"“The artist's groundbreaking films and performances in the 1960s and 1970s introduced a new form of radical, embodied feminism to Europe,” Export's gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac, noted while announcing her death."
"“The multidisciplinary nature of Export's 'Expanded Cinema' practice, and her use of her own body as an artistic medium, position her as one of the earliest performance artists alongside Joseph Beuys and Allan Kaprow.”"
"Export was born Waltraud Lehner in Linz, Austria-which opened a media research center devoted to her in 2016-amid the throes of World War II. Her father died while fighting for the Nazis. Export dropped out of Catholic school at 14, then got married and had a daughter at 18. Two years later, she divorced her husband, placed her daughter with her sister, and left for Vienna, where she studied painting, drawing, and design at the National School for Textile Industry just as the Viennese Actionist movement hit its stride."
"In 1968, the same year she she co-founded the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative, Export entered a mundane Munich cinema wearing crotchless pants and began walking past unsuspecting, seated theatergoers, her most private body part confronting them at eye level as part of Aktionhose Genitalpanik. The stunt aimed to demonstrate what happens when you remove a woman's sexuali"
Valie Export, an Austrian performer, sculptor, and filmmaker, died at age 85. Her 1960s and 1970s films and performances introduced radical embodied feminism to Europe. Her multidisciplinary “Expanded Cinema” practice used her own body as an artistic medium, placing her among early performance artists. Born Waltraud Lehner in Linz during World War II, she left Catholic school at 14, married at 18, and later divorced, placing her daughter with her sister before moving to Vienna to study art. In 1967 she adopted the name Valie Export. In 1968 she staged Aktionhose Genitalpanik in a Munich cinema by walking past seated viewers in crotchless pants to confront them directly.
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