80 splashy, poetic, and unexpected covers. 15,000 pages of our time in thought. All in 1 independent-as-ever Spike. We’re celebrating 20 years this fall with a special double issue.
Can driving produce drinkable water? Es Devlin’s collaboration with BMW during Art Basel in Basel encourages us to rethink the way we’ll move in our carbon-neutral time to come.
Spoilt for choice by Berlin’s weekend exhibition offerings? Spike tabbed through the capital’s stacked program for what to see with fresh eyes in the coming days.
Phones from a dog’s eyes, knock-off poetry, and archives archives archives: Spike’s editors recommend four shows opening during Munich’s marquee art event – and a weekend walking tour besides.
Berlin Gallery Weekend is back! Here’s our five show guide to the fifty-five participating venues opening their doors in the days ahead.
What’s a suitcase doing when its owner can’t travel? Why not being a work of art?
If you’ve arrived in Basel, you already know. The next few days will be filled with long hauls through whitespaces, conversations about the museums of the future, and drinks with someone who shows pro...
The “Like” button may have ruined the internet, but its cousin, the five-star rating, might just save art reviews. Spike’s new format might yet resolve the false choice between Doors and Dostoyevsky.
The artist Marta Riniker-Radich discusses the painting exhibition “La réforme de Pooky” with its curators Paolo Baggi, Nicolas Brulhart and Grégory Sugnaux. They talk about self-awareness, staging in ...
White Cube is pleased to present “In-Between”, the first solo exhibition in London by Chinese artist Wang Gongxin in which the artist expands on the central thesis of Japanese writer Tanizaki Junichir...
From December 5th on, LAS will present Light and Space (Kraftwerk Berlin) , a major site-specific installation at Kraftwerk Berlin by pioneering American artist Robert Irwin (b. 1928, Long Beach). Commissioned by LAS, the installation ...
Ditching the strictures of sports in favor of going pro in performance art, Yuki Kobayashi adopts athletics as a lens to reveal our reductive assumptions about sexuality and gender.
Founded in 1990 in Vienna, the museum in progress sought to build an institution that is not, technically speaking, an institution. Instead, its organisers, Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner, decided t...
In honour of this week's announcement that Kader Attia will curate the 2022 Berlin Biennale, Spike revisits a 2017 interview conducted by curator Cathérine Hug after the opening of his cultural venue,...
With the country still in lockdown, three Vienna galleries – Emanuel Layr, Croy Nielsen, and Sophie Tappeiner – came up with a new format for an art fair set in the conference halls of a popular hotel...
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What do you do when you can’t spend your days curating shows, your evenings at ritzy gallery dinners, and your nights in the clubs? We asked three gallerists, two artists, one writer, and one collecti...
Spike Berlin has been host to a collaborative show between Ivan Gallery Bucharest, and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery Tallinn. Before the final days of the group show, we spoke to Olga Temnikova and Maria...
