‘Greenery Swapject’ is working — join us and exchange or give away plants
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The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a year-long project, READY, STEADY, ART!, a series of art events throughout the city of Katowice aiming to creatively animate its inhabitants.
The scope of the project is two-dimensional and includes complementary actions: on the one hand, happenings, performances and events by guest artists, on the other — educational-motivational workshops.
The goal is to create situations that contrast reality, stimulating imagination and encouraging reflection our major concerns: identity, culture, ecology and more. Children, youth and the elderly will be involved in the educational-motivational part of the project. Workshop-like meetings with artists will show them various forms of artistic expression, and engage them in the design and realisation of the projects, thus developing their independent artistic direction.
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
I would like to realise an artistic action which could trigger positive social behaviour. My goal is to set up a space that will become a venue for swapping potted plants. The idea stemmed from observing amateur gardeners and their passion for growing various plants I would like to create some space in the city center, where local inhabitants could exchange or give away potted plants that they no longer want to keep. Greenery Swapject will be a venue for meetings and gardening experience exchange. The project will become a symbol of certain gardening ideas.
— Paweł Szeibel
In mid-June, in collaboration with the artist, a group of teenagers participating in the workshop are designing and building a Greenery Swapject. This project will stay in the city space for two months — the action takes place from 28 June until the end of August. You can bring in your plants and take another in exchange.
Paweł Szeibel was born in 1983 in Zabrze. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he worked towards his diploma under the supervision of Professor Jacek Rykała (Painting) and Professor Marian Oslisko (New Media). From 2006 to 2007 he attended the University of Castilla-La Mancha as a Socrates-Erasmus exchange student. He creates pictures, videos and urban space installations. In his art he reaches out to areas that are usually reserved for botanists or gardeners. Experiments play an important role in his art, and he enjoys seeing the unpredictable results of work in progress projects.
