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Valie Export

Date of birth: 1940-05-17

Place of birth: Linz, Austria

Known for: Directing

Also known as:

Valie Export

Biography

Valie Export, born Waltraud Lehner, is an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.

Movie Credits

Home Movies 1971-81
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Home Movies 1971-81

1985-01-01

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde
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The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde

1984-11-14

In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "r

Tapp and Tastkino
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Tapp and Tastkino

1969-09-12

The film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it.

...Remote..... Remote....
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...Remote..... Remote....

1973-09-07

With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body i

Man & Woman & Animal
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Man & Woman & Animal

1973-09-07

Man & Woman & Animal shows a woman finding pleasure in herself, the whole film is a kind of assertio

Adjunct Dislocations
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Adjunct Dislocations

1973-09-07

“This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
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Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

2015-05-18

She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60

Birth of a Nation
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Birth of a Nation

1997-08-06

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe

Hernals
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Hernals

1967-12-31

Documentary and pseudo-documentary procedures were filmed simultaneously by two cameras from differe

The Total Family
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The Total Family

1981-10-16

Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty

ViennaFilm 1896-1976
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ViennaFilm 1896-1976

1977-01-01

This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The ai

The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption
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The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption

1969-01-01

The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introductio

Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone
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Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone

2010-10-05

The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang A

Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut
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Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut

1974-04-10

Space Seeing - Space Hearing uses sound and image editing, as well as split-screen effects, to creat

Space Seeing - Space Hearing
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Space Seeing - Space Hearing

1980-01-01

A work on the perception of space, where a video of a motionless figure in a room correlates four di

Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker
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Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

1981-12-31

Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian exp

Homo Meter II
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Homo Meter II

1976-05-02

Performance by Valie Export.

Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus
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Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

1989-03-31

A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the

No Mercy
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No Mercy

2026-02-27

From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934