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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.

Inner Nature: Female Pentimento's Digital Theology of Transformation

In the liminal space between earth and ether, where apocalyptic landscapes bleed into celestial reverie, Female Pentimento orchestrates visual symphonies that feel less like photographs than theological documents.

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

At OK Linz, Swedish artist Arvida Byström interrogates AI, sexuality, and digital creation through mythology, examining our responsibility as creators of artificial beings in "Who's Your Daddy?"

Immortality Trip: How Psilocybin Alters the Biology of Aging

Psilocybin, famed for psychedelic journeys, may hold remarkable anti-aging potential. Groundbreaking research reveals it significantly extends cellular lifespan and improves overall survival.

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Humiliation Rituals

Where identity is just content, what happens when the likes dry up?

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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Wolfgang Tillmans Rethinks Photography and the Future at Centre Pompidou

Wolfgang Tillmans transforms the Centre Pompidou's library into a sweeping, poetic study of photography, knowledge, and utopia on the eve of the museum's five-year closure.

ÖTZA Unbound: Levi van Gelder's Queer Reincarnation of a Neolithic Icon

In ÖTZA, UNINTERRUPTED, Levi van Gelder dismantles scientific narratives through queer storytelling, challenging historical conventions and repositioning Europe's oldest mummy within pop culture.

The Call: Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, and the Ritual of AI

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

Inside Harley Weir’s Garden of Memory and Mutation

Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS and the Digital Afterlife

Myth, Memory, and the Street: Theodoros Gennitsakis’ ΧΑΟΣ

Echoes in the Void: Alexander Gronsky’s 'Less Than One'

Nadia Lee Cohen and Martin Parr Reimagine Julie Bullard

Tobias Spichtig's Taxi zur Kunst: A Painting Is a Taxi Is a Joke Is a Portal

Wolfgang Tillmans Rethinks Photography and the Future at Centre Pompidou

Wolfgang Tillmans transforms the Centre Pompidou's library into a sweeping, poetic study of photography, knowledge, and utopia on the eve of the museum's five-year closure.

ÖTZA, UNINTERRUPTED by Levi van Gelder

In ÖTZA, UNINTERRUPTED, Levi van Gelder dismantles scientific narratives through queer storytelling, challenging historical conventions and repositioning Europe's oldest mummy within pop culture.

The Call: Holly Herndon, Mat Dryhurst, and the Ritual of AI

At Serpentine North, artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst transform AI training into a choral ritual—inviting us to reimagine machine learning as collective, participatory art.

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.

Inside Harley Weir’s Garden of Memory and Mutation

In The Garden, Harley Weir turns photography into alchemy, merging fluid memory, feminist desire, and chemical revolt to explore the unruly terrain of womanhood, nostalgia, and care.

Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS and the Digital Afterlife

Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS at Ringsted Galleriet confronts the eerie allure of griefbots, blending digital resurrection with ritualized mourning in a simulated sacred space.

Myth, Memory, and the Street: Theodoros Gennitsakis’ ΧΑΟΣ

In ΧΑΟΣ, Theodoros Gennitsakis fuses myth, memory, and street culture into a raw, poetic archive of northern Greece.

Echoes in the Void: Alexander Gronsky’s 'Less Than One'

In Less Than One, Alexander Gronsky maps Russia’s sparsely populated frontiers, exposing haunting echoes of human life where the land itself becomes a spectral witness to abandonment.

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