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Valie Export

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Valie Export

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Born: May 17, 1940
Died: May 14, 2026
From: Linz, Austria

Biography

Valie Export (1940-2026), born Waltraud Lehner, was an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.

Known for

Invisible Adversaries

Seven Women, Seven Sins

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

The Practice of Love

Menschenfrauen

Man & Woman & Animal

Facing a Family

Filmography

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2026

Acting (Self)

2015

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

Acting (Herself)

2010

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

Acting (Performer) Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

2009

I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head

Directing (Director)

2007

The Voice as Performance, Act and Body

Directing (Director)

Seven Easy Pieces

Writing (Writer)

1997

Birth of a Nation

Acting (Self)

Directing (Director)

1992

The Unspeakable Speaking

Directing (Director)

1989

Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus

Acting (Self) Directing (Director)

1988

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

1986

Seven Women, Seven Sins

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

The Duality of Nature

Directing (Director)

1985

The Practice of Love

Directing (Director) Writing (Screenplay)

Home Movies 1971-81

1984

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

Acting Writing (Writer)

1983

Directing (Director) Production (Producer)

1981

Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker

The Total Family

Acting (Sister Helga)

1980

Menschenfrauen

Directing (Director) Production (Producer)

Space Seeing - Space Hearing

Acting Directing (Director) Writing (Writer) Production (Producer)

1978

Adjunct Dislocations II

Directing (Director)

1977

Invisible Adversaries

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer) Production (Producer) Editing (Editor)

Delta. A Piece

Directing (Director)

ViennaFilm 1896-1976

Acting (Self)

1976

Homo Meter II

Acting (Self) Directing (Director)

1974

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

Acting Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

Body Politics

Directing (Director)

1973

Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions

Directing (Director) Production (Producer)

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

Acting Directing (Director)

Adjunct Dislocations

Acting Directing (Director)