Spike #88
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: Spirituality
Spike explores the latest revival of spirituality in culture and asks: what are people reaching for beyond what can be measured? Issue #88 issue answers in the eclectic, the emphatic, and most of all the personal. Highlights include Johanna Hedva’s essay about the human voice’s part in the divine, portraits of mystic artists Lee “Scratch” Perry, Jamieson Webster’s psychoanalytic look at Renaissance painting’s body of Christ, a spiritual history of perfumes by Élisabeth de Feydeau, and Patrick McGraw’s soulful reading of Joy Williams. Also inside: queries of Gen Z’s search for God by Lamorna Ash, the disappearance of atheism by Steven Phillips-Horst, and a new form of contemplation by Aodhan Madden, and LIFEMAXXING recommendations to purge the soul.
Berlin, Germany, 22x28cm, 160 pages, Summer 2026, Quarterly