Alexander Leissle

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

Bianca Hlywa: In Defence of Disgusting Art

Alexander LeissleArtReview01 April 2025

At St. Chads, London, the artist has installed a smelly, sticky clump of live yeast culture in the gallery. It’s the beginnings of a lesson about art, life and the creatures we create

Art Lovers Movie Club: Valentina Alvarado Matos, ‘Film Letters I-IV’, 2020

Alexander Leissleartreview.com27 February 2025

The Venezuelan artist’s epistolary films, screened at last year’s Lofoten International Art Festival, capture poetic potential in the evolving technologies of communication

Lynette Yiadom Boakye’s Theatre of the Silent

Alexander LeissleArtReview18 February 2025

Yiadom-Boakye’s new paintings at Corvi-Mora explore a dialectic between expression and enigma

Gili Tal: Pretend It’s a City

Alexander LeissleArtReview17 January 2025

‘The Cascades Plus’ at Cabinet, London abstracts our experience of urban environments, but its ephemerality conceals more sombre implications

Art Lovers Movie Club: Pejvak, ‘Shokouk: A Cosmicomedy in Four Acts’, 2023

Alexander Leissleartreview.com03 January 2025

Now Showing: In this time-collapsing tale of Soviet astronautics, the artist duo ask who space is really for

Saša Tkačenko’s Letter to Low

Alexander Leissleartreview.com19 June 2024

Tkačenko’s ‘I Could Live In Hope’ at Eugster, Belgrade remembers the slowcore band, and a past he can never retrieve

Joyce Joumaa: That Was Then and So Is Now

Alexander LeissleArtReview10 June 2024

In drawing out a seemingly bizarre historical immigrant experience, Lebanese artist Joyce Joumaa reminds us how little has changed today