Ewa Partum. Lovis Corinth Prize 2024

The Polish artist Ewa Partum (b. 1945 Grodzisk Mazowiecki, near Warsaw, Poland) is receiving the Lovis Corinth Prize 2024. Her contribution to art has been pioneering for both conceptual and feminist art. Despite censorship in socialist Poland, in her performances and actions since the 1960s she has advocated for the perception of women in public spaces and especially for equality for women artists. She has often worked with her naked body to do so. With the Galeria Adres (Address Gallery) that she founded in Łódź in 1972, she established via mail art diverse contacts with the art scene even beyond the Iron Curtain. Partum experimented with texts and often worked with the capital letters used by the Polish government for propaganda purposes. During the period of marital law in the early 1980s, she was one of the artists who operated under the sign of the Solidarność union to protest oppression, dismissals, and imprisonment. In 1982 she succeeded into emigrating to Berlin, where she has since lived and worked.

This exhibition at the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie is Ewa Partum’s first solo presentation at a German museum. It offers an overview of the artist’s work from the 1960s to the present. It includes objects from her performances in public spaces in Poland and Berlin: photographs, films, and installations.

This exhibition was organized in cooperation with Ewa Partum, Berenika Partum and Gallery Mathias Güntner, Berlin/Hamburg

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