Alexander Leissle

On London Contemporary Music Festival’s ‘The Big Sad’

On Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’ and the medieval turn

Karen Archey’s ‘After Institutions’ looks to reposition and expand institutional critique for a radically changing world

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

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

Selected by Alexander Leissle

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

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 Munch Museum in Oslo’s second edition seeks to understand our era’s loosening grip on reality, whatever that means, no less looks like

The artist’s auto-documentary is a protest song made for her childhood village in Northern Norway