Paulina Seyfried (she/her) describes herself as white, queer and disabled. From a crip-queer-perspective, she works as a researcher as well as a cultural producer and mediator in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects and as a companion for organisational development. In addition to various independent projects like Bedarfsgemeinschaft, Paulina Seyfried has worked for Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, for the Ceative Europe project Islands of Kinship, Festival Theaterformen and and un-label. She was head of management for insert female artist and head of the residency programme at Akademie der Künste der Welt.
2025 Paulina was mentee at Gropius Bau. Funded by the “pik – Programme for Inclusive Artistic Practice” of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
In 2021 she received the research and work grant for visual arts from the city of Cologne, from which her mapping Manege der Gegenwart (Arena of Contemporaneity) developed. In October 2025 she gave an interview about her research: Felix Müller, Senior Editor, Morgenpost „Auf einmal fühlen sich andere Personen angesprochen“
Paulina has been part of the Advisory Board of cultural office by the City of Cologne since 2022.