Daniel Baumann is director of Kunsthalle Zurich. He lives in Basel.
In another year eclipsed by right-wing politics and apathetic art, nine Spike trustees separate global culture’s wheat from its chaff.
In 1996, the Polish artist’s minimalist floor sculpture recast Gavin Brown’s NYC gallery as a disco, distilling the elation of dance and the melancholy of its era’s unfulfillable promise.
Spike asked ten writers to climb out of the sludge of the present and think about what works of the 2010s remain in memory. The texts that follow and the art discussed can be read as both symptoms of ...
It’s happened: everyone’s an artist. It isn’t creativity that has led to success, but rather the employability and willing exploitation of the all-rounder. At least this is what Daniel Baumann claims,...
