Oliver Ressler produces installations, projects in public space, and films on economics, democracy, climate breakdown, racism, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Ressler’s solo exhibitions include National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico; and Belvedere 21, Vienna.
For INNSBRUCK INTERNATIONAL, Ressler will present his films We Are the Forest Enclosed by the Wall (2025) and After the Barrage, the Deluge (2022), followed by a discussion moderated by Lorena Moreno Vera, independent curator based in Vienna.

We Are the Forest Enclosed by the Wall (2025)
Single-channel 4K video. Colour, sound. Italian w/ English subtitles, 35.00 mins.
– The Arneo Forest Custodians (Custodi del Bosco d’Arneo) fights to preserve a territory where millions of olive oil trees have been lost to bacteria, recurrent drought, salty water wells and wildfires.

After the Barrage, the Deluge (2022)
Single-channel 4K video. Colour, sound. French, Arabic and English w/ English subtitles, 28.00 mins.
– The film discusses two areas in Casablanca where major infrastructure projects have caused social upheaval on a huge scale.

Tickets: € 11,- / € 9,-
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