Representative work by VALIE EXPORT
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VALIE EXPORT

b. 1940, Linz, Austria · Austrian · Based in Vienna, Austria

  • National School of Textile Industry, Vienna (1964)
  • Feminist Performance
  • Expanded Cinema
  • Conceptual Photography
  • Video

VALIE EXPORT emerged from the Vienna Actionist context but developed a distinctly feminist practice centered on the body, media and public space. Her performances, photographs and films challenged passive spectatorship and the representation of women in mass culture.

Performance; photography; film

Gallery Representation

Artist Films

Major Works

  • 1968Tap and Touch Cinema
  • 1969Action Pants: Genital Panic
  • 1970Body Sign Action
  • 1971Eros/ion
  • 1973Adjunct Dislocations
  • 1973Mann & Frau & Animal
  • 1973Hyperbulie
  • 1983Syntagma
  • 1971Facing a Family
  • 1972–82Body Configurations

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Interviews & Writing

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