An exhibition titled “The Line of Transition” by Polish artist Małgorzata Dmitruk has opened at the Ivan Lutskievich Belarusian Museum in Vilnius. The show features a central multi-meter textile composition addressing events on the Belarusian-Polish border, alongside works such as the embroidered “Lullaby” and the lithograph series “Kombinat” dedicated to printer Dzmitry Malatkou. Dmitruk, a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, draws on her Podlasie heritage and family traditions, using found and inherited fabrics to explore themes of borders, transition, and memory.
The exhibition matters because it brings urgent humanitarian and cultural commentary into the gallery space, focusing on the crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border through the intimate lens of personal and regional history. Dmitruk’s distinctive style—blending academic training with naïve and childlike drawing—allows her to address tragic subjects with piercing sincerity. The show also highlights the role of the Ivan Lutskievich Belarusian Museum in Vilnius as a venue for Belarusian and borderland cultural expression, and it underscores the continued relevance of textile art as a medium for political and emotional storytelling.