Size: 49 x 69 cm (light frame)
Signed and dated p.d.: 'Ewa Partum 1987'
ed. 2/5 + 1 AP
Another piece in the collection: "Entangled in Gender" by Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski.
Exhibited
cf:
"Entangled in Gender. Exhibition of photographs from the collection of Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski", International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Lodz 11.05-28.06.2012
Ewa Partum, "Nothing can stop the idea of art", Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz, 21.11.2014-15.02.2015
Literature
cf:
Entangled in Gender. The Collection of Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski, ed. Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski, Poznań 2012, pp. 122-123, 221 (ill.)
Ewa Partum, ed. by Aneta Szyłak et al, Gdańsk 2012-2013, pp. 300-301 (il.).
Ewa Partum. Nothing can stop the idea of art, exhibition catalog, Museum of Art in Lodz, ed. Maria Morzuch, Lodz 2015, p. 162 (il.)
Dagmara Rode, On the possibility of self-realization. Ewa Partum; in: Unreconcilable Women. Reformers, rebels, revolutionaries, ed. Izabela Desperak, Inga Kuzma, Łódź 2015, p. 223
Aleksy Voitovich, How to Ruin Your Life with an Apple. "Take My Eyes" in loc_30, "Shum," 1.04.2022 (il.), online: https://magazynszum.pl/jak-zrujnowac-sobie-zycie-za-pomoca-jablka-take-my-eyes-w-lokalu_30/ (accessed 18.08.2025)
Karolina Majewska-Güde, Shadow of the East - Shadow of the West. Ewa Partum's artistic practice in the context of and in relation to feminist initiatives in Berlin Zachdonim, "Art and Documentation," no. 31, 2024, pp. 49 (il.), 47, 55 (mentioned)
Biography
Author of many installations and actions in public space, performer, filmmaker and photographer. Creates visual, conceptual poetry. She was one of the first in Poland to engage in conceptual art, e.g.: installation "Presence/Unpresence" (Sopot, 1965), "Legality of Space" (Lodz, 1971), "Breakfast on the Grass according to E. Manet" (Biennale of Spatial Forms Zjazd Marzycieli 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 "Address" in Lodz, dealing with conceptual art. She participated in many international exhibitions. Her best-known photographic series is "Self-identification" from 1980. Ewa Partum's works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art / MoMA / New York, TATE Modern in London, as well as in museum collections in Berlin, Lodz, the National Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Wroclaw and many others. Her works are part of the collection of the VERBUND Collection of the Feminist Avant-Garde in Vienna.
