Date of birth: 1940-05-17
Place of birth: Linz, Austria
Known for: Directing
Also known as:

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.

1985-01-01
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

1984-11-14
In her three-part series VALIE EXPORT takes a look at the themes of "staged space - staged time", "r

1969-09-12
The film is ‘shown’ in the dark. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it.

1973-09-07
With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body i
1973-09-07
Man & Woman & Animal shows a woman finding pleasure in herself, the whole film is a kind of assertio

1973-09-07
“This film deals with exploring one´s surroundings by means of the body, and the exploration of the

2015-05-18
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60

1997-08-06
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe

1967-12-31
Documentary and pseudo-documentary procedures were filmed simultaneously by two cameras from differe

1981-10-16
Baron Childerich III of Bartenbruch considers himself to be a descendant of the Merovingian dynasty

1977-01-01
This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The ai

1969-01-01
The subtitle of this merry performance is "An Action Text", indicating that the artist's introductio

2010-10-05
The starting point for this film is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang A
1974-04-10
Space Seeing - Space Hearing uses sound and image editing, as well as split-screen effects, to creat

1980-01-01
A work on the perception of space, where a video of a motionless figure in a room correlates four di
1981-12-31
Katja Raganelli’s sole excursion into the realm of avant-garde cinema was this focus on Austrian exp
1976-05-02
Performance by Valie Export.
1989-03-31
A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the

2026-02-27
From the starting point of her admiration for the pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova (1934