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Igor Elukov’s “Book of Miracles” and the Theology of the Tundra

In the icy expanse of northern Russia, Igor Elukov’s Book of Miracles reimagines creation as collaboration with chaos—where theology, tundra, and technology collapse into one sublime uncertainty.

THE CLINIC OF THE UNBODIED: TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE AND CONTROL

In The Clinic of the Unbodied, Herwig Scherabon turns Culterim Berlin into a posthuman theatre of care, where empathy, control, and the body’s remains merge into a haunting speculative ecology.

GOD’S ARMY by Folkert de Jong at St. Chads

Folkert de Jong’s GOD’S ARMY at St. Chads Gallery turns faith into debris—a haunting choreography of fractured icons, industrial flesh, and posthuman lament.

Dear God, if you really exist, I beg you. This is more than enough. We don't need anything else. We’ll manage somehow. So please, don't give us anything more, and don't take anything more from us. I beg you please, Dear God. Let us be together like this forever.

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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.

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.

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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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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

Sacred Profanities: FANATICS II by Julian-Jakob Kneer

Sweet World: Jeff Koons and Travis Ficarra

Yuka Hirac: Between Death and Digital

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