Exhibition “Divny Sad” (“Wonderful Garden”) | Belarus, Poland
Creator: Anastasia Rydlevskaya
Exhibition opening dates:
August 21, 2025 | Thursday: 4 pm - 8 pm
August 22, 2025 | Friday: 5 pm - 9 pm
August 23, 2025 | Saturday: 3 pm - 9 pm
August 24, 2025 | Sunday: 10 am - 10 pm
August 25, 2025 | Monday: 5 pm - 10 pm
August 26, 2025 | Tuesday: 4 pm - 8 pm
August 27, 2025 | Wednesday: 6 pm - 9 pm
August 28, 2025 | Thursday: 6 pm - 9 pm
August 29, 2025 | Friday: 2 pm - 9 pm
August 30, 2025 | Saturday: 10 am - 9 pm
August 31, 2025 | Sunday: 10 am -7 pm
Place: Glass Hall & Foyer, Art Factory in Lodz, 3 Tymienieckiego Street
Admission: free
Age Restrictions: none
Content Warning: nudity appears in the art works
DESCRIPTION OF THE EXHIBITION
“Divny Sad” (“Wonderful Garden”) is a story about the process of becoming. It is a story of a body - not a female or male body, but simply a human body - that was once a source of fear, misunderstanding, separation. A body that gradually became a home. The art works show the journey: from the first attempts to touch one’s own corporeality, through confrontation with fear and discovering desires, up to full and tender rooting in oneself.
“Divny Sad” (“Wonderful Garden”) is a space where pain becomes the seed, and acceptance becomes the blossom. It is a journey through fragility, strength, sensitivity and freedom. In each art work you can find a fragment of the story of how a person becomes themselves - whole, alive and true.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST
Anastasia Rydlevskaya - born in 1995, Minsk, Belarus, she is a multidisciplinary artist and musician based in Gdańsk, Poland. Moving across visual arts, text, music, and performance, she creates intimate spaces where personal and collective mythologies weave into contemporary experiences. Deeply inspired by her pagan worldview, natural rhythms, and ancestral myths, Rydlevskaya explores the subtle transitions between inner and outer worlds, tracing the invisible threads that connect memory, identity, and the living presence of existence. Working with oil painting, drawing, textile, papier-mâché, natural materials such as dried flowers, voice, music, and the written word, she crafts poetic acts of metamorphosis - delicate, layered, and breathing with mythic undercurrents. Her practice unfolds as a quiet investigation of belonging, transformation, and dialogue with the world - reaching beyond binaries, beyond trauma, into a living, breathing conversation with life itself.
