About Us
Agnes Michalczyk
About
Agnes Michalczyk is a Polish-Austrian visual artist and educator living and working in Cairo. Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig where she studied painting and printmaking she teaches at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts at the German University in Cairo. Her work explores the urban space of Cairo through a female perspective focusing on the city and its narratives, real or imagined. She works in a variety of media, painting, drawing, and collage, between 2012-2016 mainly focusing on Street Art and since 2014 increasingly incorporating New Media in her practice contributing to different art projects in Cairo and abroad. Agnes is currently pursuing her doctoral research on immersive media and heritage in historic Cairo at Freie Universität Berlin and The University of Edinburgh.
Workshops
Arts in the City: Marks and Claims
This module explores imprints of the art(s) in shaping urban social-cultural landscapes. Participants will examine the power dynamics of the social and the political as they are narrated in realms and levels of the official, the subversive, the planned, the improvised, the individual, the collective, the imagined and the illusory. They will engage with the notion of public accessibility of art, while exploring charged pockets within the city that are not necessarily public or accessible. The module also investigates how artistic approaches and cultural interventions interpret placemaking policies and ambitions, as well as how they respond to city representation across various mediums and diverse cultural and contemporary curatorial practices.