VALIE EXPORT

Biographie

VALIE EXPORT was born in Linz, Austria in 1940. After attending the School of Arts and Crafts in Linz, 1956 to 1959, she graduated from the Höhere Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Textilindustrie, Vienna, from 1960 to 1964. In 1967 she gave herself the name VALIE EXPORT as an artistic concept and logo. She co-founded the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative in 1967 and participated in many international exhibitions, including Documenta 6, 1977, and the Biennale di Venezia in 1978 and 1980 in the Austrian Pavilion. In 2009 VALIE EXPORT was co-commissioner of the Austria Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. VALIE EXPORT has taught at numerous institutions such as the Art Institute in San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee/USA, and the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. From 1995/96 to 2005 she was professor for multimedia performance at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. The artist received the Generali Foundation Sculpture Prize in 1995 and the Oskar Kokoschka Prize in 2000. In 2022 she was awarded the Max Beckmann Prize and was honored with the Grand Decoration of Honor in Silver with Star for services to the Republic of Austria. VALIE EXPORT lives in Vienna.

Additional biography

In the "Expanded cinema" works, EXPORT developed her performative approach in a radical, actionist way. Being the actor herself, she experimented with the limits of cinema in drastic ways. In her cinematic actions she broke the usual passive reception characteristic of the medium. "Ping Pong" (1968) was awarded a prize as the most political film shown at the second Maraisiade in Vienna. At the award presentation, EXPORT performed, for the first time, her body action "TAP AND TOUCH CINEMA" (1968) where she raised the issue of the female body being turned into an object in the media. EXPORT is a self-declared "media artist" and is a pioneer in this regard both in her cinematic and video work. In a series entitled "Body Configuration Series" (1972- 82), she approached the issue of the relationship between a constructed body language and the surrounding urban space. She has continued her taboo-breaking, socially critical work since the late 1980s, in her involvement with digital technologies. As a focal point, along with the "TAP and TOUCH CINEMA", the Generali Foundation collects VALIE EXPORT’s video works, and has also restored her early film installations and for the first time made these available again to the public in an exhibition of her cinematic work in 1996. (Monika Vykoukal)

Artist's books

  • EXPORT, VALIE. Acta Occidentia Scientia. Projekt Studie alpha) Zeitstruktur: Identität. Linz: Kursiv Kunstbuch, 1997.
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  • Die Schastrommel. Organ der österreichischen Exilregierung, Nr. 7 (März 1972).
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