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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.

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.

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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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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.

Sweetness is a Weapon: 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.

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

Wolfgang Tillmans Rethinks Photography and the Future at Centre Pompidou

ÖTZA, UNINTERRUPTED by Levi van Gelder

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

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Sacred Profanities: FANATICS II by Julian-Jakob Kneer

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.

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.

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