Alexander Leissle

Alexander Leissle is Digital Editor at ArtReview. He was formerly an assistant editor at The TLS.

Steirischer Herbst 2023 Review: As Above, so Below

Alexander LeissleArtReview09 October 2023

The contemporary art festival’s latest edition, ‘Humans and Demons, investigates what becomes of our ethics in dark times

Patrick Langley’s Music of the Past

Alexander LeissleArtReview25 September 2023

‘The Variations’ shifts between fantasy, the gothic and a study of grief – to varying degrees of success

Cemile Sahin: Art in the Age of Mechanical Warfare

Alexander LeissleArtReview12 June 2023

Transforming information into aesthetics, Sahin explores the friction between a macro and micro view of history and of human life, both forever intertwined

Ndayé Kouagou, Court Jester

Alexander LeissleArtReview15 May 2023

‘Direction, Direction?’ at Sundy, London revels in the unreality of online living, self-fashioning and limitless content consumption

Sue Williamson’s Funereal Vitality

Alexander LeissleArtReview28 March 2023

A new show at The Box, Plymouth presents a careful overview of a career dedicated to memory and colonial injustice

ESG: The Little-Known Band That Defined an Era

Alexander LeissleArtReview13 March 2023

‘Come Away with ESG’ by Cheri Percy commits scholarly study to an album sculpted by its time – and which shaped so many that followed

TARWUK Recover Art History in the Wake of War

Alexander LeissleArtReview13 February 2023

‘Posadila sam kost u zimskom vrtu’ at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London sees an artist duo combat past trauma, prevailing uncertainty and tentative utopianism