Johanna Hedva,
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Isis Semaj-Hall, Santiago Yahuarcani & Miguel A. López, Natasha Tontey & Riar Rizaldi, Lamorna Ash, Steven Phillips-Horst, Aodhan Madden, Patrick McGraw, Joy Williams, Jamieson Webster, Shana Moulton, Fabian Schöneich,
Mark Leckey & Martin McGeown,
Korakrit Arunanondchai,
Nicolas Bourriaud, the memory of Koyo Kouoh, Jesus Christ, Tea Hačić-Vlahović, and more!
For its Summer 2026 issue, amid SPIRITUALITY's current resurgence,
Spike asked: What are people reaching for beyond what can be measured? The answers are eclectic, emphatic, and most of all personal: an essay about the human voice's part in the divine; portraits of mystic artists
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Santiago Yahuarcani, and Natasha Tontey; a psychoanalytic look at Renaissance painting's body of Christ; a spiritual history of perfumes; a soulful reading of America's perhaps greatest living author, Joy Williams; queries of Gen Z's search for God, the disappearance of atheism, and a new form of contemplation; and lifestyle recommendations to purge the soul, sometimes devilishly. Plus, some backpage words of wisdom: "Devotion and humiliation are holy."
Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike (Spike Art Quarterly) is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.
