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Tolia Astakhishvili, Our garden is in Bonn (detail), 2023. Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2023. Unless otherwise noted, all images courtesy: the artist and LC Queisser, Tbilisi. Photos: Mareike Tocha
How do you get rid of something you feel you need? Tolia Astakhishvili builds densely layered environments, populated by both sick and vital spirits, to prove how lack is necessary to inhabit our psychic “house.”
From fake eyelashes to slasher movies, Spike’s editor Isabella Zamboni highlights the most spirited shows opened during Zurich Art Weekend, and still on view
Louise Lawler, (Stevie Wonder) Living Room Corner Arranged by Mr. & Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Sr., New York City, 1984/1985, silver dye bleach print with printed text on mat, 46.5 x 60.5 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Sprüth Magers
Espying 20th-century icons in all their public guises and moments of uncanny repose, Louise Lawler’s photographs convey that how we look is as formative as what we’re meant to see.
Spike editor Isabella Zamboni picks the six most vibrant shows from Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023. Home ghosts, Kurdish ropes, watery half animals, too-blue eyes, Neapolitan satyrs, hysterical bureaucrats: Indulge in the capital’s most spirited visions.
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, This undreamt of sail is watered by the white wind of the abyss, 2022, video installation, mixed media. Installation view, “12th Berlin Biennale,” Hamburger Bahnhof, 2022, Berlin. Photo: Laura Fiorio
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.
