Spike Art Magazine

Pop-up Cukrarna, Lobby

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Spike Art Magazine

Throughout Festival Indigo, Cukrarna will host a three-day pop-up by Spike Art Magazine, one of the leading international magazines dedicated to contemporary art and culture. Visitors will be able to browse and purchase the latest issue, Spirituality, as well as a selection of previous editions, including Everything’s Computer.

For nearly two decades, Spike Art Magazine has been a leading voice in contemporary art, critical theory, and visual culture, shaping international discourse through essays, interviews, and critical writing. The magazine is also a media partner of The End of Images, a conversation between Spike contributing editor Dean Kissick and British designer David Rudnick, exploring the future of images, visual culture, and the digital world.

The team at Spike Art Magazine also produces a podcast featuring conversations on contemporary art, culture, and current issues. The series brings together conversations, interviews, and discussions with artists, writers, creatives, and thinkers. Listen to the Spike Podcast on Spotify.

Spike #88: “Spirituality”
In public life, online worlds, politics, and art, a spiritual impulse is resurfacing. From Gen Z’s turn to Trad Cath to global Christian nationalism, from devotional imagery in fashion to so-called “network spirituality”, AI oracles like Spiralism, Rosalía’s mystic turn, or #manifesting, spirituality flickers in our ever more hallucinatory, brutal world. Does it reflect a renewed hunger for order and existential gravity amid secular thinness, decaying institutions, and collapsing faith in basic rights and law – in the very idea of humanity?
If this pull runs through the present, art has always been one of its privileged arenas – from the icon to the monochrome, from Paul Thek to Florentina Holzinger’s Sancta (2025). Can there still be such a thing as contemplative immersion in a work of art? Do images still make the invisible visible? And how should suffering be shown? Spike turned to spirituality to ask what forms it takes today.

Spike #87: “Everything’s Computer”
Something is crackling in digital culture again. Not with the clean futurity promised by Net Art, nor the speculative boosterism of Web3, nor the infinite mandala of generative AI, which is already a drag to look at and might yet overwrite human history. The new digital is murkier, more communal, subterranean, if not outright anti-algorithmic: shared worlds instead of standalone works, distributed authorship and infinite reproducibility instead of individual signatures, semi-private circulation instead of mass-feed visibility. If Exocapitalism names a society in which capital no longer needs humans in its machines to thrive, lore names an emergent counter-tendency: a medium built from mythologies, backstories, and expandable narrative worlds that circulate, mutate, and accumulate meaning collectively – whether as utopia, conspiracy, or fast-cash brand. This spring, Spike turned to the digital sphere to ask what kind of culture is beginning to cohere.