Ewa Partum: Contemplating Art, Contemplating Love

Name: Ewa Partum: Contemplating Art, Contemplating Love
Start: 2026-03-07
End: 2026-06-14
Location: MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow

Open 11:00-19:00. Closed Mon. ul. Lipowa 4

Born in Grodzisk Mazowiecki in 1945, Ewa Partum is one of Poland’s pioneering conceptual and feminist artists, and the year 2026 marks both her 80th birthday and six decades of her artistic work. Emerging in the late 1960s in socialist Poland, Partum developed a radical artistic language that challenged patriarchal norms in art and society, often using her own body, language, and performance as tools of critique. Her work ranges from conceptual poetry and public interventions to provocative performances that questioned women’s roles, authority and freedom in the public sphere. A key figure in the international conceptual and Fluxus networks, she also ran the influential Adres Gallery in Łódź in the 1970s, fostering experimental art and exchange across political borders.

The exhibition places her pioneering work in dialogue with international contemporaries such as Joseph Beuys and VALIE EXPORT, as well as younger artists inspired by her legacy. Through photographs, installations and documentation of performances, it explores key themes of corporeality, voice, touch and political expression. Together, the works reveal how Partum transformed conceptual art into a powerful tool of feminist and social critique.