Valie Export

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.

Directed

1. Invisible Adversaries (1977) — Director
2. Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) — Director
3. ...Remote..... Remote.... (1973) — Director
4. The Practice of Love (1985) — Director
5. Syntagma (1983) — Director
6. Menschenfrauen (1980) — Director
7. Man & Woman & Animal (1973) — Director
8. Facing a Family (1971) — Director
9. Interrupted Line (1972) — Director
10. Visual Text: Finger Poem (1973) — Director
11. A Perfect Pair (1986) — Director
12. The Unspeakable Speaking (1992) — Director
13. Delta. A Piece (1977) — Director
14. The Voice as Performance, Act and Body (2007) — Director
15. The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption (1969) — Director
16. Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone (2010) — Director
17. Abstract Film No. 1 (1967) — Director
18. Adjunct Dislocations II (1978) — Director
19. Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut (1974) — Director
20. Self-Portrait with Head (1967) — Director
21. Adjunct Dislocations (1973) — Director
22. Lust (1986) — Director
23. I turn over the pictures of my voice in my head (2009) — Director
24. TAP and TOUCH CINEMA (1969) — Director
25. Body Tape (1970) — Director
26. Breath Text: Love Poem (1973) — Director
27. Hyperbulie (1973) — Director
28. The Duality of Nature (1986) — Director
29. Elfriede Jelinek. News from Home 18.8.88 (1988) — Director
30. Vaginan (1997) — Director
31. Body Politics (1974) — Director
32. Orgasmus (1967) — Director
33. Space Seeing - Space Hearing (1980) — Director
34. Asemie – The inability to express oneself through facial expressions (1973) — Director
35. Homo Meter II (1976) — Director
36. Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus (1989) — Director
37. Moving Pictures about Moving People (1973) — Director

Also appeared in

1. ...Remote..... Remote.... (1973)
2. Man & Woman & Animal (1973)
3. Valie Export - Icon and Rebel (2015) — Herself
4. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
5. aspekte (1965) — Self
6. Hernals (1967)
7. The Total Family (1981) — Sister Helga
8. ViennaFilm 1896-1976 (1977) — Self
9. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
10. The Armed Eye – VALIE EXPORT in a Dialogue with the Film Avant-Garde (1984)
11. TAP and TOUCH CINEMA (1969)
12. Adjunct Dislocations (1973)
13. The Sweet Number - An Experience of Consumption (1969) — Performer
14. Anagrammatical Composition with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (after W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone (2010) — Performer
15. Seeing-Space and Hearing-Space - Original length/linear cut (1974)
16. Space Seeing - Space Hearing (1980)
17. Valie Export: Portrait of a Filmmaker (1981)
18. Homo Meter II (1976) — Self
19. Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus (1989) — Self
20. No Mercy (2026) — Self