Schnabel; portraits of queer food group Spiral Theory Test Kitchen and Austrian chef-artist trio Healthy Boy Band; Dominikus Müller on tableware as a cultural mirror; Joanna Walsh on the politics of dinner fashion; Tea Hačić-Vlahović on ketchup and self-respect; seven wicked amuse-bouches; and so many other courses.

Food Is Sex: Spiral Theory Test Kitchen
By Whitney Mallett

Precious Okoyomon, quori theodor, and Bobbi Salvör Menuez’s food art is sliming the psychic space between the body’s holes – and might just “turn” you trans. Republished from Spike #83 – Food.

The 6th VH Award at HEK
By Spike

Ahead of Art Basel 2025, Chinese artist Wendi Yan received the Hyundai Motor Group’s Grand Prix for a new film re-imagining the history of East-West epistemic encounter.

19th Venice International Architecture Exhibition
By Andrew Pasquier

If Carlo Ratti’s design showcase is bloated, messy, and somewhat too disinterested in aesthetics, its address of climate crisis also abounds with a rare quality for 2025: optimism.

Going Out in Basel
By Oskar Weiss

Headed to art’s big bazaar on the knee of the Rhine? Don’t miss the city’s best croissants, a Friends-themed dive bar, and a dancefloor worth the queue.

Fanny Hauser’s Many Partners in Crime
By Leila Peacock

The incoming director of Kunsthalle Zürich on thinking translationally, pulling out all the stops for artists, and a city coming into its cultural own.

SIGNA’s “The Final Year” at Wiener Festwochen
By Klaus Speidel

In a six-hour performance-installation at Funkhaus, Vienna, over-direction stymies the bleed between make-believe hospice and real-life aging and dying.

Art On Stream: A YouTube Genealogy
By Habib William Kherbek

What did algorithms ever do for visual culture but dumb it down? Artists, it turns, out, have been evolving a new form in the unlikeliest of corners: YouTube.

A Case for Happy Endings in “Sentimental Value”
By Nolan Kelly

In a festival brimming with doom and gloom, a film by Joachim Trier won Cannes’s Grand Prix by offering its characters a choice to mend.

Gala Season
By Travis Diehl

What do you do when the culture wars come for public art by zeroing out your grants? Throw another dinner. This month, Travis Diehl reports from the crisis-y head tables of NYC’s benefit extravaganza.

What Happened to the Curator?
By Daniel Baumann

The former director of Kunsthalle Zürich on why so many of his colleagues love art, their jobs, and the profession – and yet still want to leave.

In the Grief House of Ariana Reines
By Bruce Hainley

The US poet’s two newest books, Wave of Blood and The Rose, find life overflowing from its innumerable wounds.

Various Others 2025
By Spike Editorial Team

Body mods by Göksu Kunak, Haus der Kunst’s Shu Lea Cheang retrospective, even a speculative “unconference” at Bayerischer Hof – a visual recap of Munich’s marquee art festival.

Ralph Gleis on the Museum’s Favorite Weapon
By Hans-Jürgen Hafner

The new director of Vienna’s ALBERTINA on building a universal art institution to meet its many publics where they are.

On Color
By Joanna Walsh

Dusky purple was widely hyped to be the hue of 2025 – only to be passed over for a tiresome brown. Why would fashion prefer comfort to change?

7 PM in Berlin
By Patrick Kurth

A dinner for Klára Hosnedlová’s CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof served three courses, migration stories, and what one server called “a dystopia you can live in.”

Ivana Bašić Breaks Through to the Other Side
By Nikolai von Moltke

The Yugoslavian-born sculptor doesn’t make her otherworldly beings so much as let them onto this perceptual plane.

Computes Will Not Replace Us
By Travis Diehl

A Bitcoin bar, a fake AI art show, a painfully sincere afterparty, and the ghost of Ireland – inside the delusional overlap of tech evangelism and Western decline.

Helmut Lang’s Open Mind and Closed Fist
By Juliana Halpert

The artist muses on the authenticity of instinct and what to do with works that are strong enough to fight back.

7pm in Hong Kong
By Geoffrey Mak

A son of the diaspora went looking for an education in modern Chinese art – and found both a buzzing market and a new feeling of being made whole.

Working Charli XCX Out On the Remix
By Matilda Lin Berke

What was last year’s mega-watt pop album brat really about? Smart marketing, of course – but also art-making in-progress, in public. A reflection on thinking past (acid-green) surfaces.

Stephen Cheng on Ten Years of Empty Gallery
By Jaime Chu

The founder of Hong Kong art’s black cube extols sheltering artists from the system and the experimental drug called jet lag.

The Internet Enters Its Age of Aquarius
By Günseli Yalcinkaya

On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiraling back towards its mystical origins, driven by a counterculture that’s not after free love so much as fatter profits.

We Are All Foodies Now
By Steven Phillips-Horst

At a moment when so many cultural forms seem to be in recession, the safest index for clout is knowing which gastropub makes the most photogenic vegan steak.

The New Delicious
By Aodhan Madden

Can words ever really capture the tang of sour milk? Torbjørn Rødland, Diane Severin Nguyen, and Yair Oelbaum are making photos that indulge the tongue’s less speakable pleasures.