The exhibition Echo by Katarzyna Swinarska and Olga Yatsechko, 11-30 May, 2026

The exhibition Echo by Katarzyna Swinarska and Olga Yatsechko, presented at the Between.Pomiędzy Festival, explores the identity searches of both artists.

Olga Yatsechko builds her identity around the experience of emigration — the act of leaving behind familiar landscapes, colours, scents and the voices of loved ones, and the courageous decision to set out for another country in search of happiness and herself. Her work holds both tender memories of her homeland and sorrowful references to the endless, brutal war beyond our eastern border.

Katarzyna Swinarska consistently addresses the long-standing marginalisation of women in art history and the difficulty faced by female artists in constructing their own artistic identity — without the ability to look back on the work and lives of those who came before them. In her new series Famous Sisters, drawing on the Famous Women Dinner Service by the Bloomsbury Group (1932), Swinarska paints portraits of the celebrated sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, alongside many other talented sisters, women painters and poets — underscoring the importance of memory, image, reflection and echo, and above all of sisterhood as a principle of kinship and mutual support. Working in figurative painting, both artists construct a subjective, sensory world seen through the lens of female experience.

The exhibition is on display in the Library gallery on the ground floor. You are warmly invited.