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Crystalline Pyramids, Burnt Churches: Christelle Oyiri’s Berlin Diptych

In Berlin, Christelle Oyiri stages two liturgies of bass and belief—cast tapes, acrylic skulls, and a Memphis pyramid—where heaven glitches, hell hisses, and memory hardens into ritual hardware.

Valeurs Refuge: Natacha Donzé’s Cycles of Love, Decay, and Digital Afterimages

In valeurs refuge, Natacha Donzé constructs a cycle where love, death, capital, and memory dissolve into glowing equilibrium.

One Of Us Is Real And It’s Not You: Supermetal Bosch & Evil Biscuit

In this joint show at Galerie Yeche Lange, Supermetal Bosch and Evil Biscuit stage a surreal convergence of nostalgia, speculative economies, and algorithmic collapse.

Poets, Gamblers, Fools — Jon Rafman & Parker Ito stage a Post-Internet revenant at Lubov

Jon Rafman and Parker Ito excavate the corpse of Post-Internet art, finding it neither dead nor alive but haunting—a spectral reminder that artistic movements persist as ghosts demanding judgment from the present.

Dummodo me ames: Philipp Timischl’s Algorithmic Liturgy

At the ecclesiastical site of Layr, St. Andrew’s Church, Salzburg, Philipp Timischl’s exhibition "Dummodo me ames" makes a radical incursion into sacred architecture, proposing a form of post-devotional aesthetics born from machinic imagination and queer affect.

Monoliths of Faith: Justus Dahinden’s Kung-Tung Church

At Taitung’s edge rises a concrete prism—no cliché cathedral, but a “simple rectangular prism, its walls cast in béton brut.” Dahinden forged light, structure, and devotion into a radical modernist silence.

Jenna Kaës's AURARIUM: Memory, Matter, and the Sacred Void

In AURARIUM, Jenna Kaës reanimates a former tuberculosis dispensary in Nantes as a secular reliquary of memory and matter—an intangible ritual where objects haunt, heal, and quietly speak.

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Understanding the ‘Slopocene’

How the failures of AI can reveal its inner workings

Neo-Futurism

As Silicon Valley adopts a century-old movement’s aesthetics, Spike’s editor at large resumes her tech column to ask: What forces compel us to reach back to some romanticized past?

The rise and rise of Lotta Volkova

‘I don’t look at it from a perspective of fashion.’

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Under the Eye of Heaven: Helga Vockenhuber’s Corona Gloriae at the Pantheon

Helga Vockenhuber’s Corona Gloriae fractures divine perfection beneath the Pantheon’s oculus, transforming suffering into a shared, luminous possibility — a dialogue between chaos, cosmos, and redemption.

Hauntologies of the Forgotten: Ethna Rose O’Regan’s AFTER MAGDALENE

Through stark, ghostly interiors, O'Regan’s AFTER MAGDALENE archives the psychic residue of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, reclaiming memory from institutional erasure with quiet, radical intent.

Højvangen Church and the Architecture of Secular Grace

Sacred Profanities: FANATICS II by Julian-Jakob Kneer

Sweet World: Jeff Koons and Travis Ficarra

Yuka Hirac: Between Death and Digital

Han Kjøbenhavn S/S 26: Suburban Armor for the End Times

Inner Nature: Female Pentimento's Digital Theology of Transformation

Who's Your Daddy? Arvida Byström's Orphaned AI and the Death of Digital Intimacy

Immortality Trip: How Psilocybin Alters the Biology of Aging

Under the Eye of Heaven: Helga Vockenhuber’s Corona Gloriae at the Pantheon

Hauntologies of the Forgotten: Ethna Rose O’Regan’s AFTER MAGDALENE

Through stark, ghostly interiors, O'Regan’s AFTER MAGDALENE archives the psychic residue of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, reclaiming memory from institutional erasure with quiet, radical intent.

Josefine Rauch’s Temple Road and the Quiet Cartography of Belief

Josefine Rauch's Temple Road captures the spectral spirituality of Frankfurt’s industrial peripheries, where migrant faith communities transform warehouses into sacred space—quietly, and with radical intimacy.

Højvangen Church and the Architecture of Secular Grace

In Skanderborg, a town without recent cathedrals, a new church dares to rethink the sacred. Højvangen by Henning Larsen quietly builds a space for presence, loss, and light without preaching.

Sacred Profanities: FANATICS II by Julian-Jakob Kneer

Julian-Jakob Kneer's FANATICS II examines pop culture devotion through forensic vitrines that blur boundaries between worship and pathology, revealing the structural similarities between childhood nostalgia and cult ideology.

Sweet World: Jeff Koons and Travis Ficarra

In Sweet World’s debut exhibition, Travis Ficarra and Jeff Koons collide in a spatial confrontation of seduction, rot, and synthetic allure. The result is a candy-coated trap of uncanny power.

Yuka Hirac: Between Death and Digital

Tokyo's Yuka Hirac transforms death into art, using distorted imagery and Buddhist philosophy to explore authentic identity in the digital age through her haunting zine practice.

Han Kjøbenhavn S/S 26: Suburban Armor for the End Times

Han Kjøbenhavn S/S 26 transforms Copenhagen's suburban masculinity into apocalyptic armor. Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen weaponizes nostalgia, creating fashion for the end times of growing up.

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