Nikodem Szymura “(In)visible – Present”

The exhibition is a series of historical portraits of queer artists from Poland, presenting their work and contribution to culture.

opening: 21.11.2025 (Friday), 7.00 PM.
where: Galeria Labirynt, 5 J. Popiełuszki Street, Lublin
language: event in Polish; Polish sign language translation: Marta Stepniak; Ukrainian translation: Volodymyr Dyshlevuk
the exhibit is open until 14.12.2025 (Tue-Sun, 12.00 PM – 7.00 PM)

As Nikodem Szymura explains, it is a space designed to get to know yourself and your history, as well as to preserve and anchor it in today’s reality, which tries to deny us the possibility of finding ourselves among the mitigated, adjusted to current political tendencies portrayals of well-known characters, such as Maria Konopnicka, or quite the opposite, the forgotten ones, buried because of their queer identity, such as Piotr Odmieniec-Włast.

Many similar stories, beautiful and difficult lives, so reminiscent of ours, though taking place centuries ago, were lost or simplified to friendship, illness, rebellion…
Nikodem Szymura – writer and artist, passionate about self-development, constantly trying new things, and educating yourself and others. He draws inspiration from ecology, the experience of being transgender, and nature. He is a member of the artist-activist collective TransCendens.

Realised as a part of the Mayor of the city of Lublin’s scholarship.