When the Paris agreement was introduced ten years ago, there was no shortage of criticism. How can you come up with the idea to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels with an agreement relied on voluntary national pledges and lacking strict enforcement of emissions cuts?

Thanks to @marjolijndijkman.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation for the The Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative. “Carbon Capture: ‘Let there be cracks’” can now be downloaded for free from this link: journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

Will be on the train for the next 9 hours on my way to the conference “Lifelines: Re-Imagining Infrastructures between Culture and Construction“ and related screening of my film “The Desert Lives” in Braunschweig.
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Presentation of a Romanian version of the contested “Oil Spill Flag” from 2020 at RAD Art Fair Sculpture Park, Bucharest. The flag has a popular Norwegian predecessor. Further information: www.ressler.at/oil_spill_flag/
In addition some of my placards “Still Standing in the Wreckage” are presented.

The publication “Dog Days Bite Back” published on the occasion of my solo exhibition at Belvedere 21 will be presented at Open House at Belvedere 21, Vienna, on 27.04.2025 at 2:00 PM. Please join me in a conversation with Belvedere’s chief curator Luisa Ziaja.
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The planned expansion of Porsche’s Nardò Technical Centre threatened the very survival of the last forest left in the Puglia region of Southern Italy. The Bosco d’Arneo, with centuries-old oaks was at risk of being logged to make space for nine new test tracks for electric vehicle testing.

Looking forward to meeting you at the opening of “Fixing Futures. Planetary futures between speculation and control” at Museum Giersch at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main on April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM.
The exhibition will be open to the public till August 31, 2025.
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Happy to be part of this endeavor!
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A few images from “Contours of the Coming World” I did in collaboration with Claudia Schioppa, who carried out the amazing 20 ink drawings.
Images from the show “Imagine Climate Dignity”, still open till 09.06.2025 in Künstlerhaus Wien.
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Today in Lecce, Italy

“Touch Nature” at Lentos Kunstmuseum has opened last week. The 9.5-meter-long ink drawing “Property Will Cost Us the Earth” is presented in combination with “Still Standing in the Wreckage”, cardboard placards that showed up in climate action in London in 2023.
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Severe headache from Trump inauguration and anticipation of an upcoming FPÖ-led government in Austria

Installation shot of my film “Anubumin” (2017) carried out in collaboration with Zanny Begg in the exhibition “Poetics of Power” at Kunsthaus Graz, curated by Andreja Hribernik and Nini Palavandishvili.
The show is still open till 25.05.2025
Photo: N. Lackner
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