Spike is an independent art magazine, digital platform, and event space in Berlin run by artist Rita Vitorelli. Unconventional and unexpected, Spike chronicles the urgent and the forever in cultural criticism. Spike is pushy and poetic, known for blending provocative and rigorous writing.

In this issue: Salad Days!

Or How It Feels Like To Be Young And Restless! Enjoy Failure! Dringend (German for urgent, pressing, or desperately) Too Alive!

Issue #86 of Spike makes it clear that the kids are, in fact, alright—and that youth remains the vitalist condition for grappling with the now. Highlights includes features on shitpostmodernism from the slopgeneration, a hopeful internet, the ecstatic weirdness of teenage prose, the promise of Zoomer activism, and the de-romanticization of dying young. Artists Rene Matić, Brian Oakes, and Lukas Posch are thoughtfully profiled alongside this issue's exploration of youth within the all-at-onceness.

Berlin, Germany; 22 x 28 cm; 160 pages; Quarterly; Winter 2025/26

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