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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks 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...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Jun 9

"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)."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I 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...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · May 30

Issue 7 of Commodity Frontiers is live on our new website! Contributors explore carbon frontiers through power, conflict, and sovereignty. journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · May 22

Will 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...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · May 12

Presentation 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.

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Apr 26

The 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...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Apr 16

Join me in calling on our European leaders to break free from Trump, Putin and fossil gas: act.350.org/sign/europe-...

Europe: 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 ...

act.350.org

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Apr 8

Glad to be part of this show curated by Branka Bencic
mmsu.hr/en/event/iza...

Behind the Tide - Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Apr 2

The 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.

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Mar 26

Looking 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...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Mar 13

Happy to be part of this endeavor!
kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/udstillin...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thank you

Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Mar 11

A 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_...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today in Lecce, Italy

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Feb 19

Here is the introduction text for FIELD Global Update by Greg Sholette: field-journal.com/issue-29-win...

2025 Global Update

Gregory Sholette

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Feb 19

FIELD 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...

Austria on the Far-right Frontline

Oliver Ressler

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Nortes @nortes1.bsky.social · Feb 9

◾▪️El mundo de la cultura apoya a Pablo de Soto. #Asturias #cultura #LABoral #Gijón

✍ @diegodiaz1981.bsky.social

www.nortes.me/2025/02/09/e...

El mundo de la cultura apoya a Pablo de Soto: "No podemos permitir esta censura" - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia

Más de 700 profesionales nacionales e internacionales defienden el trabajo del ex director de LABoral, y rechazan un cese "basado en vagas conjeturas".

www.nortes.me

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Feb 6

Letter of support for Pablo de Soto’s work as director of LABoral. Please share and sign!!!
www.puxalaboral.info/eng/

Eng – Puxa LABoral!

www.puxalaboral.info

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Feb 4

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: weact.campact.de/petitions/mu...

Musk, 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 ...

weact.campact.de

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Feb 3

Bestärken 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...

Jetzt 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!

mein.aufstehn.at

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Jan 28

“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...

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Jan 22

Severe headache from Trump inauguration and anticipation of an upcoming FPÖ-led government in Austria

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Oliver Ressler @oliverressler.bsky.social · Jan 15

34 min long feature about my work in the culture program “Metropolis” in the television channel Televisión Española.

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Metropolis, TVE: Oliver Ressler, January 2025

Metrópolis ofrece un recorrido por la trayectoria de Oliver Ressler, artista y cineasta austríaco conocido por su trabajo con diversos…

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LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial @laboral.bsky.social · Jan 13

El 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.

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