Oliver Ressler
born 1970 in Knittelfeld, Austria, lives and works in Vienna. He
studied at the University for Applied Arts, Vienna. In 1998 he was
artist-in-resident at Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada. Oliver
Ressler is an artist who carries out projects on various
socio-political themes. Since 1994 he has been concerned with
exhibitions, projects in public space and videos on issues such as
racism, migration, genetic engineering, economic globalization, social
alternatives and various forms of resistance. Selected solo
exhibitions/projects include Alternative Economics, Alternative
Societies, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg (2004); European
Corrections Corporation, Kunstraum München (2004); "This is what
democracy looks like!", Platform, Berlin (2003); Anti-corporate
globalization projects, Kunst Raum Goethestrasse, Linz (2002); Border
Crossing Services, Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg (2001),
Sustainable Propaganda, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2000); Anti
Gene Worlds: Oppositions to Genetic Engineering, exhibition in the
Forum Stadtpark, bill poster series in Graz (1998); Institutional
Racism, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (1997). Selected recent group
exhibitions include: "fly utopia!", Transmediale.04 - International
Media Art Festival, Berlin (2004); Entering EU, Kunstenaarsinitiatief
Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen (2004); The Interventionists: Art in the
Social Sphere, MASS MoCA - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Adams (2004); Sparwasser HQ at Platform, Platform Garanti
Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (2004); Borderline cases, Galerija
SKC, Belgrade (2004); Detox 04. Crossover Jam Culture, Sorlandets
Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand (2004); Double Check - Re-Framing Space in
Photography, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje (2004); Minority
Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark, Aarhus
Festival of Contemporary Art, Aarhus (2004); Quicksand in De Pijp, org.
by SKOR, urban space in Amsterdam (2004); Attack! - Art and War in the
Media Age, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2003); Cartographies, Index. The
Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2002); Reactions, Exit
Art, New York; Democracy When?, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions;
Lines of Mobility, Kunstverein Nürnberg/ADG, Nuremberg, Germany (2002);
Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton {with David Thorne}
(2002); What, How & For Whom, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2001);
World-Information.Org, Centre Brussels (2000), Brussels, The global 500
and Other Stories, W139, Amsterdam (2000); Social Machine Money, O.K -
Center for Contemporary Art, Linz (2000).
