PORTRAIT: LOST AND FOUND

by Francesco Bonami

Francesco Bonami on Maurizio Cattelan

“Maurizio Cattelan has been playing with the art world since the late 1980s with his critical gestures and sculptural pranks. One fake-retirement and one (now stolen) golden toilet later, his work hasn’t changed. It’s how the art world understands his work that has.”

– This text appears in Spike #61. You can buy it in our online shop –

Maurizio Cattelan

Francesco Bonami

Discourse

Philip Guston, Riding Around, 1969, Oil on canvas, 137 x 201 cm; Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Falling Out: There’s No Place Like America Today

There’s been a debate raging about the postponement of a massive Philip Guston retrospective at four different museums. So, naturally COLIN LANG has to throw his yarmulke into the ring.

Discourse

Lady Gag with Hot Dog, Vanity Fair Shoot, New York, 2011

Lady Gag with Hot Dog, Vanity Fair Shoot, New York, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DARK TIMES. THEY'VE NEVER BEEN AS DARK AS NOW

In her new column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS gives us a few anecdotes about hot dog eating, boys who overvalue Continental Philosophy, and what happens when your friends start to hate you. What more could you ask for?

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Galerie Crone, curated by Jakob Lena Knebl
Exhibition view, “Diskrete Simulation”, 2020

Charim Galerie Wien, curated by Brigitte Huck
Exhibition view, “Murderkino” by Scott Cliford Evans, 2020

Charim Galerie Wien, curated by Brigitte Huck
Anna Jermolaewa, Filmset, Murderkino by Scott Cliford Evans, 2019

Highlights from curated by 2020, Vienna

Discourse

Pieter Schoolwerth,  Shifted Sims #13 (Covid-19 Expansion Pack) , 2020.

Pieter Schoolwerth, Shifted Sims #13 (Covid-19 Expansion Pack), 2020. Petzel Gallery, New York.

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL: ZOMBIE FIGURATION AND THE DEATH RITUAL

It’s fall so Dean Kissick goes on a gallery tour of Manhattan.

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Installation view, Ambera Wellmann, “Logic of Ghosts”, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2020; Photo: def-image

Installation view, Austin Lee, “Aah”, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2020, Photo: Matthias Kolb

Highlights from Berlin Gallery Weekend 2020

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Megan Francis Sullivan,  Marie 148 , 2014, c-print, 50 x 62.5 cm; Photo: Renke Klaproth

Megan Francis Sullivan, Marie 148, 2014., C-print, 50 x 62.5 cm; Photo: Renke Klaproth

On the Weekends That Were – Munich, Zurich, and Berlin

It was quite a week and weekends in the German-speaking lands, where Munich’s Various Others, Zurich Art Weekend, and Berlin Gallery Weekend all managed to coincide and jointly usher in the start of the season.

Spike Events

Opening: "On Adornments" Ivan Gallery and Temnikova & Kasela at Spike Berlin

Ivan Gallery and Temnikova & Kasela at Spike Berlin; 3–30 October 2020

Discourse

Ydessa Hendeles, The Steeple and the People, 2018, detail

Falling Out: In the Belly of the Beast

From Munich to Berlin, it’s time to celebrate the High Holydays with a few jaunts to non-commercial spaces, and an apologetic butt-dial or two.

Discourse

Kaitlin with “Trust No One” bracelet, April 22, 2016. Photo: Olivier Zahm

Kaitlin with “Trust No One” bracelet, April 2016; Photo Olivier Zahm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “MASKS OFF, PERSONALITIES ON”

In her new column, KAITLIN PHILLIPS recounts the drama of finally getting her own pad, and quickly finds out that she has no lights, or buzzer. How will people get in to her housewarming party? Read on to find out.

Spike Events

Magazine Launch & Courtyard BBQ

At Spike Berlin / 24 September, 2020

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Installation view "Josef Bauer. Demonstration" LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, 2020 Foto: maschekS.

Installation view “Josef Bauer. Demonstration”, Photo: maschekS

“Josef Bauer. Demonstration” at LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz

By Klaus Speidel

"The 80s was the last period when low self-esteem was a normative response to authority"

Essay: The Last Great Era of Low Self-Esteem

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