Alexander Leissle is Digital Editor at ArtReview. He was previously assistant editor at The Times Literary Supplement, where he covered German literature and contemporary fiction. In periods of spare time, he has contributed reviews to The Quietus, translated from German, served on the jury at KC Grad in Belgrade, and been known to attend the cricket.
A new group show and study programme at Berlin’s Spore Initiative reconnects the Palestinian story to the land: how it is experienced, remembered, worked, violated
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
The Venezuelan artist’s epistolary films, screened at last year’s Lofoten International Art Festival, capture poetic potential in the evolving technologies of communication
