Dimensions: 75 x 50 cm (dimensions of each work)
Signed and dated on each part p.d.: 'Ewa Partum 1984/97'.
The photographs are the first and only prints made in 1997 from slides documenting the 1984 performance. They were made for the retrospective exhibition of Ewa Partum, which was originally to take place at the "Zachęta" in Warsaw, but was eventually held in Karlsruhe in 2001. There are also two performance videos from 1984 - one piece is in the collection of the CCA Znaki Czasu in Toruń, the other is in the collection of the Wyspa Art Institute. There is also an object related to the performance - a skate on a mirrored sheet, which was shown at a retrospective exhibition in Lodz.
Exhibited
cf. "Pirouette," Dialog Gallery Berlin, 1984
"Ewa Partum 1965-2000," Badischer Kunsverein, Karlsruhe, 17.02-16.04.2001
Ewa Partum, "Nothing can stop the idea of art", Museum of Art in Lodz, Lodz, 21.11.2014-15.02.2015
"A madwoman in the attic", group exhibition, Ewa Opałka Gallery / Together Pamoja Foundation, Warsaw, 10.03-23.04.2023
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.
