27.02.2026 – 28.06.2026
The exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum is the first comprehensive exhibition of the Polish artist’s work in Austria. Since the mid-1960s, Partum has consciously combined feminist intentions with conceptual and aesthetic strategies. The exhibition, curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, presents key works by the artist. The Legality of Space is installed in the outdoor space in front of the museum. First shown in 1971 on Freedom Square in Łódź, the installation consists of traffic signs and self-designed mandatory and prohibitory signs and draws attention to state control of public space. For Change, the artist had half of her face made up as an ageing woman in 1974 and put up around 600 posters of this transformation around the city in 1978. In Self – Identification from 1980, she collaged her naked body into street scenes and, at the exhibition opening, stepped naked onto the pavement in front of the gallery at the moment when a wedding party was standing there in front of a registry office. My touch is the touch of a woman – this sentence appears beneath the lipstick-red kiss on one of her mail art sheets from 1971, accompanied by the remark poem by ewa.
ewa partum – conceptual exercises
27.02.2026 – 28.06.2026
Francisco Carolinum Linz
Museusstraße 14
4020 Linz
www.ooekultur.at
