Chloe Stead

 Installation view of Andi Fischer's works at Berlin Masters 2018, 24 September - 7 October 2018 © Bernd Borchardt

Installation view of Andi Fischer's works at Berlin Masters 2018, 24 September - 7 October 2018 © Bernd Borchardt

An interview with German artist Andi Fischer, winner of the Toy Berlin Masters Award 2018. By Chloe Stead

An interview with Andrew Berardini and Chris Sharp, the curators of “The Lulennial II: A Low Hanging Fruit”, which opened in Mexico City this week.

 Kris Lemsalu,  Mysteriously conceived and deeply felt (detail, 2018) 

Kris Lemsalu, Mysteriously conceived and deeply felt (2018)
Courtesy the artist and Koppe Astner, Glasgow 

Chloe Stead visited the preview weekend of the third London edition of the now famous collaborative exhibition and spoke to the gallerists

Isa Genzken at König Galerie by Dominikus Müller, Preis der Nationalgalerie by Chloe Stead, Parapolitics at HKW by Alexander Scrimgeour, Salvage Art Institute at BNKR in Munich by Daniela Stöppel, Alexander Kluge at Folkwang Museum in Essen by Moritz Scheper

 Pan with Bears  (2017), Courtesy the artist, Metro Pictures, New York, and Tanya Leighton, Berlin

Pan with Bears (2017), Courtesy the artist, Metro Pictures, New York, and Tanya Leighton, Berlin

The Austrian­ born artist and co-founder of the influential image blog VVORK (2006-2012) has never been interested in the difference between digital and real. In his work, he questions the privileged authority of established art institutions. By Chloe Stead

A short interview with the artist as she puts the finishing touches to her solo exhibition "Lithosomes", opening 21 October, 2017

An interview with the artist as he puts the finishing touches to his solo exhibition "Collider Body", opening 8 September, 2017

 Candice Breitz Love Story  (2016, film still)

Candice Breitz
Love Story (2016, film still)

“Collected Attituded” at Fahrbereitschaft – Sammlung Haubrok by Mitch Speed, Michael Portnoy at the KW performance series “The Weekends” by Nick Currie, Micah Hesse at Neumeister Bar-Am by Chloe Stead, Candice Breitz at KOW by Chloe Stead

 Student postest at Cooper Union

Student protest at Cooper Union

Status Quo Art School. How do art academies change in the course of a world run by a liberal-minded creative industries? How should art schools respond to the financialisation of higher education? Can art schools maintain their autonomy as sites of independent teaching and learning? In the first of a series of pieces tackling the future of art education to be published on Spike Online in the coming months, Chloe Stead writes on the student activists of Free Cooper Union and on protest as a learning experience.

 Still from Sponge Bob Square Pants

Still from Sponge Bob Square Pants

Spike’s current editorial intern is angry. The art world doesn't pay its assistants and interns, so in her other life Chloe Stead serves burgers. She has found allies in artists and activists who oppose the culture of unpaid work and calls on us all to do the same.