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Spike #52 – What exhibitions do

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ARTIST'S FAVOURITES
by Dawn Kasper

CURATOR'S KEY
Doryun Chong, chief curator of M+ in Hong Kong, on Stanton Near Forsyth Street (1984) by Martin Wong

EXHIBITION HISTORIES
Liam Gillick on one of Rirkrit Tiravanija's first solo shows, “untitled (1992) free”, at 303 Gallery in New York in 1992

ONE WORK
Cecilia Vicuña's cloud net links language and performance, indigeneity and ecology, in ways that speak to our contemporary moment. By Harry Burke

Q/A ADRIANA LARA
What is the ideal exhibition?

ROUNDTABLE: WHAT CAN EXHIBITIONS DO?
Chris Dercon, Heidi Ballet and Tirdad Zolghadr talk about the power of the object, the large-scale exhibition, lazy curators and the importance of creating a public.

POSTCARD
from Lagos by Emeka Okereke

Q&A BENJAMIN H. BRATTON
Does the feed change our experience of time?

IMAGES CONTRIBUTED
by Elad Lassry, Sophie von Hellermann, GCC, Alex Da Corte

Q/A RÓZSA FARKAS
Has Instagram killed the exhibition review?

PORTRAIT KAREN KILIMNIK
There is something enigmatic about her theatrical installations. With paintings, readymades, sculptures, drawings and videos, they draw the viewer into a world of glitter, horror, stars and victims, but we never know who it belongs to. By Barry Schwabsky

PORTRAIT VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtual reality is still in its infancy. It has a long way to go until we can tease out its potential, and this is exactly what makes so ripe for artistic interrogation. Ben Vickers on the forgotten history of the newest medium, virtual reality.

INTERVIEW ANDROS ZINS-BROWNE
The choreographer spoke to Asad Raza about dance and exhibitions, the process of “de-hearsal”, and how Metallica and Shakespeare shook up his sense of time and space.

INTERVIEW BRIGITTE KOWANZ
The sculptures the artist started making in 1980s Vienna stand in stark contrast to Actionism and monumental sculpture. Her medium is light, and in her most recent neon works the digital plays an increasingly important role. By Maximilian Geymüller

Q/A EMILY PETHICK
Are talks, workshops, and events more important today than classical exhibitions?

ESSAY
What are the exhibition spaces of the future? Hybrid museum buildings, domestic spaces that defy our transparent, commercialised world, or the urban fabric itself? Alessandro Bava on the rediscovered relevance of architecture and the desire for real experience.

MEDIA
The New York Times virtual-reality app takes Rob Horning to deep space, to the front lines in Falluja or to artist's studios. But once he has stepped inside these worlds, it's not clear what you he supposed to do there.

MEDITATION
Why don't we leave the white cube and imagine the exhibition as a global nervous system with lots of entrances and exits? By Valentinas Klimašauskas

MUSIC
Rave still holds the problematic promise of total immersion. By Nora Khan

SEDUCTION
by Henning Besser, Javier Peres, Robert Schulte, Karim Crippa, Simon Fujiwara

VIEWS ATHENS
Documenta 14 by Alexander Scrimgeour

VIEWS AUSTRIA
VIENNA: Martin Beck at Mumok by Maximilian Geymüller, Ben Schumacher at Croy Nielsen by Max L. Feldman, Helmut Lang at Sammlung Friedrichshof Zurndorf / Stadtraum Wien by Christian Egger;
GRAZ: Stephan Dillemuth at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien by Melissa Canbaz

VIEWS BERLIN
“Collected Attituded” at Fahrbereitschaft – Sammlung Haubrok by Mitch Speed, Michael Portnoy at the KW performance series “The Weekends” by Nick Currie, Micah Hesse at Neumeister Bar-Am by Chloe Stead, Candice Breitz at KOW by Chloe Stead

VIEWS SWITZERLAND
ZURICH: “Speak, Lokal” at Kunsthalle Zürich by Daniel Horn;
GENEVA: Yoan Mudry at Art Bärtschi & Cie, Philippe Daerendinger at Quark, and Denis Savary at Galerie Xippas by Yann Chateigné Tytelman;
BASEL: Stephen Cripps at Museum Tinguely by Harry Burke

VIEWS BRUSSELS
Bruno Gironcoli at Clearing, “The Absent Museum”at WIELS, and “Neither” at Mendes Wood DM by Laura Herman

VIEWS PARIS
Jasper Spicero at New Galerie, Jean-Michel Wicker at Galerie Édouard Montassut, and Than Hussein Clark at Galerie Crèvecœur by Charles Teyssou and Pierre-Alexandre Mateos

VIEW NEW YORK
Carol Rama's survey exhibition "Antibodies" at the New Museum. By Iona Whittaker

VIEWS NEW YORK
“We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85”at the Brooklyn Museum, and Jef Geys at Essex Street by Annie Godfrey Larmon

VIEWS LOS ANGELES
Kerry James Marshall at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and “Power: Work By African American Women From The Nineteenth Century To Now” at Sprüth Magers by Andrew Berardini

THE END IS NIGHT
Kiev – Athens – Paris. By Dan Bodan
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