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Climate breakdown affects all dimensions of life. Oliver Ressler in Conversation

The interview was conducted on the occasion of the exhibition Barricading the Ice Sheets at Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb which was on view from November 30th 2021 until February 6th 2022.

photo: Boris Berc

Oliver Ressler is a multimedia artist based in Vienna whose work blurs boundaries between art and activism, aiming to bring to light different kinds of alternatives for the economy or society. At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Ressler brings together his entire body of work focused on climate breakdown, for the first time.

The Croatian audience is not so familiar with your work. If you had to present it in a few words, what would they be?

I am an artist and filmmaker who carries out works on economics, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance and social alternatives. The show at MSU comprises films, a multi-channel video installation, a large-scale drawing, a painting, photographic works, lightboxes, banners and sculptural pieces. I am an artist who works closely with social movements.

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