Spike Events

On Tuesday, 4 July at Spike Berlin, American art critic and author of Art in the After-Culture (2022) Ben Davis swings by to talk us through aesthetics and art-making in an age of crisis.

On Thursday, 22 June at Spike Berlin, our fifth and final panel with Tezos hones in on the conceptual potential of cryptoeconomics to resolve some of the conundrums bedeviling contemporary art production.

On Tuesday 16 May at Soho House Berlin, net.art pioneer and The Thing co-founder Wolfgang Staehle maps out the technical and aesthetic ancestries of our contemporary adventures in cyberspace.

On Thursday 27 April at Spike Berlin, our third panel with Tezos on art and new digital technologies unpacks Web3 as an economic structure, a sphere of knowledge, and a mode of governance.

 Portrait of Monica Bonvicini. © Monica Bonvicini and VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2022. Photo: Olaf Heine

Portrait of Monica Bonvicini. © Monica Bonvicini and VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2022. Photo: Olaf Heine

On Tuesday 11 April at Soho House Berlin, Monica Bonvicini speaks to Francesco Tenaglia about her ongoing show at Neue Nationalgalerie, “I do You,” and the linkages between architecture, sculpture, and power.

 Still from Keiken, Morphogenic Angels , 2022–23, prototype role-playing game. Courtesy: the artists

Still from Keiken, Morphogenic Angels, 2022–23, prototype role-playing game. Courtesy: the artists

On Friday 31 March at Soho House Berlin, Tanya Cruz speaks to Adina Glickstein about Keiken’s latest game, Morphogenic Angels, and the collective’s transmedial production of speculative worlds.

On Thursday 23 March at despace berlin, our second panel with Tezos on art and Web3 takes on digital collecting, participatory engagement, and on-chain marketplaces.

Ivan Gallery and Temnikova & Kasela at Spike Berlin; 3–30 October 2020

At Spike Berlin / 24 September, 2020

BLESS N°29 Wallscape, featuring BLESS N°46 Contemporary Remediation, a concert of wish items
 

 Lia Perjovschi,  “Costume” , 2019/20

Lia Perjovschi

“Costume”, 2019/20

An exhibition at Spike Berlin in collaboration with Ivan Gallery, Bucarest; 4–26 September 2020       

 Saâdane Afif, "Souvenir: La Leçon de Géométrie", daily performance by Dahmad Boutfounast, Jemaa el-Fnaa square, Marrakesh, Morocco for "Where Are We Now?", Marrakech Biennale 5, 2014

Saâdane Afif, "Souvenir: La Leçon de Géométrie",
daily performance by Dahmad Boutfounast, Jemaa el-Fnaa square, Marrakesh, Morocco for "Where Are We Now?", Marrakech Biennale 5, 2014

20 November 2019 at Spike Berlin

An exhibition at Spike Berlin, 19 – 22 September 2019

30 August 2019 at Spike Berlin

28 September 2019 - Hosted by Times Art Center Berlin

 Vitrine with original documents and letters of Paul Neagu 

Vitrine with original documents and letters of Paul Neagu 

An exhibition at Spike Berlin, 30 January – 14 March 2020, organised by Salonul de proiecte 

 Still from Josh Kline's Flattery Bath 2 (2012) HD Video, Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York

Still from Josh Kline’s Flattery Bath 2 (2012)
HD Video, Courtesy the artist and 47 Canal, New York

At Spike Berlin / November 12, 2019

 
 Installation view

Installation view

An exhibition at Spike Berlin, 26 April – 17 May 2019

 Jan Vorisek

Jan Vorisek
RADIATORS IN THE SKY. Drone in the Park – Field Recordings and Feedback of the Sun, 2018

 Still (detail) from “Narcissister Organ Player” 

Still (detail) from “Narcissister Organ Player” 

At Spike Berlin / 11 April 2019

At Spike Berlin / 16 February, 2019

Discussion and Book Launch with Cana Bilir-Meier, Maria Lind, Alexander Koch, Patricia Reed and Joanna Warsza at Spike Berlin / 30 January, 2019

A conversation series with Reza Negarestani, Anne Françoise-Schmid, Benjamin Bratton & many more presented by The New Centre for Research & Practice at Spike Berlin / 19 January, 2019

Screening and Talk with the director, Julieta Aranda, and Patrick Schabus at Spike Berlin / 19 January, 2019

Book launch, reading and talk with Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner at Spike Berlin / 11 January, 2019

A performative installation at Spike Berlin / 8 December, 5pm

Performance, Talk, Book Launch at Spike Berlin / 29 November, 2018

Ein Gespräch mit Lena Braun, Sandro Droschl, Christian Nagel und Helene Romakin bei Spike Berlin / 22. November 2018

At the Ukrainian National Home, East Village / 3 November, 2018

A Reading with Carly Busta, Bianca Heuser, Lily McMenamy, Ella Plevin, Sybil Prentice, Emily Segal, Colin Self & Natasha Stagg at Spike Berlin / 25 September, 2018

A conversation with Kasper König & Peter Pakesch. Moderated by Dominikus Müller at Spike Berlin / 24 September, 2018

Talk and screening with Amartey Golding and Juliana Huxtable, moderated by Mohammad Salemy at Spike Berlin / 5 July, 2018

For the finissage of "Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit, Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil" at Spike Berlin / 10 June, 2018

Readings by Heike Dertmann and Jeanne Graff at Spike Berlin / June 7, 2018

Screening at Spike Berlin followed by a conversation with Anna Zett / June 5, 2018

Installation view

Installation view

Installation view
from left: Noele Ody, Eoghan Ryan, Aura Rosenberg

With DJ Lily McMenamy, special drink "Charles Jourdan" and sausages at Spike Berlin / 21 April, 2018

Talk and book launch with Lisa Holzer and Hanna Magauer at Spike Berlin / April 10, 2018

A conversation between Jonas Lund and Patricia Reed at Spike Berlin in cooperation with PAM 2018 /March 16, 2018

Book launch and readings by Freya Chou, Jason Dodge, Chris Evans, Will Holder, Bitsy Knox at Spike Berlin / January 29, 2018

A discussion with Adam Szymczyk and Hans D. Christ moderated by Kolja Reichert at Spike Berlin / December 15, 2017

Book Launch and Reading, with Katharina Weinstock at Spike Berlin/ November 28, 2017

Photo: Hanna Putz

With Vanessa Carlos, Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth and Kevin Rubén Jacobs at Spike Berlin / November 17, 2017

Spike Berlin / 27 October, 2017

A talk hosted by Spike Berlin / 22 September, 2017

Spike Berlin / 23 September, 2017

Book launch with cooking and reading / 16 September, 2017

A lecture with Q&A by Benjamin Bratton at Spike Berlin / 11 September, 2017

One day of lectures at Spike Berlin featuring Jeni Fulton, Jeremy Gilbert, Tariq Goddard, Shama Khanna, Christian Kobald, Carl Neville, Warren Neidich, Seb Olma, and Alexander Scrimgeour / 8 July, 2017

A performative lecture by Warren Neidich at Spike Berlin / 21 June, 2017

 © CCA

© CCA

Book Launch at Spike Berlin / 15 June, 2017

Readings by Oliver Bulas and Juno Meinecke, at Spike Berlin / 1 Dec. 2017

 A Poetry Reading with Q & A by Hoa Nguyen at Spike Berlin / 2 June, 2017

Exhibition at Spike Berlin / 1 June – 1 July 2017

A Poetry Reading at Spike Berlin / May 20, 2017

Concert at Spike Berlin / April 27, 2017

Premiere Screening at Spike Berlin / April 22, 2017

With Heidi Ballet, Chris Dercon and Tirdad Zolghadr at Spike Berlin / April 21, 2017

Talk at Spike Berlin with philosopher Armen Avanessian & curator Christian Kobald, March 15, 2017

February 22, 2017. Film screening at Spike Berlin

February 17, 2017. With Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise, and Dieter Lesage

Performance and Reading, Spike Berlin / 19 January, 2017

August 11 2016, with Tilman Baumgärtel, Josephine Bosma, and Stephan Schwingeler

With Fabrice Stroun, Alexi Kukuljevic, Yilmaz Dziewior, Nik Kosmas, Masha McConaghy, and Dirk Paesmans

Spike, Berlin / 19 February, 2016

With Emily Segal, Alessandro Bava, Fulvia Carnevale, Rory Rowan, Constant Dullaart, and Toke Lykkeberg

Discussion with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Matthias Lilienthal and Tino Sehgal

A roundtable with DIS, Hito Steyerl & Susanne von Falkenhausen, and Kolja Reichert at Spike Berlin, December 2014

Roundtable with Simon Denny, Alexander Koch, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Kolja Reichert at Spike Berlin

23 February 2015

 Leseperformance  

Leseperformance

 

Skulpi III Release at Spike Berlin, January 2015

Vienna based artist Axel Stockburger talks to Spike editor Christian Kobald about his new book "Blockbuster" at Spike Berlin, December 2014

 Performance by Adam Linder

Performance by Adam Linder

A panel discussion (in the afternoon), an exhibition, readings, and performances (in the evening), Spike Vienna, 2013