Valie Export

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Valie Export (born May 17, 1940 in Linz ), real name Waltraud Stockinger , formerly Waltraud Höllinger , b. Waltraud Lehner is an Austrian media artist , performance artist and filmmaker .

Life

Waltraud Lehner grew up in Linz with two sisters as the daughter of a war widow and went to a convent school. From 1955 to 1958 she attended the arts and crafts school in her hometown. She married at the age of 18 and had their daughter Perdita that same year. After separating from her husband, she went to Vienna in 1960 and attended the Federal Higher Education and Research Institute for the Textile Industry until 1964 . After graduating in design , she went into the film industry and worked as a script girl , film editor and extras .

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From 1965 she turned increasingly to the medium of film and in 1966 wrote a screenplay with the working title “FROM OLD DOES NOT NEW - an attempt at pointlessness. metaphorical image association, project “. In 1967 she adopted her artist name VALIE EXPORT as an artistic concept and logo, with the requirement that it should only be written in capital letters.

Expanded Cinema

Valie Export's early works are particularly characterized by their engagement with feminism , action art and the medium of film - especially with the expanded cinema movement in the late 1960s . One of their best known actions was the tap and touch cinema . Together with her new partner Peter Weibel , because of which she had ended a relationship with Friedensreich Hundertwasser , she realized it for the first time during the 1st European Meeting of Independent Filmmakers in Munich. During this performance in public places, Export wore a curly wig, was made up and carried a box with two openings over her bare breasts. The rest of the torso was covered with a cardigan. Peter Weibel advertised with a megaphone and invited the onlookers to visit. They had 33 seconds to reach through the openings with both hands and touch the artist's bare breasts.

Valie Export later said about this action: “(...) the tap and touch cinema - that was street action, it was feminism, it was expanded cinema, it was film; At that time I also called the tap and touch cinema Tapp and Tastfilm. (...), because I said at the time that anyone can carry out this film action, carry out film installation, there is no original. ”She saw this action as“ an extended cinema, which confronts film viewers with what is considered normal in the darkened hall: the voyeuristic view of women's bodies. "

Viennese actionism

Although she was in direct contact with the “ Viennese Actionists ” through her personal relationships , Export repeatedly emphasized the differences to the group's actions. Later she said in an interview: “Some of my work is certainly connected with Viennese Actionism, although there are serious differences. I feel that I belong to the whole direction of actionism, besides my work as a media artist or filmmaker, I see myself primarily as an action and performance artist. But I wouldn't compare that to Viennese Actionism because it was different from my forms of work in terms of aesthetics, content and form. "

In 1970 she was stripped of care for her daughter Perdita. The artist marked the emergence of Valie Export in the same year in the work VALIE EXPORT - Smart Export by partially covering a cigarette pack of the Austrian brand Smart Export with the name “VALIE” and her portrait, which was very popular at the time . She wanted this to be understood as a feminist criticism of patriarchal-capitalist ascription practices: Before a proper name conceals the individual feed into the market, it is better to replace it with a logo. In 1970, too, she turned her body into a canvas for her work “Body Sign Action” and had a garter belt tattooed on her thigh by the tattoo artist Horst Klassenbach. In 1971 she rolled naked over broken glass in order to “contrast the male gaze of a naked woman with a different perspective.” In 1972 she and Peter Weibel separated.

Mid 1970s until today

Landscape knife in Allentsteig .
The Austrian Film Prize designed by Valie Export and presented for the first time in 2011

In 1977 she took part in documenta 6 in Kassel . In 1980 she represented Austria together with Maria Lassnig at the Venice Biennale . In 1985, her feature film Die Praxis der Liebe was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in the book and directing category. In 1992 her work was presented for the first time in a solo exhibition as part of a retrospective in the Landesgalerie of the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz , which was followed by many more. At the same time, public awareness of her artistic work has since decreased.

From 1989 to 1992 Valie Export was Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee , School of Fine Arts, and from 1991 to 1995 Professor in the Faculty of Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts . During this time she also met her future second husband Robert Stockinger. From 1995/1996 to 2005 she was professor for multimedia performance at the Art Academy for Media Cologne . In 2007 she took part in the supporting program of documenta 12 as well as that of the Venice Biennale, where she was co-commissioner of the Austrian pavilion in 2009 .

Valie Export lives in Vienna .

The city of Linz acquired its archive in 2015 and opened the Valie Export Center in the tobacco factory in Linz on November 11, 2017 . Her legacy will be transferred to a former production facility of the company, whose Smart Export brand she took from her stage name.

In July 2020 orf.at reports that Valie Export is donating all of her cinematic work to the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna.

Awards

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Peter Assmann (Ed.): VALIE EXPORT. Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz 1992, ISBN 3-900746-48-6 .
  • Robert Kudielka, Michael Schoenholtz, Inge Zimmermann (Vorw.): From. drawn. to draw. An exhibition by the visual arts section. Akademie der Künste , April 25 to June 14, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88331-127-2 .
  • Roswitha Mueller: VALIE EXPORT - picture cracks. Passagen-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85165-354-8 .
  • Anita Prammer: VALIE EXPORT, a multimedia artist. Wiener Frauenverlag, 1988, ISBN 3-900399-25-5 .
  • Thomas Trummer (Ed.): VALIE EXPORT: Series. Revolver Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-86588-050-9 .
  • Andrea Zell: VALIE EXPORT. Staging Pain: Self-harm in the early actions. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01224-2 .

Web links

Commons : Valie Export  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Valie Export  - Quotes

Remarks

  1. ↑ Photo

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VALIE EXPORT Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH - Commercial register notification 4478821 from August 7, 2013 . On moneyhouse.at
  2. ↑ a b Jessica Rosenbrock: Analysis of current work examples in media art (VALIE EXPORT and Cindy Sherman) with regard to the relevance of media-specific aspects. Thesis, 2006, p. 3 ( as an excerpt online )
  3. ^ Matthias Dusini: Sex, Lies & Videos. In: Falter . No. 05/2005. (on-line)
  4. ↑ a b c Lt. own information in: biography . On: valieexport.at
  5. ↑ Katja Nicodemus : She shows us. In: The time . No. 46 on November 11, 2010, p. 71 ( online as PDF ( memento from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) approx. 14 MB)
  6. ↑ a b c Werner DePauli-Schimanovich : Europolis. Volume 4: Culture, Politics, Music, Revolutionary, Historical, Literary. Novum Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902514-89-9 , pp. 448–450 (online)
  7. ↑ VALIE EXPORT . On: wien.gv.at
  8. ↑ Andrea Zell: Valid Export. Staging pain: self-harm in the earlier actions. Berlin 2000, p. 15.
  9. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: The young have to find their own forms
  10. ↑ Metropolis on ARTE on Feb. 4, 2018
  11. ↑ Media Art Net: Media Art Net | Export, Valie: Tapp- und Tastkino. July 10, 2020, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Andrea Zell: VALIE EXPORT. Staging pain: self-harm in the earlier actions. Berlin 2000, p. 35.f.
  13. ↑ Gerald A. Matt and Austrian Parliament (eds.): Austria's art of the 60s. Conversations. 2011, p. 92.
  14. ↑ Andrea Zell: Valid Export. Staging pain: self-harm in the earlier actions. Berlin 2000, p. 18.
  15. ^ Susanne Weingarten: Return of the Prodigal Daughter. In: Der Spiegel . No. 18/1997 on April 28, 1997 (online)
  16. ↑ VALIE EXPORT . From: pomeranz-collection.com, accessed on August 31, 2014.
  17. ↑ Ines Kappert: The mechanics of the look. VALIE EXPORT co-invented and shaped media art. In: Jungle World . No. 6 on January 29, 2003 (online) ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jungle-world.com
  18. ↑ Thomas Trenkler: VALIE EXPORT: “I wanted out” . On April 14, 2015 on thomastrenkler.at (excerpt from I fell into a world - conversations about art and life . Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85033-607-9 )
  19. ^ Anne Goebel: How liberated. Why the Viennese action artist Valie Export is just being discovered. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 26./27. January 2019, No. 22, p. 47.
  20. ↑ a b VALIE EXPORT . On: basis-wien.at
  21. ↑ a b VALIE EXPORT . On: wien.gv.at
  22. ^ Colette M. Schmidt: VALIE EXPORT: Portrait of a rebel. on: derstandard.at , May 18, 2015
  23. ↑ Life under the sign of radicalism: Smart Import for Linz orf.at, November 11, 2017, accessed November 12, 2017.
  24. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  25. ↑ http://www.valieexport.at/de/biografie/biografie/ Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Awards for the Arts 2014.
  26. ↑ Women's Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 for Valie Export. Käthe Leichter State Prize to political scientist Birgit Sauer at: derStandard.at , APA report from October 19, 2015, accessed on October 19, 2015.
  27. ↑ orf.at of August 13, 2020: State Cross of Merit for VALIE EXPORT ; accessed on August 13, 2020
  28. ^ Charim Gallery Vienna . On: basis-wien.at
  29. ↑ Review . On: charimgalerie.at
  30. ↑ s. Mechtild Widrich: Location and dislocation - The media performances of VALIE EXPORT. ( Excerpt from deepdyve.com )
  31. ↑ ZKM website
  32. ↑ Verbund art collection
personal data
SURNAME Valie Export
ALTERNATIVE NAMES VALIE EXPORT (artist name); Stockinger, Waltraud (real name); Lehner, Waltraud (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian media artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz