Protest placards on climate change
In recent years, countless extreme weather events have clearly indicated that climate change is not only a future phenomenon but is already taking place. Some of the effects of global warming – desertification, more frequent droughts, less frequent but more intense precipitation, and lower crop yields – are inflaming existing social conflicts. This vicious circle fuels humanitarian crises and civil wars that amplify political, economic, and environmental disasters.
Oliver Ressler
OLIVER RESSLER is an artist and filmmaker who produces installations, projects in public spaces, and films on economics, democracy, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance, and social alternatives. Ressler had comprehensive solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico and Belvedere 21, Vienna. He has participated in more than 400 group exhibitions, including Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris and the biennials in Taipei, Lyon, Gyumri, Venice, Athens, Quebec, Jeju, Kyiv, Gothenburg, Istanbul, and at Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017.