This issue is about the return of the family in neoliberalism, the influence of the political right on the arts, about #metoo, indie and
Édouard Glissant, about young rappers and life in the commune. With
Otto Muehl,
Sandra Mujinga,
Christoph Schlingensief, Anselm Franke,
Aria Dean, Yewande Omotoso, Alison Gingeras, Seth Meyers,
Liam Gillick, Dean Kissick, Alice Creischer, and many more.
Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike (Spike Art Quarterly) is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.
