Spike / 83

ISSUE 83 (SPRING 2025): Food

 

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Or, it seems, without a few thousand followers and a designer stove. Food is everywhere these days, from jello-sculpting reels and fermentation pop-ups to bike deliveries of so many global cuisines. Our culture’s new A-listers are chefs, their restaurants no longer just stages for social performance, but works of total theater. 

 

How is this buffet of new ideas, techniques, and above all delicious images changing the flavor of art, which, going back to the cave paintings, has dealt with foods less digestible to our feeds – the slimy, the rotten, even the cannibal? In an era of shared plates when the camera eats first, can foodification even help art find its own umami? 

 

Our spring menu is seasonal, promise – there’s just one nature morte.

 

Featuring Healthy Boy Band, Aleksander Baron, Milena Büsch, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, Amber Husain, Whitney Mallett, Diane Severin Nguyen, Andrea Petrini, Steven Phillips-Horst, Torbjørn Rødland, Dieter Roth, Mika Rottenberg, Julian Schnabel, Michael Smith, Philippa Snow, Daniel Spoerri, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, Wendy’s Wok World, Lynn Zelevansky & so many more!

 

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Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike is a bilingual English/German contemporary art magazine, online platform and event space. The flagship print magazine Spike Art Quarterly is aimed at sustaining a vigorous, independent and meaningful art criticism. Essays by leading critics and curators are complemented by other formats offering room for polemics, meditations, and short answers to urgent questions. Published four times a year, Spike offers its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.