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VALIE EXPORT

born 1940

Action Pants: Genital Panic 1969
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Biography

Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer animations, photography, sculpture and publications covering contemporary art.

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Performance art Feminist art Identity politics

Artworks

  • Identity Transfer 1

    VALIE EXPORT
    1968, printed late 1990s
  • Identity Transfer 2

    VALIE EXPORT
    1968, printed late 1990s
  • Identity Transfer 3

    VALIE EXPORT
    1968, printed late 1990s
  • Action Pants: Genital Panic

    VALIE EXPORT
    1969
    On display at Tate Modern part of Performer and Participant

Artist as subject

  • Identity Transfer 1

    VALIE EXPORT
    1968, printed late 1990s
  • Identity Transfer 2

    VALIE EXPORT
    1968, printed late 1990s
  • Identity Transfer 3

    VALIE EXPORT
    1968, printed late 1990s
  • Action Pants: Genital Panic

    VALIE EXPORT
    1969
    On display at Tate Modern part of Performer and Participant

Film and audio

  • Interview

    VALIE EXPORT: 'I Created my Own Identity'

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