On 14 September 2025 at Julia Stoschek Foundation, our roundtable with Matthias Lilienthal, Henrike Naumann, Pablo Larios, and Axel Wieder was optimistic, not about the resuscitation of the city’s passé IP, but a Berlin yet to come; it followed through on a questionnaire in our 20th anniversary double issue, Spike #81/82 – The Post-Cool.

“Post-Cool Berlin?” was the first in a series of four yearly Spike roundtables on the critical conjunctures in contemporary art, hosted by JSF.

Sunday, 14 Sept 2025 at 7pm
Julia Stoschek Foundation
Leipziger Str. 60, 10117 Berlin

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MATTHIAS LILIENTHAL (*1959) is a dramaturge, lecturer, and actor. In 2026, he will begin his second tenure as artistic director of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. 

HENRIKE NAUMANN (*1984) is an artist whose immersive, scenographic installations trace the marks of politics and societal trauma. In 2026, she will co-represent Germany at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, along with Sung Tieu.

AXEL WIEDER (*1971) is an art historian, curator, and writer. Since 2024, he has been the director of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

PABLO LARIOS is a writer, editor, and International Editor at Artforum. Born in Honduras and raised in the US, he lives in Berlin.