Oliver Ressler

♂ *1970 / Austria

Works

Solo exhibitions

Scenes from the Invention of Democracy

Museum Tinguely, Basel (CH)
24 Sep 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Dog Days Bite Back

Belvedere 21, Wien (AT)
1 Mar 2024 – 2 Jun 2024
Barricading the Ice Sheets

The Showroom, London (GB)
19 Apr 2023 – 24 Jun 2023
Barricading the Ice Sheets

Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (EE)
27 Aug 2022 – 6 Nov 2022
Barricading the Ice Sheets

n.b.k., Berlin (DE)
4 Jun 2022 – 31 Jul 2022
Barricading the Ice Sheets

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
4 Sep 2021 – 21 Nov 2021
Barricading the Ice Sheets

Akademie Graz, Graz (AT)
27 Feb 2020 – 6 Mar 2020
A Rising Tide Sinks Ships

angels barcelona, Barcelona (ES)
16 Jan 2019 – 15 Mar 2019
EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL

Ar/ge Galleria Museo, Bolzano (IT)
26 Feb 2016 – 30 Apr 2016
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Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
3 Oct 2014 – 11 Jan 2015
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Pori Art Museum, Pori (FI)
27 Oct 2010 – 6 Nov 2010
An ideal society creates himself

Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR)
29 Apr 2005 – 21 May 2005
State of Transition

Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana (SI)
29 Oct 2003 – 23 Nov 2003

Group

Fotografie… und jetzt.

RAUMINHALT , Wien (AT)
12 Sep 2026 – 17 Oct 2026

with Markus Guschelbauer, Regina Hügli, Hertha Hurnaus, Leo Kandl, Nikolaus Korab, Elfriede Mejchar, Cornelia Mittendorfer, Stefan Oláh, Herwig Turk
Utopia

The Right to Hope / Recht auf Hoffnung

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
27 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026

with AES+F, Pablo Albarenga, Kader Attia, Yael Bartana, Ursula Biemann, Melanie Bonajo, Eglė Budvytytė, Anetta Mona Chisa, Chto Delat International, Jasmina Cibic, Jordi Colomer, Thomas Demand …
Touch Nature

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
24 Jan 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Uli Aigner, Iris Andraschek, Matei Bejenaru, Vanja Bucan, Larisa Crunteanus, Mark Dion, Inci Eviner, Thomas Feuerstein, Birgit Graschopf, Maximilian Haidacher, Jitka Hanzlova, Edgar Honetschlaeger …
Censored: an archive of silenced voices

Laveronica Arte, Modica (IT)
30 Dec 2024 – 30 Mar 2025

with Ahmet Oeguet, Candice Breitz, Marcelo Exposito, Dora Garcia, Igor Grubic, Adelita Husni-Bey, Emily Jacir, Maryam Jafri, Rabih Mroue
Landschaft re-artikulieren

MMKK Museum , Klagenfurt (AT)
13 Jun 2024 – 1 Sep 2024

with Iris Andraschek, Josef Dabernig, Stephanie Kiwitt, Markus Krottendorfer, Jochen Lempert, Hans Schabus, Lucie Stahl, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen), Karrabing Film Collective
it takes time to build – and a second to wreck it

Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst (DE)
9 Jul 2022 – 6 Nov 2022

with Eiko Grimberg, Susanne Keichel, Anton Roland Laub, Eva Leitolf, Julian Roeder
EARTH BEATS

Naturbild im Wandel

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (CH)
1 Oct 2021 – 6 Feb 2022

with Annelies Strba, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ursula Biemann, Laurence Bonvin, Herbert Brandl, Julian Charriere, Fischli & Weiss, Anna Jermolaewa, Ruth Kaaserer, Mikhail Karikis, Armin Linke …
Oil

Schönheit und Schrecken des Erdölzeitalters Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
4 Sep 2021 – 9 Jan 2022

with Monira Al Qadiri, Yuri Ancarani, Qiu Anxiong, Kader Attia, Lothar Baumgarten, Ursula Biermann, Vanessa Billy, Mark Boulos, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Burtynsky, Mark Dion, Rena Effendi …
RESIST! THE 1960S PROTESTS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL LEGACY

Summer of Photography 2018

Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar, Brussels (BE)
27 Jun 2018 – 26 Aug 2018

with Ursula Biemann, Gilles Caron, Gideon Mendel, Graciela Sacco, Larissa Sansour, Steve Schapiro
Taumel. Navigieren im Unbekannten

Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
10 Feb 2017 – 21 May 2017

with Oliver Hangl, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anna Jermolaewa, Joachim Koester, Jonathan Monk, Bruce Nauman, Benjy Russel, Ruth Anderwald & Leonhard Grond, Ariel Schlesinger, Esther Stocker
SHAME ON YOU

The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje (SI)
26 Nov 2015 – 17 Jan 2016

with Libia Castro, Paula Muhr, Olafur Olafsson, Adrian Paci
Helsinki Photography Biennial 2014

Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki (FI)
27 Mar 2014 – 14 May 2014

with Jawad Al Mahli, Yane Calovski, Ali Cherri, Tamas Dezso, Braco Dimitrijevic, Willie Doherty, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Tomislav Gotovac, Marja Helander, Bernard Just, Mary McIntyre, Hana Miletic …
Under Pressue

Politik in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
1 Nov 2013 – 2 Mar 2014

with Lukas Birk, Klaus Fritsch, Arno Gisinger, Heidrun Holzfeind, Tatiana Lecomte, Markus Oberndorfer
MOBILITÄT III – Geld

Fotogalerie Wien, Wien (AT)
17 Dec 2013 – 29 Jan 2014

with Zanny Begg, Chto Delat International, G.R.A.M., Katharina Gruzei, Johanna Kandl, Leo Kandl, Lisl Ponger, Isa Rosenberger, Wouter Osterholt & Elke Uitentuis, Yorgos Zois
Im Schatten der Gewalt

Neue Galerie Dachau, Dachau (DE)
11 May 2012 – 29 Jul 2012

with Marina Abramovic, Christoph Brech, Martin Le Chevallier, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dragana Zarevac
10a Bienal de Video y Artes Mediales

(BVAM)

Bienal de Video y Artes , Santiago (CL)
10 Jan 2012 – 22 Jan 2012

with Juan Carlos Alom, Juan Carlos Bracho, Jörg Burger, Jean-François Côté, Alexandra Crouwers, Juan Downey, Tracey Emin, Edgar Endress, Harun Farocki, William Forsythe, Gianfranco Foschino, Masaki Fujihata …
Dreams of Power

Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan (PL)
17 Nov 2011 – 18 Dec 2011

with Miroslaw Balka, Hubert Czerepok, Stefaan Dheedene, Sejla Kameric, Susanne Kriemann, David Maljkovic, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Fabian Seiz, Sebastian Stumpf, Johan Thurfjell, Piotr Wyrzykowski
Identität III - Verortung

Fotogalerie Wien, Wien (AT)
14 Dec 2010 – 31 Jan 2011

with Gianmaria Gava, Orit Ishay, Julia Müller-Maenher, Tim Sharp, Christian Wachter
talk talk

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig (DE)
4 Jun 2009 – 27 Jun 2009

with Chris Burden, Yvon Chabrowski, Jeanne Faust, Ronald Gerber, Jochen Gerz, Jean-Luc Godard, Heidrun Holzfeind, Katarina Matiasek, Alex McQuilkin, Bjoern Melhus, Antoni Muntadas, Daniel Pflumm …
2008 Taipei Biennial

Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
13 Sep 2008 – 4 Jan 2009

with Nevin Aladag, Lara Almarcegui, Yochai Avrahami, Roderick Buchanan, Petra Gerschner, Shaun Gladwell, WONG Hoy Cheong, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Allan Sekula, LIU Wei (*1965)
Revolution I Love You

1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy

CAC Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki (GR)
5 May 2008 – 14 Jun 2008

with Nancy Davenport, Zofia Kulik, Mladen Stilinovic, Stefanos Tsivopoulos
politics

Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund (DE)
15 Feb 2008 – 23 Mar 2008

with Aldo Giannotti, Stefano Giurati, Myriam Thyes, Tanya Ury
Reality Crossings

2. Fotofestival Mannheim / Ludwigshafen / Heidelberg 2007

Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen (DE)
22 Sep 2007 – 21 Oct 2007

with Bigert & Bergstroem, Uschi Huber, Lynne Marsh, Oscar van Alphen, Carel van Hees, Geert van Kesteren
2. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg

Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (DE)
22 Sep 2007 – 21 Oct 2007

with Michael Ackerman, Peter Badge, Daniel Barroca, Heather+Patrick Burnett-Rose, Nicole Cohen, Christine de la Garenne, Yannick Demmerle, Christoph Draeger, Rabea Eipperle, Juliane Eirich, Ernst Fuhrmann, Yun Sheng Geng …
HOLY DAMN IT

50.000 Plakate gegen G8

nGbK Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)
26 Apr 2007 – 13 May 2007

with Markus Dorfmüller, Petra Gerschner, Marina Grzinic, Walter Seidl, Allan Sekula
Videoabend

4 Künstler zeigen ausgewählte Videos

Galerie Stadtpark, Krems (AT)
29 Nov 2006 – 20 Dec 2006

with Thomas Freiler, Michael Hoepfner, Sigrid Kurz
Crime and Punishment

Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (EE)
28 Oct 2006 – 10 Dec 2006

with Bigert & Bergstroem, Martin Krenn, Mark Raidpere, Alejandro Vidal
World Unlimited

Museum Arnhem, Arnhem (NL)
3 Jun 2006 – 17 Sep 2006

with Ursula Biemann, Siebren de Haan, Wineke Gartz, Saskia Janssen, Jeanne van Heeswijk & Marten Winters, Julika Rudelius, Lonnie van Brummelen
Capital (It Fails Us Now)

Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (EE)
7 Jan 2006 – 15 Feb 2006

with Knut Asdam, Michael Blum, Maria Eichhorn, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Katya Sander
Ressources - Politics of Belief

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
9 Sep 2005 – 22 Nov 2005

with Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Annika Larsson, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Bülent Sangar, Allan Sekula, Ross Sinclair, (e.) Twin Gabriel, Simon Wachsmuth, Stephen Willats, Carey Young
After the Fact

1. Berlin Photography Festival

Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
24 Sep 2005 – 14 Nov 2005

with Fernando Alvim, Jessica Backhaus, Ursula Biemann, Carlos Capelan, Leif Claesson, Jiri David, DOF, Christoph Draeger, Lukas Einsele, Maria Elvira Escallon, Ulrika Ferm, Rula Halawani …
International\Media\Art\Award 2005

denkbilder / mental images

ZKM | Zentrum Kunst Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
1 Oct 2005 – 31 Oct 2005

with J Tobias Anderson, Ulrich Fischer, Thibault Gleize, Mihai Grecu, Johan Grimonprez, Jean Francois Guiton, ZHOU Hongxiang, Christoph Keller, Mischa Kuball, Gerda Lampalzer, Muda Mathis, Mara Mattuschka …
Ökonomien: Resistenzen

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
9 Jul 2005 – 8 Sep 2005

with Carol Bove, Stephen Craig, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Haacke, Jens Haaning, Matthieu Laurette, L.A. Raeven, Stephen Willats, Carey Young
police

LANDESGALERIE LINZ, Linz (AT)
23 Jun 2005 – 28 Aug 2005

with Francis Alys, Jeremy Deller, Peter Friedl, Rodney Graham, Annika Larsson, Tuomo Manninen, Santiago Sierra, Milica Tomic
RE-ACT

Kunsthallen Nikolaj, København (DK)
9 Apr 2005 – 29 May 2005

with Ursula Biemann, Julius Deutschbauer, Marco Evaristti, Jochen Gerz, Guerrilla Girls, William Kentridge, Jakob Kolding, Igor Sacharow-Ross, Angela Sanders, Gerhard Spring, Milica Tomic
DETOX Aftershock

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
23 Nov 2004 – 5 Dec 2004

with Marc Bijl, Shu Lea Cheang, Minerva Cuevas, Johan Grimonprez, Guerrilla Girls, Sigalit Landau, Aleksandra Mir
there must be an alternative

Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
9 Oct 2004 – 28 Nov 2004

with Bernadette Corporation, Aernout Mik
Double Check Re-Framing Space in Photography: The Other Space, Parallel Histories.

The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje (SI)
10 Sep 2004 – 16 Oct 2004

with Carlos Aires, Barbara Caspar, Petra Gerschner, Frances Goodman, Emma Hedditch, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Dorit Margreiter, Aydan Mürtezaoglu, Tanja Ostojic, Jack Pierson, Erzen Shkololli, Kamera Skura …
EMOÇÃO ART.FICIAL 2.0

Technological Divergencies

itaú cultural, São Paulo (BR)
2 Jul 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Lucas Bambozzi, Minerva Cuevas, Fred Forest, Coco Fusco, Eduardo Kac, Katia Maciel, Marcello Mercado, Simone Michelin, Antoni Muntadas, Michael Snow, Andrei Ujica
EMOÇÃO ART.FICIAL 2.0

Technological Divergencies

itaú cultural, São Paulo (BR)
2 Jul 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Lucas Bambozzi, Minerva Cuevas, Fred Forest, Coco Fusco, Eduardo Kac, Katia Maciel, Marcello Mercado, Simone Michelin, Antoni Muntadas, Michael Snow

Events

The 60th International Art Exhibition

Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
20 Apr 2024 – 24 Nov 2024

with Claudia Andujar, Miguel Angel Rojas, Ivan Argote, Karimah Ashadu, Zanny Begg, Ursula Biemann, Kudzanai Chiurai, Isaac Chong Wai, River Claure, Liz Collins, Miguel Covarrubias, Giana De Dier …
Artissima 2023

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
3 Nov 2023 – 5 Nov 2023

with Oystein Aasan, Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Almeida, Adam Avikainen, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Renate Bertlmann, Walead Beshty, Diego Bianchi, Barbara Bloom …
NOORDERLICHT INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL 2020

GENERATION Z

Noorderlicht, Heerenveen (NL)
18 Jul 2020 – 20 Sep 2020

with Tasio Bidegain, Verena Blok, Aya Bundurakis, Kelvin Haizel, Oktawian Jurczykowski, Tanya Klimovich, Lena Kuzmich, Ine Lamers, Sheng-Wen Lo, Marie Lukasiewicz, Nadine Stijns & Amal Alhaag, Viktor Naumovski …
FOTOBOKFESTIVAL OSLO

FOTOBOKFESTIVAL OSLO, Oslo (NO)
10 Sep 2020 – 20 Sep 2020

with Ignacio Acosta, Sammy Baloji, Mandy Barker, Erik Berglin, Paul Cupido, Jon Gorospe, Michael Light, Yoshinori Mizutani, George Osodi, Zied Ben Romdhane, Corinne Vionnet
VIDEONALE.17: REFRACTED REALITIES

Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts

Videonale, Bonn (DE)
21 Feb 2019 – 24 Feb 2019

with Eric Baudelaire, Zanny Begg, Andreas Bunte, Shu Lea Cheang, Marianna Christofides, Chto Delat International, Saara Ekstroem, Johan Grimonprez, Laura Huertas Millan, SU Hui-yu, Sohrab Hura, Deimantas Narkevicius …
Summer of Photography 2018

7th Brussels Biennale for Contemporaray Photography

Summer of Photography, Brussels (BE)
27 Jun 2018 – 2 Sep 2018

with Bruno Barbey, Nina Berman, Dominique Berrety, Pauline Beugnies, Pep Bonet, Andrea Bruce, Christian Carez, Claude Dityvon, Philip Jones Griffiths, Josef Koudelka, Leonard Pongo, Marc Riboud …
internationaler\medien\preis\2005 für Wissenschaft und Kunst

Denkbilder. Von den Vorstellungsbildern bis zur Gehirnforschung

arte TV, Funk & Fernsehen (DE)
16 Oct 2005 – 24 Oct 2005

with J Tobias Anderson, Ulrich Fischer, Thibault Gleize, Mihai Grecu, Johan Grimonprez, Jean Francois Guiton, ZHOU Hongxiang, Christoph Keller, Mischa Kuball, Gerda Lampalzer, Muda Mathis, Mara Mattuschka …
Barricading the Ice Sheets

mit Reinhard Braun

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
Project Groundswell

Zwischen Bild und Bewusstsein: Kunst im Zeitalter der Klimakrise

FOTOHOF, Salzburg (AT)
Notfallkunst und Klimaaktivismus

Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (AT)