Valie export biography
Valie export biography
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Valie Export
Austrian media artist
Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940)[1][2] is an avant-garde Austrian artist.[3] She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work.[4] Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer animations, photography, sculpture and publications covering contemporary art.[5]
Early life
Valie Export was born Waltraud Lehner in Linz, Austria and was raised in Linz by a single mother of three.[6][7][8] Export studied painting, drawing, and design at the National School for Textile Industry in Vienna.[9]
Career
1960s and 1970s
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Austrian feminism was forced to address the fact that by the 1970s there was still a generation of Austrians whose attitudes towards women were based on Nazi ideology.[10] They also had to confront the guilt of their p