Valie Export

Waltraud Lehner (17 May 1940 – 14 May 2026), known professionally as Valie Export (stylized in all caps), was an Austrian avant-garde artist. She was best known for expanded cinema and provocative public performances. Her work also included video installations, computer animations, photography, sculpture, and publications on contemporary art.

Infobox

Born

Waltraud Lehner (1940-05-17)17 May 1940 Linz, Reichsgau Oberdonau, Germany (now Austria)

Died

14 May 2026(2026-05-14) (aged 85) Vienna, Austria

Known for

Artist

Notable work

Cinema, photography, sculpture, computer animations

Movement

Avant-garde, performance art, contemporary art

Awards

Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

Website

valieexport

References

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture
https://doi.org/10.3402%2Fjac.v4i0.18149
Art in America
Encyclopedia of 20th century photography
The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopedia of German Cinema
https://books.google.com/books?id=z7gFT_Duq1cC&q=%22Waltraud+Hollinger%22+%22valie+export%22&pg=PA114
Faces in the crowd: picturing modern life from Manet to today
https://books.google.com/books?id=B45PAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Waltraud+Lehner%22+%22valie+export%22
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/arts/design/who-is-valie-export-just-look-and-please-touch.html
"Biography." VALIE EXPORT Center. https://www /en/prizewinners/2019_biography_ve Archived 2020-10-30 at the Wayback Mach
https://www.roswithahaftmann-stiftung.com/en/prizewinners/2019_biography_ve.htm
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger (1997). Out from the Shadows. Riverside: Ariadne Press. p. 229.
Indiana, Gary. "Valie Export" Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, BOMB Magazine Spring, 1982. Retrieved on Augus
http://bombsite.com/issues/3/articles/79
A Critical Cinema 3
"Tate "
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=-1&workid=90775&searchid=9353&roomid=5294&tabview=text&texttype=10
Bodytracks (archived 2013-02-12)
https://web.archive.org/web/20130212002347/http://bodytracks.org/2009/06/valie-export-aktionshosegenitalpanik-action-pants-genital-panic/
Valie Export/Fragments of the Imagination
Ocula Magazine
https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/valie-export-the-voice-belongs-to-me/
"VALIE EXPORT, Tapp- und Tastkino (Touch Cinema)"
https://web.archive.org/web/20130316000216/http://bodytracks.org/2009/06/valie-export-tapp-und-tastkino-touch-cinema/
Work Ethic
https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1158437662
"Valie Export | Pomeranz Collection"
https://web.archive.org/web/20190613233302/http://www.pomeranz-collection.com/?q=node%2F40#flou
Indiana, Gary. "Valie Export"; Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, BOMB Magazine. Spring 1982. Retrieved on Augu
http://bombsite.com/issues/3/articles/79
O'Reilly, Sally. "Valie Export." Art Monthly 280 (2004): 31–32. Art & Architecture Complete. Web. 12 Dec. 2016.
Harris, Jane. "Valie Export: Frau Export." Artext 70 (2000): 72–75. Art & Architecture Complete . 12 Dec. 2016.