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The Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan moved into a bunker at the war's beginning. There, he spoke to Hans Ulrich Obrist and Sebastian Clark about how the past remains in the subjunctive and why we need a new anti-fascism.
What happens when propaganda pushes post-truth directly onto the battlefield? Milena Khomchenko, a writer from Kyiv, reflects on the “informational front” of the war in Ukraine.
Henryk Streng/Marek Włodarski, Childhood Memories (1924). Henryk Streng was born in Lwów, Poland (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) in 1903. In 1942 he destroyed all of his documents and acquired new papers under the name of “Marek Włodarski.”
Not another article about Kyiv as the new Berlin! On the occasion of the Future Generation Art Prize, Alexander Scrimgeour wonders about how the twentieth-century phenomenon of international contemporary art changes under the pressure of good old-fashioned geopolitics.
Spike editor Alexander Scrimgeour visits Kyiv, capital of a nation working through its recent past, and tries make sense of its complicated present – through contemporary art.
!["Freedom is our religion" hoarding/billboard on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) ](https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/users/shared/articles/images/20180221_185113.jpg?itok=NKN5m5Yc ""Freedom is our religion" hoarding/billboard on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) ")