Future on Trial

Between Unruly Evidence and Unfinished Climate Justice

With contributions by: adO/Aptive, Beatrice Adeline Chua Tulagan, Eline Benjaminsen, Forensic Architecture, Paolo Cirio, Prin Rodriguez, Radha D’Souza and Jonas Staal, Valentino Skarwan

Engaging with climate justice reveals a complex field of perspectives across multiple temporalities, geographies, and forms of knowledge. In this context, environmental destruction is entangled with economic interests, the uneven distribution of risks and responsibilities, colonial continuities, imperialist power relations, and geological deep time.

The exhibition moves between two conceptions of justice. One that is produced and negotiated in courtrooms through scientific and legal evidence, data, and visual investigations, and another that understands justice as an unfinished, collective process, grounded in Indigenous knowledge, queer ecology, multispecies perspectives, and activism. Through a dialogue between artistic practices and scientific experts in the field of climate litigation, the exhibition opens up a space between evidence and uncertainty, accusation and repair, institutional accountability and collective imagination.

Curators: Adriano Vinca, Camille Belmin, Elisabeth Falkensteiner

Expert and scientific support: Inga Menke, Joy Reyes, Krishna Ariola, Michaela Krömer, Nicholas Petkov