[1] Partum's work also 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.

[1] Partum's work explores issues of female identity, including the gender bias of the art world.

At the beginning of the 1970s, while the amount of artist run institutions increased, there was also a development of a new paradigm that perpetuated the dominant, institutionalized model of art, which Partum considered confining.

In a performance called Change, in 1974, Partum had a makeup artist work on half of her naked body in front of an audience.

In one of Partum's performances during the period of martial law in 1982, she is naked and wearing red lipstick, and formed the word “Solidarnosc,” meaning solidarity, one by one with her lips on a piece of white paper.

In an exhibition on the subject of the Berlin Wall, she photographs herself naked in high-heels, and holding up a big letter “O” in her right hand and a “W” in her left, signifying Ost-West Schatten, or east–west shadows.

Partum described the gallery as "a place, a situation, an opportunity, an offer, for information, proposition, documentation, speculation, provocation, exposition".

[6] In July 2013, the Frac Lorraine in Metz, Francep held an exhibition entitled, “Bad Girls: A Collection in Action”, honoring female artists who dedicated their work to deconstructing established order and creating room for freedom, experience, and life, changing the audience's vision of the future and encouraging social change.

[9] In interviews, Partum has celebrated the work of retrospective exhibitions, in that they allow the audience and critics to "trace the genealogy of the artist's language.