Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 13/02/2026My new project for “Green Line”, curated by Oto Hudec, part of European Capital of Culture Trenčín 2026 is finally open to the public. “Out of the Passage to Seize Back the Sky” is a photographic installation consisting of 5 lightboxes in Trenčín’s underground passage www.ressler.at/out_of_the_p... 111
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025When the Paris agreement was introduced ten years ago, there was no shortage of criticism. How can you come up with the idea to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels with an agreement relied on voluntary national pledges and lacking strict enforcement of emissions cuts? 131
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Thanks to @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation for the The Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative. “Carbon Capture: ‘Let there be cracks’” can now be downloaded for free from this link: journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... 062
Reposted by Oliver ResslerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/06/2025"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."meditationsinanemergency.comSome Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of ViolenceI think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a... 18924306
Reposted by Oliver ResslerCommodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Issue 7 of Commodity Frontiers is live on our new website! Contributors explore carbon frontiers through power, conflict, and sovereignty. journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... 0115
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Will be on the train for the next 9 hours on my way to the conference “Lifelines: Re-Imagining Infrastructures between Culture and Construction“ and related screening of my film “The Desert Lives” in Braunschweig. www.tu-braunschweig.de/fileadmin/Re... 040
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Presentation of a Romanian version of the contested “Oil Spill Flag” from 2020 at RAD Art Fair Sculpture Park, Bucharest. The flag has a popular Norwegian predecessor. Further information: www.ressler.at/oil_spill_flag/ In addition some of my placards “Still Standing in the Wreckage” are presented. 061
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025The publication “Dog Days Bite Back” published on the occasion of my solo exhibition at Belvedere 21 will be presented at Open House at Belvedere 21, Vienna, on 27.04.2025 at 2:00 PM. Please join me in a conversation with Belvedere’s chief curator Luisa Ziaja. www.belvedere.at/event/open-h... 041
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Join me in calling on our European leaders to break free from Trump, Putin and fossil gas: act.350.org/sign/europe-...act.350.orgEurope: Break free from ‘TrumpGas’!First PutinGas and now TrumpGas: Europe's addiction to fossil gas is chaining us to the whims of authoritarian leaders. Gas is also expensive and disastrous for our climate. We should replace it with ... 010
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Glad to be part of this show curated by Branka Bencic mmsu.hr/en/event/iza...mmsu.hrBehind the Tide - Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti 020
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The planned expansion of Porsche’s Nardò Technical Centre threatened the very survival of the last forest left in the Puglia region of Southern Italy. The Bosco d’Arneo, with centuries-old oaks was at risk of being logged to make space for nine new test tracks for electric vehicle testing. 020
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Looking forward to meeting you at the opening of “Fixing Futures. Planetary futures between speculation and control” at Museum Giersch at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main on April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM. The exhibition will be open to the public till August 31, 2025. www.mggu.de/ausstellunge... 030
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Happy to be part of this endeavor! kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/udstillin... 031
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A few images from “Contours of the Coming World” I did in collaboration with Claudia Schioppa, who carried out the amazing 20 ink drawings. Images from the show “Imagine Climate Dignity”, still open till 09.06.2025 in Künstlerhaus Wien. www.ressler.at/contours_of_... 162
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025FIELD Global Update for 2025 is out now. Greg Sholette and Grant Kester asked a few cultural producers including myself to write about the recent far-right parliamentary shifts, and what those mean for socially engaged art. Find my report on Austria here: field-journal.com/issue-29-win...field-journal.comAustria on the Far-right FrontlineOliver Ressler 171
Reposted by Oliver ResslerNortes @nortes1.bsky.social · 09/02/2025◾▪️El mundo de la cultura apoya a Pablo de Soto. #Asturias #cultura #LABoral #Gijón ✍ @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social www.nortes.me/2025/02/09/e...nortes.meEl mundo de la cultura apoya a Pablo de Soto: "No podemos permitir esta censura" - Nortes | Centradas en la periferiaMás de 700 profesionales nacionales e internacionales defienden el trabajo del ex director de LABoral, y rechazan un cese "basado en vagas conjeturas". 11210
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Letter of support for Pablo de Soto’s work as director of LABoral. Please share and sign!!! www.puxalaboral.info/eng/puxalaboral.infoEng – Puxa LABoral! 040
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This cause is close to my heart - please sign: weact.campact.de/petitions/mu...weact.campact.deMusk, Döpfner, Zuckerberg: Unsere Demokratie ist nicht käuflich!Wir alle haben das Bild gesehen: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg und Jeff Bezos, drei der reichsten Männer der Welt, auf Ehrenplätzen bei der Amtseinführung von Donald Trump. Bezos, der kurz vor der Wahl ... 040
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Bestärken wir die demokratischen Parteien, #SPÖ, #ÖVP, #Neos, #Grüne darin, sich nochmal an den Verhandlungstisch zu setzen. Dennoch ist es nicht zu spät für eine weltoffene #Regierung. Unterstützt dieses Anliegen hier: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/re...mein.aufstehn.atJetzt unterzeichnen: SPÖ, NEOS, ÖVP und Grüne zurück an den Verhandlungstisch!Noch ist es nicht zu spät für eine zukunftsorientierte und weltoffene Regierung. Bestärken wir die demokratischen Parteien darin nochmal über eine Koalition zu verhandeln! 131
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025“Touch Nature” at Lentos Kunstmuseum has opened last week. The 9.5-meter-long ink drawing “Property Will Cost Us the Earth” is presented in combination with “Still Standing in the Wreckage”, cardboard placards that showed up in climate action in London in 2023. www.lentos.at/en/exhibitio... 082
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Severe headache from Trump inauguration and anticipation of an upcoming FPÖ-led government in Austria 190
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 15/01/202534 min long feature about my work in the culture program “Metropolis” in the television channel Televisión Española. vimeo.com/1047113607?s...vimeo.comMetropolis, TVE: Oliver Ressler, January 2025Metrópolis ofrece un recorrido por la trayectoria de Oliver Ressler, artista y cineasta austríaco conocido por su trabajo con diversos… 050
Reposted by Oliver ResslerLABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial @laboral.bsky.social · 13/01/2025El programa Metrópolis de @rtvecom.bsky.social recorrerá hoy la trayectoria de @oliverressler.bsky.social, artista que presentó en LABoral en 2023 la exposición 'Barricadas en los hielos', dedicada al activismo por la justicia climática. 💥 No te lo pierdas, hoy a la 01.00 h, en La 2. 031
Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Installation shot of my film “Anubumin” (2017) carried out in collaboration with Zanny Begg in the exhibition “Poetics of Power” at Kunsthaus Graz, curated by Andreja Hribernik and Nini Palavandishvili. The show is still open till 25.05.2025 Photo: N. Lackner www.museum-joanneum.at/.../poetics-... 060