Valie Export and the Saturday work series perspective
Published on 06/27/2026 at 23:06 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Valie Export remains one of the sharpest reference points in performance and media art. Her work turned the body into a critical instrument and the street into a site of confrontation.
Performance as public test
Export's early interventions still define the discussion around feminist art and the politics of looking. Tapp und Tastkino and Aktionshose: Genitalpanik made spectatorship part of the work itself.
Saturday's retrospective lens
On a Saturday module, her practice reads as a long arc of image-making, action and institutional critique. That arc connects performance, photography, film and installation without reducing her output to one format.
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The work core
Export works across performance, photography, film and text, which gives her practice a clear conceptual spine. The key works are often cited through action titles rather than single object forms.
Where she stands now
Valie Export currently has no announced date in the 30-day window.
Key facts on Valie Export
- Artist: Valie Export
- Medium / Genre: Performance, photography, film, installation
- Born: 1940, Linz, Austria
- Place(s) of practice: Vienna, Austria
- Active since: 1960s
- Key work groups: Tapp und Tastkino, Aktionshose: Genitalpanik, Body Configurations, Facing a Family
- Current/last exhibition: Valie Export, venue and dates not verified in live search
- Major collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris
- Awards: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art; Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
- Next date: currently no announced date in the 30-day window
Frequently asked questions about Valie Export
Why is Valie Export important for performance art?
She expanded performance into a critique of gender roles, spectatorship and public space. Her best-known actions from the late 1960s remain foundational in feminist media art.
Which Valie Export works are most cited?
Tapp und Tastkino, Aktionshose: Genitalpanik and Body Configurations are among the most frequently referenced works. They show how she used action, image and bodily presence as one language.
Where is Valie Export currently on view?
On the live-checked sources available here, no current exhibition date was verified. Her work continues to circulate through museum collections and retrospective histories.
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