Shapes of Absence — Conversations on Grief and Transformation | WORLD LIKE HERBALIST

TypeVisual Arts

LocationExhibition Hall

Hour

4.30 p.m.

Datum 16.10.2026

MEETING ON GRIEF AND TRANSFORMATION

conducted by: Kuba Malenta, Filip Tarachowicz

Grief has no one shape, no time, no right way to experience it.

It can appear after the death of a loved one, but it can also accompany the loss

health, relationship, home, sense of security, important role, plans or

Imagined future. It can be visible and surrounded by concern, but it can also

remain unnoticed or unrecognized by the environment.

We invite adults to participate in one of two workshop cycles (16.10 and 6.11.) dedicated to the multidimensional experience of grief. The records are of the nature

open.

The starting point will be

paintings and artifacts presented at the exhibition. Motives of growth, passing,

fragility, dying, transforming and preserving traces will allow us

Look at the loss from different perspectives. The works will not be an illustration of the finished

answers, but by opening a conversation and an invitation to one's own associations.

The meetings will combine moderated conversation, elements of psychoeducation, work with

works of art and simple reflective actions. Workshops are both for

for those who want to better understand their own experience of grief, as well as for those

who want to accompany others more attentively or are interested in social and

The Cultural Dimension of Grief.

age:

16+

free admission, registration is valid at the following address: e.janczak@ckzamek.pl

about the exhibition

Artwork promoting workshops as part of the exhibition “The world as a herbarium. Nature in art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. On a dark brown background, there is a botanical illustration of yellow flowers, green leaves and the subsequent stages of development of a butterfly: a caterpillar, a pupa and two butterflies. In the upper left corner is the title of the exhibition, and in the lower left is the inscription “meeting on mourning and transformation”. The composition refers to ancient herbaria and natural illustrations.