Jäckie Rydz – The Body as Archive. Residency at Villa Decius 21.10.2025
Villa Decius is a place where art and reflection meet in dialogue. For years, it has hosted artists from around the world who create works that transcend language and form. One of this year’s screenwriting residents within the Forum of Cultures Dialogue programme is Jäckie Rydz (@rydzritz) – a Polish-German performance artist. In their work, Jäckie explores the relationships between body, memory, and space, using movement, text, and performance as tools of storytelling. The residency at Villa Decius offers them space and time to deepen their work on the new project LAVA.
For many years, Villa Decius has been a vibrant meeting place for artists and writers from all over the world — a space where ideas are born, texts take shape, and creativity becomes a language of dialogue. Within the Forum of Cultures Dialogue Screenwriting Residency Programme, we are delighted to host Jäckie Rydz (@rydzritz), a Polish-German performance artist.
Jäckie’s first original production, BABYLON, premiered at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw in 2023 and was later presented at several festivals across Germany. Their solo performance OLYMPIA premiered in June 2025 at Ballhaus Ost Berlin.
In their artistic practice, Jäckie creates body-based performances that challenge social rituals and renegotiate queer bodies in relation to space and language. During their residency at Villa Decius, Jäckie is working on a new text titled “LAVA”, a project that explores how trauma is inherited not only through stories and silences but also through land, institutions, and the body.
They approach writing as a physical act — with the body serving as both archive and instrument — enabling research on queer erasure and historical violence within the Polish-German context.
We are thrilled to accompany Jäckie’s creative process at Villa Decius and look forward to the outcomes of this remarkable artistic journey!
Jäckie’s first original production, BABYLON, premiered at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw in 2023 and was later presented at several festivals across Germany. Their solo performance OLYMPIA premiered in June 2025 at Ballhaus Ost Berlin.
In their artistic practice, Jäckie creates body-based performances that challenge social rituals and renegotiate queer bodies in relation to space and language. During their residency at Villa Decius, Jäckie is working on a new text titled “LAVA”, a project that explores how trauma is inherited not only through stories and silences but also through land, institutions, and the body.
They approach writing as a physical act — with the body serving as both archive and instrument — enabling research on queer erasure and historical violence within the Polish-German context.
We are thrilled to accompany Jäckie’s creative process at Villa Decius and look forward to the outcomes of this remarkable artistic journey!