Paweł Szeibel
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Art
He creates paintings, workshops, social actions and installations in the urban space. His art reaches into areas reserved for botanists and gardeners. His work gives an important role to experiment and openness to the unexpected effects of work in progress. He studied at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in Spain in 2006-2007, and obtained his diploma with distinction at the Faculty of Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2008 before receiving the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts in 2016. He initiated the workshops carried out jointly with the WRO Art Gallery, Medialab Katowice, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice. He has received grants of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodship.