VALIE EXPORT
Multimedia artistBorn on May 17, 1940, in Linz as Waltraud Lehner, she adopted the stage name VALIE EXPORT in 1967. She attended the School of Applied Arts in Linz from 1955 to 1958 and the Higher Technical College for Textile Design in Vienna from 1960 to 1964. 1968 TAPP and TASTKINO, 12 Seconds Without Visual Experience; 1977 she participated in documenta 6 as well as 2007 in documenta 12. 1980 VALIE EXPORT she represented Austria together with Maria Lassnig at the Venice Biennale. Since the 1970s, lectures and professorships on film and art at various European and American universities and art colleges. 1991 to 1995 Professor of Design with Technical Image Media/Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1994 and 1995, she was vice president of this university. From 1995 to 2005, she was a professor of multimedia performance in Cologne. In 2009, she was commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (with Silvia Eiblmayr) and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Art and Design Linz. In 2015, the VALIE EXPORT Center, a research center for media and performance art, was founded in Linz.
Participation in international film and video festivals, including the International London Film Festival, Filmex Los Angeles, Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hong Kong, Sydney, and New York.
Awards (selection)
2019 Roswitha Haftmann Prize
2015 Grand Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Linz
2014 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Awards for the Arts
2010 Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria
2005 Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art
2003 Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Province of Vienna
2000 Oskar Kokoschka Prize
2000 Alfred Kubin Prize
1998 Austrian Award for Artistic Photography
1997 Gabriele Münter Prize
1995 Sculpture Prize from the Generali Foundation
Venice Biennale
2019 Personal Structures - Identities. Palazzo Mora, 58th Venice Biennale
2017 Body and Soul. Performance Art - Past and Present. Palazzo Pisani, 57th Venice Biennale
2013 Personal Structures - Culture Mind Becoming. Palazzo Mora, 55th Venice Biennale
2009 Commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion with Silvia Eiblmayr. 53rd Venice Biennale
2007 THE PAIN OF UTOPIA, 52th Venice Biennale
2005 Body Attack. 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Dance, 51rst Venice Biennale
1982 Ambiente. 40th Venice Biennale
1978 Arte et Cinema, Opera storiche documenti e materiali attuali 1916–1978. 38th Venice Biennale
1980 Austrian Pavilion with Maria Lassnig. 39th Venice Biennale
Solo exhibitions (selection), works (selection)
2019 VALIE EXPORT. Expanded Arts. Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier
2019 VALIE EXPORT. Research – Archive – Oeuvre. Vox, Montreal
2018 VALIE EXPORT. Fama et Infamia. The Infamy of the Nameless. Ambras Castle, Innsbruck
2018 VALIE EXPORT. Body Configurations 1972–1976. Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris
2017 VALIE EXPORT. The Archive as a Place of Artistic Research. LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz
2017 Bodies and Boundaries, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Sweden
2015 VALIE EXPORT. Metanoia. Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York
2011 VALIE EXPORT. ARCHIVE. Kunsthaus Bregenz
2010 Time and Countertime. LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz; Belvedere, Vienna
2010 Anagrammatic composition with dice game. Permanent installation, Theater an der Wien
2009 VALIE EXPORT. The Israel Museum, Ticho House, Jerusalem
2007 Art Basel Miami Beach. Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York
2007 VALIE EXPORT. Centre Pompidou, Paris
2005 VALIE EXPORT. An exhibition of works. Essl Collection – Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg
2004 VALIE EXPORT. Series. Atelier Augarten - Belvedere, Vienna
2004 VALIE EXPORT. Un dia en 1967. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla
2004 VALIE EXPORT. Políticas de género. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid
2004 The Power of Language. Freud Museum, London
2003 VALIE EXPORT. Media Anagrams. Academy of Arts, Berlin
2003 VALIE EXPORT. Centre National de la Photographie, Jeu de Paume, Paris
2001 Ob/De+Con(Struction). Santa Monica of Art, Santa Monica
1997 Masks, Jewish Museum Vienna
1997 Split Reality: VALIE EXPORT. Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna;
1991 Within the continuum of the body. Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich
1986 Body Works. Eubie Blake Museum, Baltimore
1984 The Practise of Love. Feature film
1980 Video Work, Projects, Photograhies. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1977 Body fragments from the Hippocratic face of the present. Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
1976 VALIE EXPORT. Body configurations 1972-1976. Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna
1976 Invisible enemies. Feature film
1975 VALIE EXPORT. Works from 1968-1975. 9th Biennale de Paris, Manifestation Internationale des Jeunes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1972 Body configurations "Zuhockung II"
1970 Conceptual photography „ZEITGEDICHT/24Stunden 24mal fotografiert“
1969 Self-staging Photography „Aktionshose: Genitalpanik“. Munich
Group exhibitions (selection)
2019 Art Basel Unlimited, Basel
2018 4th Kochi-Murziris Biennale, Kochi
2018 Solitary Pleasures. Freud Museum, London
2017 Austria. Photography 1970-2000. Albertina, Vienna
2017 Feminist Avant-Garde. Collection Verbund, mumok, Vienna
2016 Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Verbund Collection, Photographer‘s Gallery, London
2016 Action. Kunsthaus Zurich
2016 Botticelli Reimagined. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2016 From the Collection: 1960-1969. MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
VALIE EXPORT's artistic work includes video, digital photography, installation, body performance, feature films, experimental and documentary films, expanded cinema, conceptual photography, objects, and texts on art history and feminism. Her works often deal with investigations into experiencing media reality, the reality that is represented through media; VALIE EXPORT calls these works “media anagrams.”