VALIE EXPORT
Austrian Film Museum, Vienna and ICA, London
May 2025
In May 2025, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna and Spector Books will publish the first in-depth overview of the film and video work of artist VALIE EXPORT with the title How to Do Things with 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. How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT will be published in both German and English editions in May 2025. It will be launched with events and screenings in London at ICA as part of the Open Documentary Festival and in Vienna on the occasion of the artist’s 85th birthday (Austrian Film Museum, Belvedere 21, and sixpackfilm).
With contributions by Erika Balsom, Monika Bernold, Christa Blümlinger, Sabeth Buchmann, Silvia Eiblmayr, VALIE EXPORT, Sabine Folie, The Golden Pixel Cooperative, Ulrike Hanstein, Caroline Heider, Gabu Heindl und Drehli Robnik, Elfriede Jelinek, Gertrud Koch, Ira Konyukhova, Sophie Lewis, Vrääth Öhner, Sylvia Sadzinski, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Jul Marian Schadauer, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Inna Shevchenko, Elisabeth Streit und Tom Waibel, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Renée Winter, David Wittinghofer, and the editors.
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.
