Dimensions: 12 x 17.5 cm
Inscribed in pencil on the reverse: 'From left: | Pawelec, Kasia Maciejko, Fila, Ewa Partum, Ms. Galeria Mała | Jan Świdziński | 1980 | photo by Andrzej Brzeziński'
Biography
Creator of numerous installations and public art projects, performer, filmmaker, and photographer. She creates visual and conceptual poetry. She was one of the first in Poland to engage with conceptual art, e.g., the installation “Presence/Absence” (Sopot, 1965), “The Legality of Space” (Łódź, 1971), and “Breakfast on the Grass after E. Manet” (Biennale of Spatial Forms—Dreamers’ Gathering, Elbląg, 1971). Her work played a pioneering role in Poland in the fields of conceptual art, body art, feminist art, and critical art. In the 1970s, she ran her own gallery, “Adres,” in Łódź, which focused on conceptual art. She participated in numerous international exhibitions. Her best-known photographic series is “Self-Identification” from 1980. Ewa Partum’s works are included, among others, in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, TATE Modern in London, as well as in museum collections in Berlin, Łódź, the National Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Wrocław, and many others. Her works are part of the VERBUND Feminist Avant-Garde Collection in Vienna.
