Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, 2021.

Exhibition catalogue accompanying the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, examining the global oil age through art, cultural history, science, and technology. Bringing together around 250 artistic positions, the publication traces the pervasive role of petroleum in modern life and the ambivalent relations between fossil resources, industrialization, prosperity, environmental destruction, and cultural imagination. The publication includes Michael Hirschbichler’s contribution Theater of Combustion & Oil Field Paintings.

Edited by Andreas Beitin, Alexander Klose, and Benjamin Steininger.
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, 2021.
400 pages, German / English.