Austrian artist who used performance, photography and sculpture to challenge the representation of women ...

The artist Valie Export sits across from me in an apartment above Thaddaeus Ropac’s London gallery, which is currently hosting an exhibition of her work. Export, whose given name is Waltraud Lehner ...

Export’s performances scandalised Austria in the 1960s, but are now recognised for exposing the objectification of the female body ...

Austrian artist Valie Export, a powerfully provocative yet playful force in feminist art, died on May 14, three days before her 86th birthday. The news of her passing was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac ...

VALIE EXPORT, “Starre Identität” (1972), black and white silver gelatin print on baryta paper laid on chip board (all photos Renée Reizman/Hyperallergic) LOS ANGELES — The Austrian conceptual artist ...

Valie Export, the brave performer, sculptor, and filmmaker who pushed the global vanguard of feminist art, died yesterday. She was 85. “The artist’s groundbreaking films and performances in the 1960s ...

In provocative performance pieces and films, she forced viewers to confront misogyny in the media and society at large. Valie Export, “Tap and Touch Cinema.” With an empty box strapped to her chest, ...

Art world tributes have been paid to the Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, who died 14 May, three days before her 86th birthday. Her death was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac, who represents her. Born in ...

The women pop up again and again, in canvas after canvas, like a random intrusive thought that refuses to go away, or a masturbatory fixation that both disturbs and excites.

Forty years ago, when Valie Export presented her “birth bed” installation in the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the reaction was “so-so”, she says. The sculpture—consisting of a pair of ...

Valie Export is an Austrian Postwar & Contemporary photographer who was born in 1940. How much does a Valie Export cost? Valie Export's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized ...