{"title":"VALIE EXPORT","description":"\u003cp\u003eVALIE 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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 \u003cem\u003eTapp und Tastkino\u003c\/em\u003e (Touch Cinema, 1968), \u003cem\u003eAktionshose: Genitalpanik\u003c\/em\u003e (Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969), and the \u003cem\u003eBody Configurations\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to EXPORT's practice and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"export-1980-venice-biennale-ropac-inv-2019","title":"VALIE EXPORT — The 1980 Venice Biennale Works — Private View Card \u0026 Press Release, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrivate view invitation card and folded press release\u003cbr\u003eGalerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, 2019\u003cbr\u003eInvitation: 15 × 21 cm\u003cbr\u003ePress release: 15 × 21 cm folded; 30 × 21 cm unfolded\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card and folded paper\u003cbr\u003e29 November 2019 – 25 January 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrivate view invitation card and folded press release issued for VALIE EXPORT’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London. The exhibition restaged works from her 1980 Austrian Pavilion presentation at the 39th Venice Biennale, originally shown alongside Maria Lassnig.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe invitation reproduces \u003cem\u003eEinkreisung \/ Encirclement\u003c\/em\u003e, 1976\/1980 — EXPORT’s body positioned against the urban pavement, enclosed by a painted red line. The press release includes exhibition text, artist biography, installation details, and images connected to the Venice Biennale works, including the \u003cem\u003eBody Configurations\u003c\/em\u003e series and the \u003cem\u003eGeburtenmadonna\u003c\/em\u003e sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVALIE EXPORT was one of the central figures of postwar feminist performance, film, photography, and media art. Her work used the body as a site of language, control, exposure, and resistance — positioning her alongside Joseph Beuys and Allan Kaprow as one of the earliest performance artists. The 2019 Ropac exhibition marked a key moment in the institutional reactivation of the 1980 Venice Biennale works after decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Light handling wear, minor surface marks, faint creasing, and softening to edges and corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included. Packed flat with archival protection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53702053331282,"sku":"EXPORT-ROPAC-INV-2019","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Vaile_Export._Postcard_invite_1980_Venice_Biennale_works._2019_front.jpg?v=1781076941"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/valie-export.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}