Oil, Petroculture and the Transition out of the Oil Age

Oil constitutes one of the most important resources of the modern age in our global society. In light of increasing planetary warming, we are on the brink of a radical transformation into a post-fossil era. For a successful transition towards a sustainable future, understanding our present day culture in terms of its entanglements with the oil industry is a prerequisite. The exhibition Reflecting Oil, part of the eponymous artistic research project led by artist Ernst Logar, intensively explores this substance in connection with various concepts and phenomena of our petromodernity.

Moderation: Susanne Pöchacker