In the witching hours of the twenty-first century, magic is once again a tool with which we can change reality, but at the same time it is pervasive and pernicious, co-opted by spiritual entrepreneurism and the ... Read more →

The culture wars are raging. Neoliberalism and right-wing populism have co-opted the critique of the 1960s and turned it against art, science and the democratic public sphere, while the left is consumed by infighting. This issue ... Read more →

Brands such as Y/Project, Telfar and Vetements have found new ways to pick up where the designers of the 90s left off. Aided by strategies borrowed from art, they are transforming the fashion system from within ... Read more →

New Formations We are in an interregnum, an in-between state where the old world is dying and the new struggles to be born. Colonies of bacteria are decomposing the white cube, automation will replace work, and a ... Read more →

New FormationsWe are in an interregnum, an in-between state where the old world is dying and the new struggles to be born. Colonies of bacteria are decomposing the white cube, automation will replace work, and a ... Read more →

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 ... Read more →

The borders of fiction and reality are slipping ever further. A lot of what is behind the images on our screens remains hidden: their political utility; the algorithms through which they appear; the source of their ... Read more →

Faith, hope and love. The world needs them and so does art, in good times and in bad, but especially when huge shifts in society and politics mean we don’t know where the road is taking ... Read more →

This issue is all about the family: as structure, model, metaphor, as place of origin and point of no return. Do we need to save the family, or to destroy it? Do lines of descent still ... Read more →

“Anxiety” is set against ”Banality” in a 2007 work by artist Guthrie Lonergan, where ”Net Art 1.0″ is opposed to a nascent post-internet. Mapping the shift from the hacker ethos of the 90s to the social-media art of today to ... Read more →

The viral internet is a rabbit hole where the truth goes to die. Some of us want to be seen and others don’t. In this issue we feature a selection of “contemporary archetypes,” among them the ... Read more →

What it means to be human is changing. Increasingly, human beings see themselves as part of bigger ecological, economic and technological systems. If consciousness can just as easily reside in plants and machines, the body becomes interesting ... Read more →

Since the human is no longer central to history—replaced instead by networks and systems—the old question “What is to be done?” needs to be reconsidered. What forms of organisation still allow artists to create their own ... Read more →

9/11. The Greek referendum. Tonight’s opening. The many events that have nothing to do with spectacle or even remain invisible. The event holds the promise of the collective encounter; it is ubiquitous and rare. When does ... Read more →

Spike presents its 1st Annual Edition Portfolio We are proud to announce the release of our 1st Annual Edition Portfolio, curated by Stefan Tasch. It includes specially commissioned works by Darren Bader, Sylvie Fleury, Samara Golden, Jonathan ... Read more →

Spike’s new issue focuses on painting, asking what the digital means for a code that is made and remade over long spans of time, in feedback loops and in dialogue with history.  Looking for answers, we ... Read more →

After ten successful years, Spike has had a stunning redesign by Munich-based graphic design studio Bureau Mirko Borsche. The first new issue of the new-look Spike is dedicated to the theme of forgetting. The acceleration of flows of ... Read more →

Spike has turned ten. We are celebrating with an extra-thick issue revolving around the theme of time.  New York-based artist Piotr Uklanski visits Hermann Nitsch in his castle, where this legendary figure of Austrian art talks about ... Read more →

Dear friends, The heat is on, and our summer issue is out. Themed Art under Capitalism, the magazine includes an acerbic and revealing conversation about the bleak future of art between curator Daniel Baumann and dealer Gavin Brown, ... Read more →

Dear friends, It’s all about the network in our latest issue.  Alexander R. Galloway introduces the theme with an essay about the asymmetric nature of networks and the hyper-regulated space of the Internet. Curator and activist Ben Vickers and ... Read more →

Dear friends, We are pleased to present our latest issue, Spike #38, which pushes aside the spectacle of the art-industrial complex to make room for Models of Play—the ludic, the low-budget, the participatory and the informal. Curator ... Read more →

Dear friends, We are pleased to present Spike #37, The Berlin Issue, with a stream of consciousness by Timo Feldhaus on the Berlin scene where theory and lifestyle merge, writer Ingo Niermann defines an “expanded concept of ... Read more →

Dear readers, Coinciding with the start of summer we are pleased to announce the release of our new issue 36. In our headlining contribution curators Aaron Moulton and Carson Chan discuss their respective projects in the regional ... Read more →

  Dear readers, Spring has arrived! And with it, our latest issue full of fresh material and new thought: headlined by Speculative Realist Quentin Meillassoux, we launch our 21st-Century Theory series guest-edited by Armen Avanessian, with a proposal ... Read more →

Dear readers, Our autumn issue has just come out, featuring two critical views on documenta 13 by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud and American writer Fionn Meade. Pier Luigi Tazzi, Gelatin and Stefan Ratibor reminisce about the legacy left ... Read more →

Dear readers, We’re happy to announce that we’ll be hosting a launch party in honour of our summer issue at Kunsthalle Basel on Wednesday, 13 June, starting at 6pm (followed by the opening of the exhibition by ... Read more →

spike art quarterly issue 27 out now www.spikeart.at We ... Read more →