Meeting with Ola Bylica, author of the comic “Woman and Her Butterflies” about Maria Sibylia Merian | ŚWIAT JAK HERBARIUM

TypeVisual Arts

LocationExhibition Hall

Hour

5.30 p.m.

Datum 26.11.2026

MEETING WITH A COMIC

Conducting:

Dorota Zaglewska

About the comic:

“Woman and Her Butterflies” is this year's comic debut by Ola Bylica,

winner of the Grand Prix of the 35th International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź

competition for album design. Despite this, the author shows great maturity

both in graphic style: unobtrusive, European, full of soft colors and

of elaborate compositions inspired by the structures explored by Maria

flowers and insects, as well as in the story itself—told both from the

historical view as well as carefully presented realities

social and moral values in which the heroine came to live. The one based on facts

biography in an inspiring way cites the fate of numerous talented women,

who were born in unfavorable times — and allows you to appreciate them

contribution to the development of culture, science and finally the impact on changing norms

social. [publisher's description]

Ola Bylica's book will be available for purchase after

meeting.

age: 10+

duration: 60'

about the exhibition

Artwork promoting an encounter with art as part of the exhibition “The World as a Herbarium. Nature in art from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. On a warm 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 corner is the inscription “meeting with the comic”. The composition refers to ancient herbaria and nature atlases.