Between October 2025 and March 2026, FGV Arte will hold the exhibition Adiar o fim do mundo (Postponing the End of the World), curated by Paulo Herkenhoff and Ailton Krenak, at the offices of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. As part of the activities related to the exhibition, Prof. Carlos R. S. Milani was invited to coordinate the conference cycle Anthropocene and Climate Emergency: When Science and Art Meet, which brings together a number of national and international experts to discuss unavoidable issues related to the current climate crisis. With a multidisciplinary agenda involving various fields of knowledge, such as art, biology, economics, international relations, political science, philosophy, history, geology, physics, mathematics, etc., the cycle is an invitation to active listening and urgent dialogue on new forms of social coexistence.
On the 5th of November 2025, Wednesday, the OIMC Director will deliver the lecture Anthropocene and Capitalocene: how is humanity navigating the current polycrisis?, mediated by Blanche Marie Evin (FGV Arte). Held in Auditorium 1429 at the Foundation’s offices (Praia de Botafogo, 190 – Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro) between 5pm and 7pm, the lecture will present a recent overview of the scientific studies on climate change, correlating it with the decisions of national and international government agents.
Continuing with the series’ programme, on 26 November, Prof.José Maurício Domingues (IESP-UERJ), a research associate at the Observatory, will give a lecture entitled Modernity Meets the Anthropocene, moderated by Paula Baltar (FGV Social Responsibility). The event schedule started last Monday, 27 October, with the lecture Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Climate, given by François Gemenne (HEC Paris/Sciences Po). Moderated by Prof. Milani, the lecture addressed the theme of the exhibition, offering an analysis of the financing of ecological transition. FGV will soon announce the next conferences promoted by the initiative, as well as an intensive course on the themes addressed by the cycle, to be offered between 16 and 27 March 2026
Coinciding with the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), this exhibition combines art, ecology, and philosophy around a statement that is both a warning and an invitation: postponing the end of the world means reinventing the present. Inspired by the work and thinking of Ailton Krenak, an indigenous thinker, writer and environmental activist, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) and one of the most influential voices in contemporary counter-colonial thought, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works from different periods and cultural contexts, using techniques and media that address the urgencies of the environmental crisis, the legacy of colonialism, structural racism and the modes of resistance of indigenous peoples and traditional communities.
