VALIE EXPORT

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VALIE EXPORT (born Waltraud Lehner, later Waltraud Höllinger, 17 May 1940, Linz - 14 May 2026, Vienna) was an Austrian artist. Her work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.

Born as Waltraud Lehner in 1940 in Linz, Austria, VALIE EXPORT attended the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and graduated from the Vienna HBLVA trade school for the textile industry in 1964. Since 1967 she has assumed the name VALIE EXPORT as a brand and artistic concept. Her career took off in the late 1960s when her sensational public actions, which were at home in performance and media art, and which the artist developed from a feminist perspective, began drawing attention to her work. Her participation in the documenta 6 in Kassel (1977) and the Venice Biennale (1980) helped thrust her art into the international spotlight. Next to her prolific international exhibition activity, the co-founder of the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative has taken part in numerous film and video festivals around the world. Her curatorial practice began in the 1970s with a focus on feminism and media art. Some of her groundbreaking exhibitions include MAGNA (1975) and Kunst mit Eigensinn (1985).

VALIE EXPORT has held professorships at numerous universities: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1989–1992), the Berlin University of the Arts (1991–1995), and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (1995–2005).

The 2015 acquisition of EXPORT’s archive by the city of Linz led to the inauguration of the VALIE EXPORT Center, which opened in November 2017 as a research center for performance and media art. (2018)

Gallery[edit]

  • From the Portfolio of Dogness (in cooperation with Peter Weibel), 1968. 80 x 121 cm Gelatin silver print

  • GROPE and TOUCH CINEMA, 1968. 76 x 85 cm Gelatin silver print

  • Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969. 69.9 x 49.8 cm, Poster, silkscreen print

  • VALIE EXPORT - SMART EXPORT Self-Portrait, 1970. 69 x 60 cm Gelatin silver print

  • BODY SIGN B, 1970. 105 x 70 cm, Gelatin silver print

  • Injuries I, 1972. 42 x 61 cm Gouache on gelatin silver print

  • Train II (conceptual photography, object installation), 1972. 60 x 240 cm, Silkscreen print on glass plates

  • Adjugated Dislocations, 1973.

  • ASEMIA – The Inability to Express Oneself through Facial Expressions, 1973. 18 x 24 cm, Gelatin silver print

  • From the Geometric Sketchbook of Nature: TREE TRIANGLE, 1973. 31 × 42 cm Gelatin silver print, red india ink

  • After-Fitting, 1974. 42 x 61 cm Black ink on gelatin silver print

  • Attach To, 1976. 56 x 79 cm, Gelatin silver print

  • DIVIDE AND CONQUER! after: Martin Schongauer, „The Holy Family“ 1475-1480, 1976. 51 × 42 cm, Gelatin silver print

Films, videos[edit]

  • Splitscreen - Solipsismus, 1968, 3 min. Expanded film, film installation. XSCREEN, Cologne, 1968.
  • Mann & Frau & Animal [Man & Woman & Animal], 1970/1973, 16mm, 12 min, b/w and colour. The Austrian Exhibition, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1973.
  • Interrupted Line, 1971/1972, 16mm, b/w, 9 min. The Austrian Exhibition, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1973.
  • Adjungierte Dislokationen, 1973, 16mm and Super8, 10 min, b/w, no sound. Festival of independent avant-garde film, National Film Theatre, London, 1973.
  • Unsichtbare Gegner [Invisible Adversaries], 1976, 16mm, 112 min, colour. Feature film. Premiered at Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, 1977. [1]
  • Menschenfrauen, 1979, 16mm, 124 min, colour. Feature film. Premiered at Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, 1980 .
  • Syntagma, 1983, 16 mm, 18 min, colour. Premiered at Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, 1984.
  • Die Praxis der Liebe [The Practice of Love], 1984, 35mm, 90 min, colour. Feature film. Premiered at Wettbewerb der 35. Internationalen Filmfestspiele Berlin, 1985. [2]
  • I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head, 2008, 11'30.

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Writings, lectures[edit]

Catalogues[edit]

  • VALIE EXPORT, ed. Peter Assmann, Linz: Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie, 1992. (German)
  • Split:Reality. VALIE EXPORT, 2nd ed., exp., ed. Monika Faber, Vienna: mumok, and Springer, 1997, 227 pp. Exh. review: Christian Kravagna (Artforum). (German)/(English)
  • Valie Export: ob/de+con(struction), ed. Elsa Longhauser, Philadelphia: Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, 2000, 64 pp. Exh. held at the Goldie Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, Jan. 18-Feb. 27, 2000 and at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, and the Maltz Gallery, Otis School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Mar. 9-Apr. 28, 2001. Exhibition. Exh. review: Michael Rush (Art in America). [5] (English)
  • Hommage à VALIE EXPORT, ed. Hemma Schmutz, Linz: Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, and VALIE EXPORT Center, 2020, 15 pp. Exh. booklet. (German)

Interviews[edit]

On VALIE EXPORT[edit]

  • Anita Prammer, Valie Export. Eine multimediale Künstlerin, Vienna: Wiener Frauenverlag, 1988, 218 pp. Review: Katharina Sykora (Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft). (German)
  • Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Valie Export und Elfriede Jelinek im Spiegel der Presse : zur Rezeption der feministischen Avantgarde Österreichs, Vienna: P. Lang, 1992, x+224 pp, IA. (German)
  • Andrea Zell, Valie Export. Inszenierung von Schmerz: Selbstverletzung in den frühen Aktionen, Berlin: Reimer, 2000. (German)
  • Thomas Trummer (ed.), Valie Export. Serien, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2004. (German)
  • Sylvia Szely (ed.), EXPORT Lexikon. Chronologie der bewegten Bilder bei VALIE EXPORT, Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2007, 248 pp. (German)
  • Invisible Adversaries, eds. Tom Eccles and Lauren Cornell, CCS Bard, 2016, 300 pp. Group exh. inspired by the eponymous 1976 feature film by VALIE EXPORT. Exhibition. Publisher. Exh. review: Randy Kennedy (NYT). (English)
  • How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT, eds. Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein, and Katharina Müller, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2025, 240 pp. Publisher. (German)
    • How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2025, 240 pp. TOC. Publisher. (German)

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Links[edit]

  • Distribution: EAI
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