Collection: VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT (born 1940, Linz, Austria) is an Austrian artist and one of the central figures of postwar feminist performance, film, photography, and media art. In 1967 she adopted the name VALIE EXPORT as an artistic concept and logo — always written in capital letters — as an act of self-naming and self-branding that was itself a feminist gesture. Working across performance, expanded cinema, video, photography, installation, and sculpture, EXPORT used the body as a site of language, control, exposure, and resistance, positioning herself alongside Joseph Beuys and Allan Kaprow as one of the earliest performance artists.

Her practice engaged the politics of the female body, the male gaze, urban space, and the structures of media and representation with a directness and formal rigour that anticipated many directions in feminist and body art. Key works include Tapp und Tastkino (Touch Cinema, 1968), Aktionshose: Genitalpanik (Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969), and the Body Configurations series (1972–1982). She represented Austria at the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980 alongside Maria Lassnig. EXPORT has been awarded the Roswitha Haftmann Prize and has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, and institutions internationally.

This collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to EXPORT's practice and institutional presentations.