VALIE EXPORT
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York / Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
November 2024 – March 2025
In 2024, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna will publish the first in-depth overview of the film and video work of artist VALIE EXPORT. Acclaimed internationally for her performance and photographic work, and her advocacy for equality and feminism, VALIE EXPORT’s film work has received less attention. Over the span of her 50 year-career, she has explored and challenged the medium of film in many different ways, having produced fiction films, avant-garde films, short videos and expansive video installations.
The publication will include essays from film scholars, art historians, artists and art collectives reflecting on the significance of EXPORT’s legacy, while the artist herself will create a new work exclusively for the book. Film and Video Works (*working title) will be published in both German and English editions in late 2024 by Spector Books, Leipzig, to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Austrian Film Museum. It will be launched with events and screenings in Vienna (Austrian Film Museum), New York (The Museum of Modern Art) and a number of other international institutions to present her film work to a broad international audience.
VALIE EXPORT (born 1940 in Linz) has produced one of the most significant bodies of Feminist art in the post-war period, as a pioneer within the fields of photography, video and installation art. Her groundbreaking performances during the 1960s and 1970s introduced a new form of radical, embodied feminism to Europe, examining the politics of the body in relation to its environment, culture and society. Her recent solo and group exhibitions include Rencontres d'Arles, France; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Somerset House, London, among others.
This is the artist's second collaboration with Phileas, following her participation at the 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India, in 2018.
