During this year’s The Night of Museums, join us for the exciting experience of the Sound Gallery. The NFM space will be filled with various concerts, mini-concerts, and installations located in unusual corners of the venue – including those not normally accessible to you.

The semantic discrepancy between the words “rhymes” and “rhythms” is not only a play on language but also key to understanding the relationships between individual works. “Rhymes” can be read metaphorically as connections of meaning – recurring images, themes, and associations that create a web of meaning. “Rhythms”, on the other hand, refer to how these returns happen over time: to pulsation, cyclicality, and the way in which given motifs reappear, transform, and arrange into a larger whole.

In this approach, the works “rhyme” with each other not through similarity of form, but through a shared experience and themes. Each artist takes up their own thread but does so in a way that resonates with the others. The constantly resurfacing "rhyme" is loneliness and sadness, everyday scenes related to life, the cyclical nature of days, gestures, and sounds. "Rhymes" construct a level of meaning—connecting compositions thematically and symbolically—while "rhythms" organize these meanings in time, giving them dynamics and continuity. Their divergence, therefore, proves to be illusory: it is precisely through this that we can grasp both the similarities between the compositions and their individual ways of developing common themes.