Things we like

 VALIE EXPORT, Körperkonfiguration , 1982, silver gelatin print, 119.5 × 180 cm. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Courtesy:the artist and Charim Galerie, Vienna

VALIE EXPORT, Körperkonfiguration, 1982, silver gelatin print, 119.5 × 180 cm. © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023. Courtesy:the artist and Charim Galerie, Vienna

Spoilt for choice by Berlin Art Week and Gallery Weekend Festival? Spike tabbed through the capital’s stacked exhibition schedule for what to see with fresh eyes in the coming days.

 Berlin Atonal, 2019. Photo: Frankie-Casillo

Berlin Atonal, 2019. Photo: Frankie Casillo

Got a pass to the festival but don’t know who to catch? Or need a reminder to finally buy in for a weekend? Spike’s editors crunched a bountifully overflowing program to pick out the acts they’re planning to lose their hearing and sleep for.

 Julia Scher, Greta , 2022, marble 40 x 76 x 30 cm. © Rolf K. Wegst. Courtesy: the artist and Drei, Cologne

Julia Scher, Greta, 2022, marble 40 x 76 x 30 cm. © Rolf K. Wegst. Courtesy: the artist and Drei, Cologne

Phones from a dog’s eyes, knock-off poetry, and archives archives archives: Spike’s editors recommend four shows and one walking tour during Munich’s marquee art event “VARIOUS OTHERS.”

As Art World descends on the knee of the Rhine, gallerist Oskar Weiss dishes out the skinny on Basel’s best croissants, an anthroposophist, Gesamtkunstwerk, and which sweaty dancefloor is worth the queue.

 Exhibition space Berlin; all images: Gregor Kaluza

Exhibition space Berlin; all images: Gregor Kaluza

What do you with suitcases if you cannot travel? RIMOWA has the answer

 Roe Ethridge,  Prick Washer with Ador-gnome , 2022

Roe Ethridge, Prick Washer with Ador-gnome, 2022

Why does Adorno dream of sodomy and dishwashers? Jamieson Webster’s new book Disorganisation & Sex tells us. 

 Still from  Memoria . Courtesy: Kick the Machine, etc.

Still from Memoria. Courtesy: Kick the Machine, etc.

Some movies are only worth seeing in theaters if you don’t have to pay for a ticket. Others merit repeated viewings. Here are Nolan Kelly’s tips on what to watch and how to watch it.

The author with her book. Photo: Michael Krim

An excerpt from Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s newly published A Cigarette Lit Backwards, a punk story in the ‘burbs.

 Allen Ginsberg at a 1966 reading in New York City. © New York Daily News Archive

Allen Ginsberg at a 1966 reading in New York City. © New York Daily News Archive

Thirteen books to read in the heat, recommended by an ex-bookseller.

With On, the hills are alive in Art Basel.

 Photo: Betty Kragh

Photo: Betty Kragh

A Premiere of Courtesy’s “Night Journeys” video & an interview with the artist

Scent, memory, and language all imperfectly conjure the moments we keep coming back to. Adina Glickstein writes about Rimbaud, a new fragrance from Celine.

 Jon Rafman, ᖴᗩᑕIᗩᒪᔕ I  (2021). Video still. All images: Edition of 115, 1AP. Courtesy the artist and Feral File

Jon Rafman, ᖴᗩᑕIᗩᒪᔕ I (2021). Video still. All images: Edition of 115, 1AP. Courtesy the artist and Feral File

Crypto-acolytes promise nothing short of utopia ­– but how do the realities of the NFT art market stand up to this enthusiasm? Domenico Quaranta takes these optimistic claims to task, all without losing sight of the promising potential that remains amidst the contradiction.

 Love in the Time of Web3 , minted on the Zora protocol.

Love in the Time of Web3 (2021)

Ready to wade into tokenised waters, but feeilng overwhelmed by the big Open Sea? Let Spike be your guide: here are our favourite marketplaces, platforms, and protocols for cryptoart.

 Win McCarthy, Folded Set , 2021. Shoebox, folded ruler, worktable, photographs, 99 × 58 × 20 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin. Photo: Stefan Korte

Win McCarthy, Folded Set, 2021. Shoebox, folded ruler, worktable, photographs, 99 × 58 × 20 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin. Photo: Stefan Korte

A weekend so nice, they held it twice. This year, Berlin’s galleries rallied for a second, autumnal edition of the exhibition series, with several outposts sharing a thematic focus on new discoveries. Spike editor Isabella Zamboni, a newly-minted Berlin transplant by way of Milan, honed her sense of direction by exploring Gallery Weekend 2021. 

 Toshiki in the studio.

Toshiki in the studio.

Spike sat down with Japanese designer Toshiki to talk about the TOSHIKI x SPIKE Tote Bag collab, sustainability, and how totes are like dating apps. 

 Bottega Veneta Issue 02. Cover by Patricia Doria.

Bottega Veneta Issue 02. Cover by Patricia Doria.

Ditching social media, Bottega Veneta goes rogue with a multimedia journal – a space for creative expression unbound by the pressures of the algorithmic feed.

The heat of summer is upon us – and thanks to New York's roving pop-up magazine shop Bye Bye Neighbor, you can laze in the sun and leaf through a publication in the great outdoors.

 CBA Collections Item “Terrorism” by Edna Lazaron (1985). Mixed media sculptural work. Number 4 in an edition of 6. Signed and dated by the artist.

CBA Collections Item “Terrorism” by Edna Lazaron (1985). Mixed media sculptural work. Number 4 in an edition of 6. Signed and dated by the artist.

For this installment of Shoptalk, Spike sat down with Corina Reynolds, the Executive Director of Center for Book Arts, who aims to make hands-on experiences with book arts accessible to us all. 

 Lugas Syllabus, For a Thousand Mrmories , 2020-2021, Brass, Alluminium, Stainless steel 200 x 70 x 30 cm, Courtesy Linda Gallery 

Lugas Syllabus, For a Thousand Mrmories, 2020-2021, Brass, Alluminium, Stainless steel 200 x 70 x 30 cm, Courtesy Linda Gallery 

At Beijing Gallery Weekend, smaller off-spaces and well-established non-profit institutions like UCCA, M Woods, and Beijing Inside-Out alike showcased the enthusiasm, energy, and drive of this propitious endeavour.

 Manfred Pernice, Baum , 2020, metal, iron, 138 x 97 x 93 cm

Manfred Pernice, Baum, 2020, metal, iron, 138 x 97 x 93 cm

Spike editors Colin Lang and Alexandra Germer went 50/50 on Berlin Gallery Weekend, traversing the city in pursuit of art and optimism.

 Readellion co-founders Mariia Diakova and George Vyhranovskyi

Readellion co-founders Mariia Diakova and George Vyhranovskyi

They’re the front line workers of the art world, or something. In Spike’s new series, Shoptalk, we call book and magazine stores and publishers from around the world to see what they’re reading, thinking, stocking, and plotting. First up is Mariia Diakova and George Vyhranovskyi of Readellion, who play fairy-godparents to Kyiv’s budding art scene. 

BOTTEGA VENETA has found a means to offer a runway show in a bag, complete with photobooks, and a soundtrack on green vinyl.

 Coco Mademoiselle Perfume by Seth Bogart

Coco Mademoiselle Perfume, Ceramics by Seth Bogart

The holidays are upon us once again, and for this month’s column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS’s forty closest friends have the perfect thing in mind. Links included and you should definitely open them all! 

 Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured (Vienna) Spike, Vienna/Berlin 2020

Picture Post Card Posted From Post Box Pictured (Vienna) Spike, Vienna/Berlin 2020

Jonathan Monk in conversation with Colin Lang about his new postcard edition for Spike

 Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018

Berufsverkehr, Los Angeles, 2018, All photos © Christian Werner

The new book by Berlin based photographer Christian Werner

Picked by Daniel Baumann, Harry Burke, Christian Egger, Aria Dean, Alison Gingeras, Dean Kissick, Alvin Li, Lisa Long, Ella Plevin, Dominikus Müller, Klaus Speidel, Natasha Stagg & Bettina Steinbrügge

 Karl Holmqvist Untitled (Numbers)  (2015) Courtesy the artist

Karl Holmqvist
Untitled (Numbers) (2015)

Courtesy the artist

Recorded at Spike Berlin, 29 November 2018

Paris Internationale 2018: Recommendations for where to eat, drink and be merry from Eugenia Lai

Here's the lowdown for the show down at Art Basel: places to eat and drink and be merry in your downtime from the fair. By Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth

Recommendations from Eugenia Lai

Recommendations from Stephanie Seidel (ICA Miami)

 Merian Düsseldorf 1991

Merian Düsseldorf 1991

Empfehlungen von Robert Schulte

Recommendations from Clarissa Tempestini of ChertLüdde, Berlin

 Photo: Rasmus Weng Karlsen

Photo: Rasmus Weng Karlsen

Recommendations from Peter Amby

Gallery Weekend Berlin

 Angelo Plessas

Angelo Plessas
Photo: Stathis Mamalakis

Recommendations from Angelo Plessas
& Andreas Angelidakis

 Portrait Cory Scozzari

Cory Scozzari

Some recommendations from Jupiter Woods’s Cory Scozzari

A good lunch can be as hard to find as a great artwork. The gallery owner Gregor Staiger knows where to go. He recommends the best socialist breakfast, a very old restaurant, the paradessence of Swiss food and a few places to explore the very famous Badi (bathing) culture. Plus: he is also hosting a bar with the gallery's neighbours during the opening of Manifesta.

Gallery Weekend Berlin kicks off this Friday. Spike scoured the 54 participating galleries to bring you five exhibitions that we are looking forward to seeing.

 Christopher Williams Reinigung Ursula Schweyen, Lindenstr. 34, Köln, February 17th, 2010 2010 Silver Gelatin Print 86 x 95 cm (gerahmt) Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln

Christopher Williams
Reinigung Ursula Schweyen, Lindenstr. 34, Köln, February 17th, 2010
2010
Silver Gelatin Print
86 x 95 cm (gerahmt)
Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln

Where's the best Kuchen in Cologne? Where does the art world convene after hours? Which museums are worth a visit? And where are Martin Kippenberger's old haunts? Temporary Gallery's Regina Barunke serves it to us straight with her insider-guide for your trip to Art Cologne.

Where are the best places to have Lunch and Dinner in LA? In which cocktail bar will you meet Kenneth Anger? Which beach has the best surf? Martha Kirszenbaum tells us where to go if you have some time off from Art Los Angeles Contemporary and Paramount Ranch this weekend.

Seven recommendations by Paris Internationale

 Assistant director of Arcadia Missa, Zhoe Granger with Rózsa Farkas

Assistant director of Arcadia Missa, Zhoe Granger with Rózsa Farkas

Recommendations for day and night by Arcadia Missa's Rózsa Farkas

A seduction by Lili Reynaud-Dewar

Seven recommendations by SALTS

 In the crater in Görlitzer park

In the crater in Görlitzer park

And the city that saved his life

Gallery Weekend Berlin