Ewa Partum
1945 born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw/Poland.
Lives and works in Berlin/Germany and Poland.
Ewa Partum (*1945) belongs to the first generation of Polish conceptual artists and is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual and feminist art in Europe. In the mid-1960s, she positioned herself with a "critical attitude towards reality, the system, and control" and initially appeared with groundbreaking actions and installations in public space, visual poetry, films, and photographs and performances. Her early work reflects the reality of a country torn between socialist, communist and liberal dynamics.
Partum is one of the most important representatives of conceptual and feminist art in Poland, presentations of her works among others in Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou as well as her participations in international exhibitions among others 14th Biennale de Lyon, La Triennale 2012 Paris, 18th Biennale of Sydney as well as Manifesta 7 among others. Her works are in numerous international collections such as Tate Modern, MoMA New York, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Generali Foundation, National Gallery Berlin.
EDUCATION
1963-65 State Higher School of Fine Arts, Lodź/Poland
according to the program of Władysław Strzemiński
1965-70 Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw/Poland
1970 Degree: Master of Arts (Masterthesis: New Sources for Intellectual Affect)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
1993 Scholarship from the Berlin Senate/Germany
1987 Scholarship from the Berlin Senate/ Germany
1984 Award; Competition „Overcoming the Wall by Painting Over the Wall“
tendered by the House at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin/Germany (Second Prize)
1973 Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture/Poland
1971 Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture/Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 Ewa Partum – poem by ewa – Hunt Kastner, Prague/Chech Republic
Ewa Partum - My Gallery is an Idea, Galeria Adres Archive, Galeria Studio Warsaw/Poland
2015 Selbstidentifikation I self-identification, Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin/Germany
Ewa Partum - Partytury, Galeria Aleksander Bruno, Warsaw/Poland
2014 Nic nie zatrzymaidei sztuki, m2, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodź/Poland
Installations & Provocations Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick/Irland
The idea of presence I selected works, Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin/Germany
2009 Conceptual Museum, Galerie Manhattan, Lodź/Poland
Polityka przemija, Sztuka pozostaje, Foto Medium-Art-Gallery, Kraków/Poland
2006 Selbstidentification/Self-identification, Retrospective, National Museum, Warsaw/Poland
The Legality of Space, Retrospective, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk/Poland
2005 Non-Exhibition, Galerie BWA, Wrocław/Poland
2002 Poem by Ewa, Galerie Foth, Freiburg/Germany
2001 Gedankenakt ist ein Kunstakt, Retrospektive 1965 – 2000, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe/Germany
2000 Art Diary, Politik ist vergänglich- die Kunst bleibt, Galerie Vostell, Berlin/Germany
1997 Aussage Pur- Goethe in Goethe, Goethe Restaurant, Fasanenstrasse, Berlin/Germany
1993 Aktionen/Installationen/Objekte, 1982-1993, Polnisches Kulturinstitut Berlin/Germany
1988 Vom Subjekt zum Kunstobjekt, Galerie Gudrun Schulz Berlin/Germany
1983 Ewa Partum. Works 1970-1980, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1981 Selfidentification, Galerie Inge Baecker, Bad Münstereifel/Germany
1980 Selbstidentifikation, Mala Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw/Poland
1977 Ewa Partum. Poems, Films, Objects, BWA Labirynt, Lublin/Poland
1976 Galeria Awangarda, Wrocław/Poland
1975 Ewa Partum. Poems, Films, Objects, Galerie Repassage, Warsaw/Poland
1973 Made by Me, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
Tautologisches Kino, Film by Ewa, Galerie Adres, Lodź/Poland
1972 Metapoesie, Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodź/Poland
Eifelturm- Gegenwart der Höhe, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
Das Feld des künstlerischen Happenings, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
Anwesenheit, Galeria Adres, Lodź/Poland
Raum mit poetischer Lizenz, Biuro Poezij, Warsaw/Poland
Legalität des Raumes, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Lodź/Poland
1970 Raum mit Vorstellungsvermögen eingerichtet, Zeitgenössische Galerie, Warsaw/Poland
1970 Neue Quellen der Intellektuellen Ergriffenheit, Akademie der Künste (Diplomarbeit) Warsaw/Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 MoMA, Permanent Collection new MoMa, Floor 4, 415, The David Geffen Galleries
The Act of Thinking is an Act of Art – Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg/Germany
Stories of Old Age – Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
States of Focus – Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW), Wroclaw/Poland
2018 Left Performance Histories – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin/Germany
Where does your heart belong? – Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen/Germany
Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit/Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil - Spike, Berlin/Germany
Hommage - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
WOMAN The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection-Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger/Norwegen
Power of Language - Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg/Austria
Meda muckt auf. Radikal Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang Kunsthalle im Lipisiusbau, Dresden/Germany
Feminist Avant-garde of the 1970s – The Brno House of Arts, Brno/Chech Republic
2017 Off-Biennale- Gaudiopolis 2017, OFF- Biennale, Budapest/Hungary
14th La Biennale de Lyon, La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon/France
Feminist Avant-Garde der 1970er Jahre – ZKM, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe/Germany
Aging Pride/Die Kraft des Alters, Belvedere, Vienna/Austria
Tomislav Gotovac, Neša Paripović, Ewa Partum, City Theater, Kisterem, Budapest/Hungary
Polenbegeisterungswelle, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Berlin/Germany
If You don´t know me by now, you will never never know me – Arton Foundation, Warsaw/Poland
Everything we see could also be otherwise (My sweet little lamb) The Showroom, London/United Kingdom
Self-identification, Instytut Fotografii Fort, Warsaw/Poland
7th Contexts Festival of Ephemeral Art – Sokołowsko2017 – Context Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko/ Poland
20 Jahre Schauraum, Schauraum K3, Simbach am Inn/Germany
Kuss. Von Rodin bis Bob Dylan, Bröhan-Museum – Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco, und Funktionalismus, Berlin/Germany
Woman. Feminist Avant-Garde der 1970er Jahre aus der Sammlung Verbund, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Wien/Österreeich
2016 Att ge tomheten mening…Växjö konsthall, Växjö/Sweden
Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s – The Photography Gallery, London
Illegibility. Palimpsests/Nieczytelność, Palimpsesty, Muzeum Pana Tadeusza, Wrocław/Poland
The Exhibition of Contemporary Polish Art „Nothing Special, It´s Just Art...” Y Gallery, Minsk
The Procedure of 1970s Art – Profile Foundation, Warsaw
Poesie der Veränderung – Museum der Moderne, Salzburg/Austria
Signs Trapped by Liars, Language in Art, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz/Austria
Love Performance, Galeria Labirynt, BWA Lublin, Lublin/Poland
Piere De Toucher, Der Tastsinn in der Kunst, Museum Tinguely, Basel/Switzerland
2015 Shifters: Signelements en Amerique latine et en Europe de LÉst, Paris/France
Mein Körper ist das Ereignis – Wiener Aktionismus und internationale Performance,
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MOMOK, Wien/Austria
Feministische Avantgarde der 70er Jahre – Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/Deutschland
Art has no Alternative – tranzit.sk, Bratislava/Slovakia
(Nie) dotykaj, Haptyczne aspekty sztuki polskiej po 1945 roku, Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu – CoCA, Toruń/Polen
State of Life. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance – National Art Museum of China, NAMOC, Peking/China
Speaking Parts – Raven Raw, London/UK
Entropy of Art: A Catalogue – Galerie Entropia Wrocław/Poland
Gorgona Then and Now & Artist on Vacation 2015 – MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb/Croatia
2014 The Avant-Garde Did Not Applaud. Romuald Kutera/Recent Art Gallery – Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wrocław/Poland
Le Mouvement – Performing the City: The City Performed, Kunsthaus Centre PasqueArt – Centre dART, Biel/Bienne/Switzerland
Atlas of Modernity. The 20th and 21st Century Art Collection, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodź/Poland
Personal (Hi-)stories – Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow/Russia
Woman. The Feminist Avantgarde of the 1970s – Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna – BOZAR –
Palais des Beau-Arts /Plaies voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels/Belgium
Dlugosc cugli wyznacza srednice areny – Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole
The Sky is Blue in some other way: A Diagram of Possible Misreading – Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid/Spain
NIEZGODNIE Z INSTRUKCJĄ, Galerie zeitgenössischer Kunst, Opole/Poland
2013 Tate Modern, Energy and Process, Collection Displays (Jahresinstallation)
Correspondences. Modern Art and Universalism, Kunstmuseum Bern/Switzerland
Bad Girls. A collection in action, FRAC Lorraine, Metz /France
In the Heart of the Country, Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/Poland
It isn’t important, it’s only Art, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
Amazing clever! Linguistic! – An Adventure in Conceptual Art, Generali Foundation Vienna/Austria
Till Tomorrow! Ideologies of the city planning and the tactics of dwelling, Alternativa, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk/Poland
re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Germany
2012 The Freedom of Sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest/Hungary
18th Biennale of Sydney/Australia
re.act. feminism #2 – A Performing Archive, Fundación Antoni Tápies, Barcelona/Spain
it isn’t important, it’s only art... Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
Artificial Fullmoon – Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw/Poland
18th Biennale of Sydney 2012 – Biennale of Sydney, Sydney/Australia
re.act. feminism #2 – A Performing Archive – Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum for Contemporary Art, Roiskilde/Denmark
La Triennale 2012 – Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris/France
Formes brèves, autres, 25 – 49 NORD 6 EST, Frac Lorraine, Metz/France
For You – ms, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodź/Poland
Corespondences, Modern Art and Universalism, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodź/Poland
re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb/Croatia
Uwiklane w Plec, Ausstellung der Sammlung Joanna und Krzysztof Madelski, BWA Galeria Sztuki, Olsztyn/Poland
Tate Modern, A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance/London/UK
2011 Particolare. Sztuka, która wznieca niepokoi, Palazzo Dona, Signum Foundation, Venice/Italy
Thymos. The Art of Anger 1900-2011 – CoCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun/Poland
Carpet Cleaning, ms2, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodź/Poland
re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive, Montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz/Spain
Konzeptuelle Fotografie, Freies Museum Berlin/Germany
2010 Le Promesses du passè, Centre Pompidou, Paris/France
Conceptos, Selection de Fondos del Museo Vostell Malpartida/ Museo Vostell Malpartida de Càceres/Spain
Gender Check, Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Zacheta Galerie,Warsaw/Poland
2nd Biennale Ars Polonia- In Space – Ars Polonia Biennial, Opole/Poland
2009 Gender Check. Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, MUMOK, Vienna/Austria
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? - Kunsthalle Wien/Museumsquartier Vienna/Austria
Performing the East, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg/Austria
Agents and Provocateurs, Institute of Contemporary art, Dunaujvaros/Hungary
REBELLE. Kunst & Feminisme 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnheim/the Netherlands
re.act.feminism & ExterraXX, Kunsthaus Erfurt/ Germany
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Germany
Wir Berliner/ My Berlinczycy, Märkisches Museum, Berlin/Germany
FALLMAUERFALL 61 – 89 – 09, Stadtmuseum Berlin/Germany
Three Women, Zacheta Galerie Warsaw/Poland
2008 UN COUP DE DÈS, Generali Foundation, Vienna/Austria
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Germany
WACK!Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery/Canada
Translate: The Impossible Collection, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk/ Poland
Manifesta7, Trentino/Rovereto, Manifesta 2008/Italy
Team404 & John Armleder: Clinch/Cross/Cut, NEW JERSEYY Basel/Switzerland
SUNSET – I LOVE THE HORIZON, Le Magasin, Grenoble/France
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution PS.1 MoMA, New York /USA
Points of Reference – The Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art, Warsaw/Poland
I love the Horizon – MAGAZIN- Centre National d´art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble/France
Teraz Artysci galerii Foto Art Medium Art Gallery, Masovian Centre of Contemporary/Poland
2007 WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Woman in the Arts, Washington/USA
1,2,3...Avant-Gardes, sala Rekalde, Bilbao/Spain
GENDER BATTLE, Centro Galego de arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela/Spanien
Antyfotografia, BWA Arsenal, Poznań /Poland
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/USA
FOR A SPECIAL PLACE, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York/USA
2006 1,2,3,...Avant-Gardes, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw/Poland
Word-Sculpture, Tate Modern/UK
Mit Macht zur Wahl, Frauenmuseum Bonn/Germany
GEGENSTÄNDE/HANDLUNGSFORMEN, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe/Germany
Every Day...Kunstverein Salzburg/Austria
Primera generacion, Arte e imagon en movimiento, 1963-1986, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spain
SUCEDIO, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
2005 Warszawa - Moskwa. Moskwa - Warszawa 1900-2000, Galeria Trietiakowska, Moscow/Russia
Malewicz w Polsce, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok/Poland
Bocca della verita, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth/Germany
Collected Views from East or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna/Austria
Potencjał, Budynek Metropolitan, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw/Polen
2004 Collected Views from East or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna/Austria
Bocca della Verita, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e:v. Bodenburg/Germany
Double Bind- Kunst-Kinder-Karriere, Paula Modersohn Becker Museum, Bremen/Germany
Documenta Dokumenta - Documenta Sztuki. Festiwal Fort Sztuki, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków//Poland
2003 doublebind- Kunst-Kinder-Karriere, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin /Germany
Samizdat, European Parliament, Brussels/Belgium
Yellow Pages – Turmgalerie 333, Helmstedt/Germany
2002 Europaweit. Kunst der 60er Jahre, Staedtische Galerie, Karlsruhe/Germany
Europaweit. Kunst der 60er Jahre, Staatlische Galerie Moritzburg, Halle/Germany
Eva und die Schlange, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth/Germany
Autonomiczny Ruch Konceptualny w Polsce, Galeria BWA, Lublin/Poland
Semiotic Landscape, Charim Galerie, Vienna/Austria
Pejzaż semiotyczny, Królikarnia, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw/Poland
Samizdat, Narodni Muzeum, Praha/ehem. Czech Republic
2000 Samizdat, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin/Germany
1997 Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
1996 20 Jahre Galerie Wewerka, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin/Germany
1992 Miteinander, Polnisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin/Germany
Lyon, Lodź, Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, 1931-1992, Musée d'art contemporain Lyon, Lyon/France
1991 Jesteśmy, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw/Poland
Polish Photography, Navigator Foundation, Boston/USA
Bakunin in Dresden, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw/Poland
1990 Bakunin in Dresden. Polnische Kunst heute, Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf/Germany
Bakunin in Dresden. Polnische Kunst heute, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg/Germany
Noire et Blanche Pologne, Galerie Picto Bastille, Paris/France
Verein der Beliner Kuenstlerinnen e.V., Rathaus Schoeneberg, Berlin/Germany
1989 Der Kongres, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin/Germany
1988 Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax/UK
Accrochage, Galerie Gudrun Schulz, Berlin/Germany
1986 Polska 86. Exhibition of 20th Century Polish Photography, City of Boston, Navigator Foundation, Boston/USA
1985 Kunstmesse, Frauenmuseum Bonn/Germany
Überwindung der Mauer, Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin/Germany
Friedens Biennale, Hamburg/Germany
Photographies Polonaises du XXieme Siecle, Digne/France
1984 Zeitgenössische Polnische Kunst, Galerie Dialog, Berlin/Germany
1983 Neuerwerbungen der Arthotek, NBK- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,Berlin/Germany
Art Library, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping/Sweden
Photography in Poland, Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco/USA
Kunst konzentriert, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1982 Quatro (by Sol Le Witt), Milano/Italy
1980 Ohne Kunst kein Fortschritt - ohne Fortschritt keine Kunst, Fulda/Germany
1979 Appolinaire Gallery, Milano/Italy
1978 Międzynarodowe Triennale Rysunku, Wrocław/Polen
Festiwal Sztuk Pięknych ZPAP, Warsaw/Polen
1977 Anti-Dokumenta, Kassel/Germany
Film as Film - Film as Art, Galeria Adres, Łódź/Polen
Kunst als kommunikative, Amsterdam/Niederlande
1976 Small Press - Festival '76, Kontakt Gallery, Antwerp/Belgium
1975 Last International Exhibition of Mail Art '75, Arte Nuevo Gallery, Buenos Aires/Argentinien
Vargen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Sweden
Spatial Poem, Osaka/Japan
1974 Prospectiva 74, Sao Paulo/Brasilia
Wolf, Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Sweden
Banana. Mail Art, Schwarz Gallery, Milan/Italy
Festival de la Postal Creatíva / Creative Postcard Festival, Gallery U, Montevideo
1973 Omaha Flow Systems (by Ken Friedman), Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska/USA
W.O.R.K.S., Conceptual Graphics "Reading of Our World", Calgary/Kanada
Fluxus West, San Diego/USA
Correspondance d'art de Pologne (by Ben Vautier), La Fenetre, Nice/France
An International Cyclopedia of Plans and Occurrences, Anderson Gallery, DK
Richmond, Virginia/USA Biennale der räumlichen Form – Kinolabor, Galeria El, Elbląg/Poland
1971 Biennale der räumlichen Form, Zjazd Marzycieli, Galeria El, Elblag/Poland
ACTIONS, PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE
2017 Polenbegeisterungswelle, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Berlin/Germany
2016 NIECZYTELNOSC, Palimpsesty, Muzeum Pana Tadeusza Wrocław/Poland
2015 Speaking Parts – Raven Raw, London/UK
2012 Metapoetry, 18th Biennale of Sydney/Australia
2006 Perlen (Perlas), Museo Malpartida Vostell, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
2006 Active Poetry,-Text-Installation nach dem Text von James Joyce „Ulysses“,,
Tate Modern, Turbinenhalle, London/UK
2006 Text-Installation im öffentlichem Raum mit einem Text von Adam Mickiewicz,Nationalmuseum Warsaw/Polen
2006 Ästhetik, Nationalmuseum Warsaw/Polen
2005 Kuratorinnen- zwischen der Institutionalisierung und dem Privaten, Zielona Góra/Poland
1993 Ästhetik, Polnisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin/Germany
1993 Gedankenakt ist ein Kunstakt, Kunst Service/ Christiane Müller Galerie Berlin/Germany
1992 Flamenco in Weiss, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
1992 Ästhetik, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spanien
1992 Polnische Künstlerinnen bekommen ihre Chance erst als Leiche,
Aktion in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Berlin/Germany
1991 Ästhetik, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn/Germany
1990 Konzert der Haare, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf/Germany
1990 Ästhetik, Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg/Germany
1989 Gedankenakt ist ein Kunstakt, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin/Germany
1987 Text Installation im öffentlichen Raum. Olivaer Platz, Berlin/Germany
1985 Private Performance- Standesamt, Berlin/Germany
1984 Pirouette, Galerie Dialog, Berlin/Germany
1984 Installation am Spandauer Schiffskanal, Berlin/Germany
1983 Hommage a Solidarnosc, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1983 Stupid Woman 5, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1983 Konzert der Haare, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1982 Hommage a Solidarnosc/Installation, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1982 Hommage a Solidarnosc, Czyszczenie Dywanow, Lodź/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 4, Galeria Dziekanka, Warsaw/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 3, Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Cracow/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 2, BWA, Cracow/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 1, Miastko/Świerzów/Poland
1981 Hochzeitskleidung, BWA, Labirynt Galerie, Lublin/Poland
1980 Frauen- Die Hochzeit ist gegen euch, ON Galerie, Poznań/Polen
1980 Selbstidentifikation, Mala Galerie, ZPFAF, Warsaw/Polen
1979 Change- Mein Problem ist das Problem einer Frau, Art Forum Galerie,Lodź/Poland
1974 Change- Performance, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
1971 Legalität des Raumes, BWA Galerie, Lodź/Poland
1971 Frühstück im Freien nach E.Manet, Elbląg /Poland
1971 Aktive Poesie, Warsaw/Poland
1965 Anwesenheit/Abwesenheit, Sopot/Poland
FILMSCREENINGS/LECTURES
2013 Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Gorzów Wielkopolski/ Poland
2011 Royal College of Art, London/UK
2010 Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw/Poland
2009 Fragmentos del Este, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
2009 Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spanien
2006 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Videoforum Berlin
2006 Galeria Barbara Wien, Berlin
2006 Tate Modern, Word Sculpture/London/UK
2003 KINO LAB, Zamek Ujazdowski (CSW) Warsaw/Polen
2003 Oslo Open/Schweden
2003 CSW Laznia, Danzig/Polen
2003 Atelier Nord, Oslo/Schweden
2003 The Kitchen, New York/USA
COLLECTIONS (selection)
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York/USA
Tate Modern, London/UK
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spain
Sammlung Verbund, Wien/Austria
Generali Foundation, Wien/Austria
49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz/France
Navigator Foundation, Boston, Mass. Boston/USA
The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group and Erste Foundation, Vienna/Austria
Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
Performing Archive – Re.Act. Feminism, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin/Germany
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin/Germany
Frauenmuseum Bonn, Bonn/Germany
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin/Germany
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin/Germany
Arsenal Gallery, Białystok/Poland
Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk/Poland
Instytut Sztuki PAN, Warsaw/Poland
Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesnej MWW, Wrocław/Poland
Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocław/Poland
Galeria Studio, Warsaw/Poland
ms- Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodź/Poland
Zachęta Sztuki Współczesnej, Szczecin/Poland
Fundacja Signum, Poznań/Venice/Poland/Italy
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/Poland
The National Museum in Warsaw/Poland
Sammlung Czyszczenie Dywanow, Lodź/Poland
Galeria Raster, Warsaw/Poland
Museum Susch, Susch/Schwitzerland
Art Tank Collection, Warsaw/Poland
Fundacja Sztuki Współczesnej in situ, Sokołowsko/Poland
Lives and works in Berlin/Germany and Poland.
Ewa Partum (*1945) belongs to the first generation of Polish conceptual artists and is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual and feminist art in Europe. In the mid-1960s, she positioned herself with a "critical attitude towards reality, the system, and control" and initially appeared with groundbreaking actions and installations in public space, visual poetry, films, and photographs and performances. Her early work reflects the reality of a country torn between socialist, communist and liberal dynamics.
Partum is one of the most important representatives of conceptual and feminist art in Poland, presentations of her works among others in Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou as well as her participations in international exhibitions among others 14th Biennale de Lyon, La Triennale 2012 Paris, 18th Biennale of Sydney as well as Manifesta 7 among others. Her works are in numerous international collections such as Tate Modern, MoMA New York, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, Generali Foundation, National Gallery Berlin.
EDUCATION
1963-65 State Higher School of Fine Arts, Lodź/Poland
according to the program of Władysław Strzemiński
1965-70 Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw/Poland
1970 Degree: Master of Arts (Masterthesis: New Sources for Intellectual Affect)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
1993 Scholarship from the Berlin Senate/Germany
1987 Scholarship from the Berlin Senate/ Germany
1984 Award; Competition „Overcoming the Wall by Painting Over the Wall“
tendered by the House at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin/Germany (Second Prize)
1973 Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture/Poland
1971 Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture/Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 Ewa Partum – poem by ewa – Hunt Kastner, Prague/Chech Republic
Ewa Partum - My Gallery is an Idea, Galeria Adres Archive, Galeria Studio Warsaw/Poland
2015 Selbstidentifikation I self-identification, Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin/Germany
Ewa Partum - Partytury, Galeria Aleksander Bruno, Warsaw/Poland
2014 Nic nie zatrzymaidei sztuki, m2, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodź/Poland
Installations & Provocations Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick/Irland
The idea of presence I selected works, Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin/Germany
2009 Conceptual Museum, Galerie Manhattan, Lodź/Poland
Polityka przemija, Sztuka pozostaje, Foto Medium-Art-Gallery, Kraków/Poland
2006 Selbstidentification/Self-identification, Retrospective, National Museum, Warsaw/Poland
The Legality of Space, Retrospective, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk/Poland
2005 Non-Exhibition, Galerie BWA, Wrocław/Poland
2002 Poem by Ewa, Galerie Foth, Freiburg/Germany
2001 Gedankenakt ist ein Kunstakt, Retrospektive 1965 – 2000, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe/Germany
2000 Art Diary, Politik ist vergänglich- die Kunst bleibt, Galerie Vostell, Berlin/Germany
1997 Aussage Pur- Goethe in Goethe, Goethe Restaurant, Fasanenstrasse, Berlin/Germany
1993 Aktionen/Installationen/Objekte, 1982-1993, Polnisches Kulturinstitut Berlin/Germany
1988 Vom Subjekt zum Kunstobjekt, Galerie Gudrun Schulz Berlin/Germany
1983 Ewa Partum. Works 1970-1980, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1981 Selfidentification, Galerie Inge Baecker, Bad Münstereifel/Germany
1980 Selbstidentifikation, Mala Galeria ZPAF, Warsaw/Poland
1977 Ewa Partum. Poems, Films, Objects, BWA Labirynt, Lublin/Poland
1976 Galeria Awangarda, Wrocław/Poland
1975 Ewa Partum. Poems, Films, Objects, Galerie Repassage, Warsaw/Poland
1973 Made by Me, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
Tautologisches Kino, Film by Ewa, Galerie Adres, Lodź/Poland
1972 Metapoesie, Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodź/Poland
Eifelturm- Gegenwart der Höhe, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
Das Feld des künstlerischen Happenings, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
Anwesenheit, Galeria Adres, Lodź/Poland
Raum mit poetischer Lizenz, Biuro Poezij, Warsaw/Poland
Legalität des Raumes, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Lodź/Poland
1970 Raum mit Vorstellungsvermögen eingerichtet, Zeitgenössische Galerie, Warsaw/Poland
1970 Neue Quellen der Intellektuellen Ergriffenheit, Akademie der Künste (Diplomarbeit) Warsaw/Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 MoMA, Permanent Collection new MoMa, Floor 4, 415, The David Geffen Galleries
The Act of Thinking is an Act of Art – Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg/Germany
Stories of Old Age – Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
States of Focus – Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW), Wroclaw/Poland
2018 Left Performance Histories – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin/Germany
Where does your heart belong? – Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen/Germany
Unklarheit ist die neue Gewissheit/Unentschiedenheit das neue Urteil - Spike, Berlin/Germany
Hommage - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
WOMAN The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection-Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger/Norwegen
Power of Language - Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg/Austria
Meda muckt auf. Radikal Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang Kunsthalle im Lipisiusbau, Dresden/Germany
Feminist Avant-garde of the 1970s – The Brno House of Arts, Brno/Chech Republic
2017 Off-Biennale- Gaudiopolis 2017, OFF- Biennale, Budapest/Hungary
14th La Biennale de Lyon, La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon/France
Feminist Avant-Garde der 1970er Jahre – ZKM, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe/Germany
Aging Pride/Die Kraft des Alters, Belvedere, Vienna/Austria
Tomislav Gotovac, Neša Paripović, Ewa Partum, City Theater, Kisterem, Budapest/Hungary
Polenbegeisterungswelle, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Berlin/Germany
If You don´t know me by now, you will never never know me – Arton Foundation, Warsaw/Poland
Everything we see could also be otherwise (My sweet little lamb) The Showroom, London/United Kingdom
Self-identification, Instytut Fotografii Fort, Warsaw/Poland
7th Contexts Festival of Ephemeral Art – Sokołowsko2017 – Context Festival of Ephemeral Art, Sokołowsko/ Poland
20 Jahre Schauraum, Schauraum K3, Simbach am Inn/Germany
Kuss. Von Rodin bis Bob Dylan, Bröhan-Museum – Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco, und Funktionalismus, Berlin/Germany
Woman. Feminist Avant-Garde der 1970er Jahre aus der Sammlung Verbund, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Wien/Österreeich
2016 Att ge tomheten mening…Växjö konsthall, Växjö/Sweden
Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s – The Photography Gallery, London
Illegibility. Palimpsests/Nieczytelność, Palimpsesty, Muzeum Pana Tadeusza, Wrocław/Poland
The Exhibition of Contemporary Polish Art „Nothing Special, It´s Just Art...” Y Gallery, Minsk
The Procedure of 1970s Art – Profile Foundation, Warsaw
Poesie der Veränderung – Museum der Moderne, Salzburg/Austria
Signs Trapped by Liars, Language in Art, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz/Austria
Love Performance, Galeria Labirynt, BWA Lublin, Lublin/Poland
Piere De Toucher, Der Tastsinn in der Kunst, Museum Tinguely, Basel/Switzerland
2015 Shifters: Signelements en Amerique latine et en Europe de LÉst, Paris/France
Mein Körper ist das Ereignis – Wiener Aktionismus und internationale Performance,
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MOMOK, Wien/Austria
Feministische Avantgarde der 70er Jahre – Werke aus der Sammlung Verbund Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/Deutschland
Art has no Alternative – tranzit.sk, Bratislava/Slovakia
(Nie) dotykaj, Haptyczne aspekty sztuki polskiej po 1945 roku, Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu – CoCA, Toruń/Polen
State of Life. Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance – National Art Museum of China, NAMOC, Peking/China
Speaking Parts – Raven Raw, London/UK
Entropy of Art: A Catalogue – Galerie Entropia Wrocław/Poland
Gorgona Then and Now & Artist on Vacation 2015 – MSU, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb/Croatia
2014 The Avant-Garde Did Not Applaud. Romuald Kutera/Recent Art Gallery – Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wrocław/Poland
Le Mouvement – Performing the City: The City Performed, Kunsthaus Centre PasqueArt – Centre dART, Biel/Bienne/Switzerland
Atlas of Modernity. The 20th and 21st Century Art Collection, Muzeum Sztuki in Lodź/Poland
Personal (Hi-)stories – Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow/Russia
Woman. The Feminist Avantgarde of the 1970s – Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna – BOZAR –
Palais des Beau-Arts /Plaies voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels/Belgium
Dlugosc cugli wyznacza srednice areny – Opole Contemporary Art Gallery, Opole
The Sky is Blue in some other way: A Diagram of Possible Misreading – Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid/Spain
NIEZGODNIE Z INSTRUKCJĄ, Galerie zeitgenössischer Kunst, Opole/Poland
2013 Tate Modern, Energy and Process, Collection Displays (Jahresinstallation)
Correspondences. Modern Art and Universalism, Kunstmuseum Bern/Switzerland
Bad Girls. A collection in action, FRAC Lorraine, Metz /France
In the Heart of the Country, Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/Poland
It isn’t important, it’s only Art, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
Amazing clever! Linguistic! – An Adventure in Conceptual Art, Generali Foundation Vienna/Austria
Till Tomorrow! Ideologies of the city planning and the tactics of dwelling, Alternativa, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk/Poland
re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Germany
2012 The Freedom of Sound. John Cage behind the Iron Curtain, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest/Hungary
18th Biennale of Sydney/Australia
re.act. feminism #2 – A Performing Archive, Fundación Antoni Tápies, Barcelona/Spain
it isn’t important, it’s only art... Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/Poland
Artificial Fullmoon – Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw/Poland
18th Biennale of Sydney 2012 – Biennale of Sydney, Sydney/Australia
re.act. feminism #2 – A Performing Archive – Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum for Contemporary Art, Roiskilde/Denmark
La Triennale 2012 – Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris/France
Formes brèves, autres, 25 – 49 NORD 6 EST, Frac Lorraine, Metz/France
For You – ms, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodź/Poland
Corespondences, Modern Art and Universalism, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodź/Poland
re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb/Croatia
Uwiklane w Plec, Ausstellung der Sammlung Joanna und Krzysztof Madelski, BWA Galeria Sztuki, Olsztyn/Poland
Tate Modern, A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance/London/UK
2011 Particolare. Sztuka, która wznieca niepokoi, Palazzo Dona, Signum Foundation, Venice/Italy
Thymos. The Art of Anger 1900-2011 – CoCA, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun/Poland
Carpet Cleaning, ms2, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodź/Poland
re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive, Montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz/Spain
Konzeptuelle Fotografie, Freies Museum Berlin/Germany
2010 Le Promesses du passè, Centre Pompidou, Paris/France
Conceptos, Selection de Fondos del Museo Vostell Malpartida/ Museo Vostell Malpartida de Càceres/Spain
Gender Check, Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Zacheta Galerie,Warsaw/Poland
2nd Biennale Ars Polonia- In Space – Ars Polonia Biennial, Opole/Poland
2009 Gender Check. Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, MUMOK, Vienna/Austria
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? - Kunsthalle Wien/Museumsquartier Vienna/Austria
Performing the East, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg/Austria
Agents and Provocateurs, Institute of Contemporary art, Dunaujvaros/Hungary
REBELLE. Kunst & Feminisme 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnheim/the Netherlands
re.act.feminism & ExterraXX, Kunsthaus Erfurt/ Germany
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Germany
Wir Berliner/ My Berlinczycy, Märkisches Museum, Berlin/Germany
FALLMAUERFALL 61 – 89 – 09, Stadtmuseum Berlin/Germany
Three Women, Zacheta Galerie Warsaw/Poland
2008 UN COUP DE DÈS, Generali Foundation, Vienna/Austria
re.act.feminism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/Germany
WACK!Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery/Canada
Translate: The Impossible Collection, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdańsk/ Poland
Manifesta7, Trentino/Rovereto, Manifesta 2008/Italy
Team404 & John Armleder: Clinch/Cross/Cut, NEW JERSEYY Basel/Switzerland
SUNSET – I LOVE THE HORIZON, Le Magasin, Grenoble/France
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution PS.1 MoMA, New York /USA
Points of Reference – The Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art, Warsaw/Poland
I love the Horizon – MAGAZIN- Centre National d´art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble/France
Teraz Artysci galerii Foto Art Medium Art Gallery, Masovian Centre of Contemporary/Poland
2007 WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Woman in the Arts, Washington/USA
1,2,3...Avant-Gardes, sala Rekalde, Bilbao/Spain
GENDER BATTLE, Centro Galego de arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela/Spanien
Antyfotografia, BWA Arsenal, Poznań /Poland
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/USA
FOR A SPECIAL PLACE, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York/USA
2006 1,2,3,...Avant-Gardes, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw/Poland
Word-Sculpture, Tate Modern/UK
Mit Macht zur Wahl, Frauenmuseum Bonn/Germany
GEGENSTÄNDE/HANDLUNGSFORMEN, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe/Germany
Every Day...Kunstverein Salzburg/Austria
Primera generacion, Arte e imagon en movimiento, 1963-1986, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spain
SUCEDIO, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
2005 Warszawa - Moskwa. Moskwa - Warszawa 1900-2000, Galeria Trietiakowska, Moscow/Russia
Malewicz w Polsce, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok/Poland
Bocca della verita, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth/Germany
Collected Views from East or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna/Austria
Potencjał, Budynek Metropolitan, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw/Polen
2004 Collected Views from East or West, Generali Foundation, Vienna/Austria
Bocca della Verita, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e:v. Bodenburg/Germany
Double Bind- Kunst-Kinder-Karriere, Paula Modersohn Becker Museum, Bremen/Germany
Documenta Dokumenta - Documenta Sztuki. Festiwal Fort Sztuki, Otwarta Pracownia, Kraków//Poland
2003 doublebind- Kunst-Kinder-Karriere, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin /Germany
Samizdat, European Parliament, Brussels/Belgium
Yellow Pages – Turmgalerie 333, Helmstedt/Germany
2002 Europaweit. Kunst der 60er Jahre, Staedtische Galerie, Karlsruhe/Germany
Europaweit. Kunst der 60er Jahre, Staatlische Galerie Moritzburg, Halle/Germany
Eva und die Schlange, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth/Germany
Autonomiczny Ruch Konceptualny w Polsce, Galeria BWA, Lublin/Poland
Semiotic Landscape, Charim Galerie, Vienna/Austria
Pejzaż semiotyczny, Królikarnia, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw/Poland
Samizdat, Narodni Muzeum, Praha/ehem. Czech Republic
2000 Samizdat, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin/Germany
1997 Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
1996 20 Jahre Galerie Wewerka, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin/Germany
1992 Miteinander, Polnisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin/Germany
Lyon, Lodź, Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, 1931-1992, Musée d'art contemporain Lyon, Lyon/France
1991 Jesteśmy, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw/Poland
Polish Photography, Navigator Foundation, Boston/USA
Bakunin in Dresden, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw/Poland
1990 Bakunin in Dresden. Polnische Kunst heute, Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf/Germany
Bakunin in Dresden. Polnische Kunst heute, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg/Germany
Noire et Blanche Pologne, Galerie Picto Bastille, Paris/France
Verein der Beliner Kuenstlerinnen e.V., Rathaus Schoeneberg, Berlin/Germany
1989 Der Kongres, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin/Germany
1988 Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax/UK
Accrochage, Galerie Gudrun Schulz, Berlin/Germany
1986 Polska 86. Exhibition of 20th Century Polish Photography, City of Boston, Navigator Foundation, Boston/USA
1985 Kunstmesse, Frauenmuseum Bonn/Germany
Überwindung der Mauer, Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin/Germany
Friedens Biennale, Hamburg/Germany
Photographies Polonaises du XXieme Siecle, Digne/France
1984 Zeitgenössische Polnische Kunst, Galerie Dialog, Berlin/Germany
1983 Neuerwerbungen der Arthotek, NBK- Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,Berlin/Germany
Art Library, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping/Sweden
Photography in Poland, Thackerey & Robertson Gallery, San Francisco/USA
Kunst konzentriert, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1982 Quatro (by Sol Le Witt), Milano/Italy
1980 Ohne Kunst kein Fortschritt - ohne Fortschritt keine Kunst, Fulda/Germany
1979 Appolinaire Gallery, Milano/Italy
1978 Międzynarodowe Triennale Rysunku, Wrocław/Polen
Festiwal Sztuk Pięknych ZPAP, Warsaw/Polen
1977 Anti-Dokumenta, Kassel/Germany
Film as Film - Film as Art, Galeria Adres, Łódź/Polen
Kunst als kommunikative, Amsterdam/Niederlande
1976 Small Press - Festival '76, Kontakt Gallery, Antwerp/Belgium
1975 Last International Exhibition of Mail Art '75, Arte Nuevo Gallery, Buenos Aires/Argentinien
Vargen, Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Sweden
Spatial Poem, Osaka/Japan
1974 Prospectiva 74, Sao Paulo/Brasilia
Wolf, Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Sweden
Banana. Mail Art, Schwarz Gallery, Milan/Italy
Festival de la Postal Creatíva / Creative Postcard Festival, Gallery U, Montevideo
1973 Omaha Flow Systems (by Ken Friedman), Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska/USA
W.O.R.K.S., Conceptual Graphics "Reading of Our World", Calgary/Kanada
Fluxus West, San Diego/USA
Correspondance d'art de Pologne (by Ben Vautier), La Fenetre, Nice/France
An International Cyclopedia of Plans and Occurrences, Anderson Gallery, DK
Richmond, Virginia/USA Biennale der räumlichen Form – Kinolabor, Galeria El, Elbląg/Poland
1971 Biennale der räumlichen Form, Zjazd Marzycieli, Galeria El, Elblag/Poland
ACTIONS, PERFORMANCES AND INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACE
2017 Polenbegeisterungswelle, Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Berlin/Germany
2016 NIECZYTELNOSC, Palimpsesty, Muzeum Pana Tadeusza Wrocław/Poland
2015 Speaking Parts – Raven Raw, London/UK
2012 Metapoetry, 18th Biennale of Sydney/Australia
2006 Perlen (Perlas), Museo Malpartida Vostell, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
2006 Active Poetry,-Text-Installation nach dem Text von James Joyce „Ulysses“,,
Tate Modern, Turbinenhalle, London/UK
2006 Text-Installation im öffentlichem Raum mit einem Text von Adam Mickiewicz,Nationalmuseum Warsaw/Polen
2006 Ästhetik, Nationalmuseum Warsaw/Polen
2005 Kuratorinnen- zwischen der Institutionalisierung und dem Privaten, Zielona Góra/Poland
1993 Ästhetik, Polnisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin/Germany
1993 Gedankenakt ist ein Kunstakt, Kunst Service/ Christiane Müller Galerie Berlin/Germany
1992 Flamenco in Weiss, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
1992 Ästhetik, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spanien
1992 Polnische Künstlerinnen bekommen ihre Chance erst als Leiche,
Aktion in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Berlin/Germany
1991 Ästhetik, Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn/Germany
1990 Konzert der Haare, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf/Germany
1990 Ästhetik, Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg/Germany
1989 Gedankenakt ist ein Kunstakt, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin/Germany
1987 Text Installation im öffentlichen Raum. Olivaer Platz, Berlin/Germany
1985 Private Performance- Standesamt, Berlin/Germany
1984 Pirouette, Galerie Dialog, Berlin/Germany
1984 Installation am Spandauer Schiffskanal, Berlin/Germany
1983 Hommage a Solidarnosc, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1983 Stupid Woman 5, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1983 Konzert der Haare, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1982 Hommage a Solidarnosc/Installation, Galerie Wewerka, Berlin/Germany
1982 Hommage a Solidarnosc, Czyszczenie Dywanow, Lodź/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 4, Galeria Dziekanka, Warsaw/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 3, Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Cracow/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 2, BWA, Cracow/Poland
1981 Stupid Woman 1, Miastko/Świerzów/Poland
1981 Hochzeitskleidung, BWA, Labirynt Galerie, Lublin/Poland
1980 Frauen- Die Hochzeit ist gegen euch, ON Galerie, Poznań/Polen
1980 Selbstidentifikation, Mala Galerie, ZPFAF, Warsaw/Polen
1979 Change- Mein Problem ist das Problem einer Frau, Art Forum Galerie,Lodź/Poland
1974 Change- Performance, Adres Galerie, Lodź/Poland
1971 Legalität des Raumes, BWA Galerie, Lodź/Poland
1971 Frühstück im Freien nach E.Manet, Elbląg /Poland
1971 Aktive Poesie, Warsaw/Poland
1965 Anwesenheit/Abwesenheit, Sopot/Poland
FILMSCREENINGS/LECTURES
2013 Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Gorzów Wielkopolski/ Poland
2011 Royal College of Art, London/UK
2010 Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw/Poland
2009 Fragmentos del Este, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
2009 Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spanien
2006 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Videoforum Berlin
2006 Galeria Barbara Wien, Berlin
2006 Tate Modern, Word Sculpture/London/UK
2003 KINO LAB, Zamek Ujazdowski (CSW) Warsaw/Polen
2003 Oslo Open/Schweden
2003 CSW Laznia, Danzig/Polen
2003 Atelier Nord, Oslo/Schweden
2003 The Kitchen, New York/USA
COLLECTIONS (selection)
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York/USA
Tate Modern, London/UK
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spain
Sammlung Verbund, Wien/Austria
Generali Foundation, Wien/Austria
49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz/France
Navigator Foundation, Boston, Mass. Boston/USA
The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group and Erste Foundation, Vienna/Austria
Museo Vostell Malpartida, Malpartida de Caceres/Spain
Performing Archive – Re.Act. Feminism, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin/Germany
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin/Germany
Frauenmuseum Bonn, Bonn/Germany
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin/Germany
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin/Germany
Arsenal Gallery, Białystok/Poland
Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk/Poland
Instytut Sztuki PAN, Warsaw/Poland
Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesnej MWW, Wrocław/Poland
Muzeum Narodowe, Wrocław/Poland
Galeria Studio, Warsaw/Poland
ms- Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodź/Poland
Zachęta Sztuki Współczesnej, Szczecin/Poland
Fundacja Signum, Poznań/Venice/Poland/Italy
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/Poland
The National Museum in Warsaw/Poland
Sammlung Czyszczenie Dywanow, Lodź/Poland
Galeria Raster, Warsaw/Poland
Museum Susch, Susch/Schwitzerland
Art Tank Collection, Warsaw/Poland
Fundacja Sztuki Współczesnej in situ, Sokołowsko/Poland