1. Ewa Partum then went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1965, where she studied in the painting department.
11 Facts About Ewa Partum
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Ewa Partum gained her diploma for her work with poetry as art, and she received her diploma in 1970.
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Ewa Partum engages in linguistic and performative play in an attempt to discover new artistic language.
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Ewa Partum's work is motivated by touching on issues such as the notion of public space, the situation of women, female subjectivity and the political context of the 1980s.
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Ewa Partum's work explores issues of female identity, including the gender bias of the art world.
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At one point, Ewa Partum declared she would perform naked until women in the art world obtained equal rights.
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Ewa Partum announced that she was a work of art, making her body an element of the feminist discourse.
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Early conceptual-poetic pieces include Active Poetry, in which Ewa Partum used the wind to scatter cut-out letters in a variety of landscapes, using their random distribution to create poetry.
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Ewa Partum's films act both as documentation of her poetic and performative work and as explorations of film as a medium, in line with the structural cinema of the 1960s.
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Ewa Partum worked as the organizer and curator of a very influential mail art gallery from 1971 through 1977.
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Ewa Partum described the gallery as "a place, a situation, an opportunity, an offer, for information, proposition, documentation, speculation, provocation, exposition".