View of “My eyes like shovels.” Courtesy: the artists and Hua International, Berlin

View of “My eyes like shovels.” Courtesy: the artists and Hua International, Berlin

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.

On Tuesday 16 May at Soho House Berlin, net.art pioneer and The Thing co-founder Wolfgang Staehle maps out the technical and aesthetic ancestries of our contemporary adventures in cyberspace.

 Nile Koetting, Cherry script , 2023, e ink display animation, 9.5 x 12 x 2 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Parliament, Paris

Nile Koetting, Cherry script, 2023, e ink display animation, 9.5 x 12 x 2 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Parliament, Paris

Two exhibitions in Paris – Nile Koetting at Parliament Gallery and the group show “Au delà” at Lafayette Anticipations – conjure data’s limitations in the face of the divine.

 OMA, Hermitage Guggenheim, Las Vegas, The Venetian Resort Hotel, Solomon. R. Guggenheim Foundation, archival materials, 2000–01, and Flick House, Zurich, commissioned study, archival materials, 2001. All photos: Nelly Rodriguez

OMA, Hermitage Guggenheim, Las Vegas, The Venetian Resort Hotel, Solomon. R. Guggenheim Foundation, archival materials, 2000–01, and Flick House, Zurich, commissioned study, archival materials, 2001. All photos: Nelly Rodriguez

A group show at gta Exhibitions, Zurich calls into question local worlds left unbuilt, the worthiness of certain gifts, and museums’ credibility as storytellers of the cultures they serve.

 Portrait of Ulysses Jenkins, 2022. © Harry Gamboa Jr. Photo: Harry Gamboa Jr.

Portrait of Ulysses Jenkins, 2022. © Harry Gamboa Jr. Photo: Harry Gamboa Jr.

Occasioned by a retrospective at JSF Berlin, the polymathic video artist talks to Harry Gamboa Jr. about self-love and technological liberation, LA’s ethos of inclusion, and finding humor in the struggle for change.

Berlin Gallery Weekend is back! Here’s our guide to 5 shows among the 55 participating venues that we are especially curious to visit in the days ahead.

 Margaret Raspé with camera helmet, 1971. Courtesy: the artist und Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin. Photo: Heiner Ranke

Margaret Raspé with camera helmet, 1971. Courtesy: the artist und Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin. Photo: Heiner Ranke

A video-first retrospective at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, is charged with ninety-year-old Margaret Raspé’s untiring anger at the separation between art-making and domestic femininity.

 Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype, c. 1847.  Courtesy: The Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives & Special Collections, Amherst

Emily Dickinson, daguerreotype, c. 1847.  Courtesy: The Emily Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Archives & Special Collections, Amherst

The 19th-century poet, whose verse still resonates with its open-ended sense of how language produces meaning, is a model for a group of Brooklyn coders inventing a more humane computer.
By Olivia Kahn-Sperling

 Congolese Sapeurs

Congolese Sapeurs, members of the Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People)

What is style? It’s not fashion, or clothing; it’s only ever personal, but never entirely personal. In the first installment of Spike’s NEW COLUMN, Joanna Walsh ponders why we yearn for ten-piece wardrobe plans or call for Derrida to get style. 

On Thursday 27 April at Spike Berlin, our third panel with Tezos on art and new digital technologies unpacks Web3 as an economic structure, a sphere of knowledge, and a mode of governance.

 Still from Jes Fan, Palimpsest , 2023. All images courtesy: the artist and Empty Gallery

Still from Jes Fan, Palimpsest, 2023. All images courtesy: the artist and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

In Jes Fan’s glass-and-resin sculptures at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, a local pearl oyster embodies the island’s long-running struggle against the conspiracies of empire.