Natalia LL. Only love will survive 


Solo exhibition26. April – 31. May 2024Curator:  Prof. Dr. Marta Smolińska
Natalia LL is one of the first artists in Poland to create feminist works. Since the 1960s, she has been fighting in her works for the emancipation of women, erotic freedom, and the liberation of the female body from the role of a passive, male gaze object. Her artistic creation was a courageous attempt to denounce traditional values. Because even though the equality of women was promoted in socialist countries, the reality was different. Nakedness was considered in socialist countries as both an authority and system critical gesture and as resistance against the prevailing social norms and conservative Catholicism. Against this background, one of her works is currently on display at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin as part of the exhibition “Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society. Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000” in the chapter “Liberation of the Body”, among other feminist artists from the West (including Martha Rosler, Rebecca Horn, Valie EXPORT, Hannah Wilke), Japan (Yoko Ono), or the so-called former Eastern Bloc (including Cornelia Schleime, Ewa Partum, Marina Abramović).

The exhibition at NADAN, featuring works from the artist's three series (”Consumer Art”, “The Word”, and “Animalistic Art”), takes its title “Only love will survive” from Natalia LL's 2013 text “Magical Intimacy.” In this text, the artist emphasizes that the most important things for her are everyday life, intimacy, and love.

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Selected Works



Word, 1971
Original silver gelatine print
51.5 × 46 cm each

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Natalia at the LGBT demonstration in New York, 1977
Print from negative
15 × 15 cm

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Consumer Art/Banana 2, 1972
Digital negative print after 1990s
30.2 × 40.4 cm each

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Animal Art, 1977
Digital print
80 × 80 cm each

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