Abstract
The exhibition The Most Beautiful Catastrophe (2018, curated by Jakub Gawkowski) was held at Kronika gallery in the Silesian town of Bytom between December 3 - 14, 2018, just a short tram ride from Katowice's International Congress Center where the UNFCCC's 24th Conference of the Parties took place. The exhibition, curated by Jakub Gawkowski, featured numerous works of Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian artists, and set out to "problematize the very concept of nature" and "rethink the future of the planet and the relationship between humans and the environment." It is this preoccupation with "the future," which will constitute the main thrust for the following essay through contextualizing some of the impacts which art may have in staking out a navigable modus operandi for the societies of the future.