VALIE EXPORT

Linz, Austria, 1940 -

Biographyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valie_Export

Media artist, performance artist, filmmaker, born 1940 in Linz/A, based in Vienna and abroad

1940 born in Linz

VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, laser installations, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism.

VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers on conceptual media art, performance and film. Her works are in international collections like Centro Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, Reine Sophia, Madrid, MOMA, New York, MOCA, Los Angeles ect.

Since 1968 participation in international exhibitions, for example: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Venice Biennale; documenta, Kassel; MoCA, Los Angeles; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Vienna; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles; Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Metropolitan Museum, New York; ars electronica, Linz/Austria.
Screenings at international film and video festivals, for example London Underground Film Festiva; London International Film Festival; Filmex, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival as well as film festivals in Cannes, Montréal, Vancouver, San Francisco, Locarno, Hongkong, Sidney, New York, etc.

2008 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris present VALIE EXPORT´s works from the collection in a solo exhibition room

VALIE EXPORT is nominated as commissioner for the Austrian pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia. 53rd International Art Exhibition (together with Silvia Eiblmayr)

VALIE EXPORT is member of the university advice, University of Art Linz (2003 – 2008 chairman)

CUC Charim Ungar Contemporary Berlin opens with the solo exhibition "VALIE EXPORT"

In 2007 VALIE EXPORT participates at Biennale di Venezia, 52. International Exhibition. think with the senses, feel with the mind. Art in present tense, corderie dell’ arsenale, curator Robert Storr
The presentation named DER SCHMERZ DER UTOPIE/THE PAIN OF UTOPIA. There she shows the DVD Installation „glottis“ 2007, the filminstallation „...remote...remote...passagen“ 1973/2007 and the performance „the voice as performance, act and body“ on the 8th of june at corderie dell’ arsenale. The video documentation from the performance was shown during the 8th of June to 21th of November.

Besides the artist took part at documenta 12

The same year she developed her work "Kalaschnikow", which was shown in a single show at the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts. The work consists of 103 Kalaschnikow in a oilbowl and two videos with chinese executions and assassinations in Iraq.

Since 2005 member of the supervisory board Linz – Europe’s Cultural Capital 2009

2005 “VALIE EXPORT. Workshow”, The Essl Collection, Kosterneuburg/Austria.

Exhibition “VALIE EXPORT: Series”, Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Atelier Augarten, Vienna. Curator Thomas Trummer

“(Re)presenting Performance”, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970”, Tate Modern, London. Curator: Donna De Salvo

“Die Macht der Sprache/The Power of Language”, exhibition together with Elfriede Jelinek, Olga Neuwirth, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

2004 the artist participates in the group exhibition “The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982”, at Fotomuseum Winterthur, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Exhibition “VALIE EXPORT Un die en 1967” at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla.

“VALIE EXPORT Rétrospective E la Nave Va”, MAMCO Genève.

“VALIE EXPORT” solo exhibition at Camden Arts Center, London, Sigmund Freud Museum, London

Film retrospective at the National Film Theatre, London.

Video-Laser-Speech-Text installation “Was für eine seltsame Maschine/What a bizarre machine”, shown at the exhibition “phonorama. Eine Kulturgeschichte der STIMME als Medium/ A Cultural History of the Voice as a Medium” ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe. Curator: Brigitte Felderer.

At a retrospecitve, EXPORT presents her Expanded Cinema „up + down + on + off “ in the realm of „EXPANDED CINEMA Film“ as a spectacle, event and performance at Phoenix Hall, Dortmund/Germany.

2003 Exhibition “VALIE EXPORT Mediale Anagramme” at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, selected and organised by RealismuStudio, NGBK Berlin

Exhibition “VALIE EXPORT” in the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris. Curator: Caroline Bourgeois together with Juan Vicente Aliaga

Since 2003 head of the University Council of the University for the Arts, Linz

Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Her workcycle "Wellen" arise which she produce until 2004

2002 some of EXPORT’s works in a soloshow are presented in a solo exhibition at Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, USA

A 6 -series video installation is developed “Die Macht der Sprache/The Power of Language”, shown in a solo exhibition “Pol’yp*to”ton”, at CHARIM Gallery, Vienna

2001 „Ob/De+Con(Struction)“, soloshow, at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.

2000 EXPORT is awarded the Oskar-Kokoschka-Prize Vienna.
Due to political reasons, EXPORT refuses to have the prize handed over by the conservative Austrian government. The prize is consiged by the head of the independent jury. The prize is dedicated by VALIE EXPORT to the artistic project “Mediale Analyse faschistoider Politik. Politische Manipulation und manipulative Konstruktion von Lüge und Wahrheit in Bild- und Informationstechnologien /Media Analysis of Fashistoid Politics. Political Manipulation and Manipulative Construction of Lies and Truth in the Image- and Information-Based Technologies ”. The project is presented together with Peter H. Karall, Bettina Birxa, Franz Schandl, Bady Mink, Silvia Eiblmar at the Gallery im Taxispalais, Innsbruck and accompanied by a brochure.

“Kubus EXPORT – The Transparent Space” is installed under the Gürtelbrücke 48 in Vienna.

“Ob/De+Con(Struction)”, EXPORT’s first comprehensive show of her artistic work in the U.S, at Goldy Paley Gallery, Philadelphia, curator director Elsa Longhauser

1998/99 permanent installation „Landschaftmesser/Landscape Knive“, a memorial sculpture in public space at Allensteig/Austria

1998 EXPORT and the design team Syntax/Cologne are awarded the CD-ROM prize of the Videonale Bonn for “Bilder der Berührungen”

1997 Monika Faber is curator of the retrospective “VALIE EXPORT Split: Reality” at the Museum of Modern Art, Stiftung Ludwig, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna

1996 Generali Foundation Vienna presents her filmic work in the exhibhition “White Cube/Black Box” (together with Gordon Matta-Clark)

1995-2005 Professor for Mulitmedia and Performance at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne

1995 “Violation – Schnitte – Schnitte in die weibliche Sexualität und Psyche/Cuts in the female sexuality and psyche", a video/photography-text-speech-sound installation, (work in progress). The work deals with the female mutilation

1994-95 EXPORT is vice president at the University of the Arts, Berlin

1994 „Anagramatic Body“, a text-laser installation and „Der Schrei/The Scream“, a laser-text-video installation are both laser projections of text chronicles written by Tibetan, Buddhist nuns and monks which are projected on to black waste oil in a metal pool and the laryngoscope recording of the artist’s glottis and glossolalic speech is visualised by means of an oscillograph working in the audio range. The element of the glossolalic speech is taken from the video essay „Das Unsagbare Sagen“, made in co-operation with Ingrid Wiener and Oswald Wiener

1992 Retrospective of EXPORT’s artistic work at Upper Austrian Gallery/Museum of Linz

Film and video retrospective at the Moviemento in Linz

1991/97/99/2003 International Summer Academy Salzburg

1991-95 Professor for Design, Media/Visual Communication at the University of Arts, Berlin

1991 concept and organisation of the international symposium „Entfesselung der Geschlechter. Eine neue Lektüre zur Geschlechteridentität/Un-Leashing the Sexes – A New Reading On the Gender Identity“ for the Vienna Festival Weeks

1988 Festival Award, San Francisco International Video Festival

Since 1989 digital photographic works, computer-generated photography, for example „Stand up. Sit down“

1987 Retrospective of all her avant-garde and feature films at the National Film Theatre, London

1985 EXPORT’s feature film „The Practice of Love“ is nominated for a Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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