Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

52 mins | Documentary | May 18, 2015

She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today. The life and work of the Austrian artist Valie Export exemplify a development in art history in which women sought and found new ways and means of expression. Her work provides a feminist counterpart to the Viennese actionism of her time, which has influenced numerous artists of subsequent generations. The innovative diversity of her artistic approaches makes Valie Export an icon of 20th century art history.

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel

52 mins | Documentary | May 18, 2015

Valie Export - Icon and Rebel
She is the godmother of performance art. With her shocking public actions she created in the late 60s images that have burned into the general visual memory until today. The life and work of the Austrian artist Valie Export exemplify a development in art history in which women sought and found new ways and means of expression. Her work provides a feminist counterpart to the Viennese actionism of her time, which has influenced numerous artists of subsequent generations. The innovative diversity of her artistic approaches makes Valie Export an icon of 20th century art history.
Producers wega film vienna, SRF
Original title Valie Export - Ikone und Rebellin
Directors Claudia Müller
Writers Claudia Müller, Elfriede Jelinek

Cast

Valie Export

as Herself

Marina Abramović

as Herself

Carolee Schneemann

as Herself

Kiki Smith

as Herself

Ingrid Wiener

as Herself

Oswald Wiener

as Himself

Elfriede Jelinek

as / Reader

Sami Loris

as Narrator