The performance artist was a brilliantly subversive pioneer whose work exposed the predicament of women living in a world that was not made for us ...

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

Best known for daring audiences to face and feel the female body on her own terms, the performance artist died in Vienna on ...

In provocative performance pieces and films, she forced viewers to confront misogyny in the media and society at large.

The Austrian artist who turned her body into a radical feminist instrument spent four decades daring audiences to look away ...

Valie Export, a trailblazer in avant-garde feminist art, has passed away at 85. Known for her groundbreaking performance art, she adopted her famous pseudonym in the 1960s. Her influential works ...

Provocative performance artist, filmmaker and feminist Valie Export, arguably one of Austria's best known living artist, died on Thursday in Vienna just three days before her 86th birthday. "We mourn ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next Saturday, the artist VALIE EXPORT will turn 85 years old. A retrospective. On May 17, the media and performance artist, filmmaker, and feminist theorist VALIE EXPORT celebrates her 85th birthday.