#53 Autumn 2017
The Real doesn’t exist in a vacuum but is shaped by desire and ideology, fiction and art. Its borders are indistinct, its appeal dubious, its essence elusive. Maybe we live in a simulation. When’s the last time you experienced a glitch? Sometimes another reality intrudes into the one we thought we knew and changes us forever. This issue of Spike looks at the real as a fault-line of art and a utopian horizon of its agency. Welcome to the oasis of the real!












Wolfgang Tillmans at Fondation Beyeler by Dorian Batycka, David Claerbout at Schaulager by Elise Lammer, „A Word Is a Shadow that Falls on a Lot of Things” at Ausstellungsraum Klingental by Elise Lammer
Wu Tsang at Kunsthalle Münster by Kolja Reichert, "Generation Loss" at Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf by Robert Schulte, Anne Speier at Portikus in Frankfurt by Sofia Leiby, "After the Fact: Propaganda in the 21st Century" at Lenbachhaus München by Christoph Chwatal
Moyra Davey's Hemlock Forest at Galerie Buchholz by William Kherbek, Ola Vasiljeva at Supportico Lopez by William Kherbek
Skulptur Projekte Münster by Kolja Reichert
“What is the relationship between ceramics and contemporary art?” at Kaikai Kiki Gallery by Emily Watlington
Ericka Beckman at Secession by Maximilian Geymüller, Betty Woodman at Galerie Hubert Winter by Maximilian Geymüller, Samira Elagoz at ImPulsTanz by Gianna Prein
Luke Willis Thompson's autoportrait at Chisenhale Gallery by Alexander Scrimgeour, "Dreamers Awake" at White Cube by Rebecca Bligh
Edward Krasinski at Stedelijk Museum by Christina Li
by Claire Fontaine
By Lu Yang, Patrizio Di Massimo, Tobias Zielony, Heji Shin, Marcelo Cipis
By Philomene Magers, Britta Thie, Asad Raza, Heidi Ballet, Ella Plevin
from Washington by Max Pitegoff & Calla Henkel