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Monira al Qadiri,
Ana Alenso,
Yuri Ancarani,
Atelier van Lieshout,
Kader Attia,
Serge Attukwei Clottey,
Klaus Auderer,
Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck,
Lothar Baumgarten,
Jennifer-Jane Bayliss,
Wes Bell,
Uwe Belz,
Claus Bergen,
Bernardo Bertolucci,
Ursula Biemann,
Vanessa Billy,
Brett Bloom,
Mark Boulos,
Margaret Bourke-White,
Bureau d´Etudes,
Edward Burtynsky,
Sokari Douglas Camp,
Warren Cariou,
Christo,
Tony Cragg,
Walter De Maria,
Mark Dion,
Gerardo Dottori,
Rena Effendi,
William Eggleston,
Entang Wiharso,
Media Farzin,
Hans Fischerkoesen,
Sylvie Fleury,
John Gerrard,
Christoph Girardet,
Claus Goedicke,
Tue Greenfort,
Carl Grossberg,
Monika Grzymala,
Robert Gschwantner,
Hans Haacke,
Ernst Haeckel,
Eberhard Havekost,
Romuald Hazoume,
John Heartfield,
Armin Herrmann,
Michael Hirschbichler,
Bernhard Hopfengärtner,
Murad Ibragimbekov,
Aaditi Joshi,
Matt Kenyon,
Ernst Logar,
Mark Lombardi,
Ellen Karin Maehlum,
Remy Markowitsch,
Ralf Marschalleck,
Wolfgang Mattheuer,
Paul Michaelis,
Kay Michalak,
Richard Misrach,
Michael Najjar,
Hugo Niebeling,
Franz Nolde,
Kate Orff,
George Osodi,
Peter Keetman,
Alex Prager,
Qiu AnXiong,
Alain Resnais,
Oliver Ressler,
Martha Rosler,
Miguel Rothschild,
Ed Ruscha,
Shirin Sabahi,
Santiago Sierra,
Taryn Simon,
Andreas Slominski,
Robert Smithson,
Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger,
Thomas Struth,
Tetsumi Kudo,
The Center for Land Use Interpretation,
Wolfgang Tillmans,
Gunhild Vatn,
Sven Völker,
Wolf Vostell,
Erwin Wurm,
Yuts
press release
September 4, 2021–January 9, 2022
Oil - Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age
No other substance will have shaped societies in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as oil—countless materials and key technologies, cultural products, ways of life, knowledge, visions, values and emotions, as well as conflicts, injustices, and abysses of our time owe their existence to the energy density and transformability of the ambivalently shimmering “black gold.” Concerns about oil wells running dry are as old as the Petrol Age itself. It is, however, not the finite nature of the resource, but rather the fight against global warming and mountains of plastic waste that is now heralding the dusk of the “Petrol Age.” From a fictional future, the exhibition Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age (Septmber 4, 2021–January 9, 2022) takes a look back at the petromodernism that has lasted roughly 100 years: What is typical of this time, what is great and beautiful, what is ugly and terrible, and how is all this reflected in art and culture?