Agnieszka MICHALCZYK, beachbody #12, 2022

acrylic, watercolor paper, 14 x 21,9cm, framed work

She graduated in painting and printmaking from Germany's renowned Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. While still a student, she came into contact with the art and culture of the Arab world, which did not go unnoticed in her artistic sensitivity in perceiving people and their problems. After receiving a degree in painting and graphic design, she studied Arabic studies at the University of Leipzig. Since 2012, she has been a lecturer at the design department of the German University in Cairo (GUC). She works mainly in painting, and is the author of street art projects and their implementation. She is interested in art in public space. She uses various media in her artistic work. At the center of the artist's interest are always people and their mutual relations. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Germany, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, among others, and has been discussed and published in Walls of Freedom, Street art of the Egyptian Revolution.