Botanical Art Worldwide 2025
Poland
Plants of Royal Kitchen Garden
from The Wilanów Palace Florilegium project
about
The Museum of King Jan III’s Palace in Wilanów will host an exhibition of botanical illustrations created as part of the Wilanów Florilegium project, which gathers illustrations and histories of plants connected with Wilanów’s historic gardens. The contemporary depictions of the local flora will be created during this year’s masterclasses.
The Wilanów Florilegium - plants from the royal kitchen garden
The contemporary depictions of the local flora will be created during this year’s masterclasses. During the intensive art masterclass hosted by Izabela Wolska-Kuśmider, DipSBA(Dist), Member of The Society of Botanical Artists and American Society of Botanical Artists, https://www.greenart.pl/, the attendees will create works for the exhibition hosted as part of the international Botanical Art Worldwide 2025 celebrations. This spring, we are going to focus on the wealth of plants growing in a useful garden. The exhibition will focus on biodiversity and versatility of historic home gardens. During the masterclass, we will showcase the history of our reconstructed kitchen garden based on plants growing in the museum's historic garden. The participants will then carry out an in-depth study of the selected plants using a variety of artistic techniques (pencil, ink, silverpoint) and classic watercolour paint. Finally, they will choose a technque and create a work to be featured as part of the Wilanów Florilegium exhibition.
Above (Left to Right): sketchbook illustration by Izabela Wolska-Kusmider, study by Ewa Behrens-Nowakowska
artwork
Above (Left to Right): Aronia melanocarpa, Black Chokeberry by Izabela Wolska-Kuśmider, watercolor on paper; Artichoke by Izabela Wolska-Kuśmider
steering committee
Ewa Behrens-Nowakowska
Izabela Wolska-Kuśmider
organizer
Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów
more information about masterclasses: ebehrens@muzeum-wilanow.pl
EN https://wilanow-palac.pl/en/event/botanical-art-worldwide-2025-1
PL https://wilanow-palac.pl/wydarzenie/botanical-art-worldwide-2025
More about The Wilanów Palace Florilegium project:
PL https://wilanow-palac.pl/wspolczesna-ilustracja-botaniczna
venue
Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów
The Wilanów residence is the best preserved Baroque royal palace in Poland, including an extensive park with various garden facilities, the Morysin nature reserve, and a lake. The Museum safeguards the resources of both culture and nature, striving for sustainable development and preservation for future generations of this unique place.
The Baroque Palace with its surrounding historic gardens, Park and Nature Reserve is a place where history is present in thick and intertwined layers. Today, the Palace and the historic Wilanów gardens are open to everyone – to experience, see, explore and enjoy the richness of flora and fauna.
In 2024, we started a unique project at the intersection of botany and art - Wilanów Florilegium. In a comprehensive way, during walks, meetings in the open reading room and workshops on contemporary botanical illustration, we explored the cultural history of plants on the example of flora specimens from Wilanów gardens.
More about our Museum: https://wilanow-palac.pl/en/
Dates
May 18 - July 13, 2025