' var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); Kubelka is a celebrated artist in her adopted home of Vienna and across Europe. She explores radical questions about the conditioning of reality and the artistic representation of mental states. }, I decided to make two installations. found = true; } There are two parts of architecture in the series, or possibly even more. var expires = "expires="+d.toUTCString(); So I danced to free myself from being in alone the dark room, and I saw myself like a different person, like another young woman living with me who had none of the psychological instability, who was self-confident. “I wanted somebody. checkCookies(); // Hide the errors Her pose is confrontational – a lit cigarette between her lips, her breast visible from the neckline of her dress. Export and artist Maria Lassnig were the first women to represent Austria at the Venice Biennale, in 1980. In her hands she holds a machine gun, and her hair rises in a wild shock as if she’s been electrocuted. callback: function() { var $form = $(formElement); It makes sense to open up to an international gallery and to have representation that brings my work abroad. I would have had to go through various diplomatic, stages to obtain support from the cultural institution. In her performances, conceptual photographs, videos and experimental films, she explores how women are constructed by the dominant gaze, and she develops strategies of … } When I was performing my actions in public, on the streets, in the urban space, new and different forms of reception developed. } See our Privacy Policy for more information about cookies. + '' Pin-ups were born from the period after her education; one of deep unrest and sustained unhappiness, spent trying to work out her own needs and desires by exposing them on film. I worked with media, I worked with feminism, I worked with my body. if (!window.jQuery) loadJQuery(); Then 39 years old, she had made a name for herself through provocative films and performances in the 1960s and ‘70s, during the heydey of the transgressive interventions of the Actionists. But how does she feel, looking at them now? In the streets I provoked new explanations. //show automatically after delay 1854 Media is a multi-award-winning digital media organisation with a global community including millions of photographers, arts lovers and international brands. Valie Export's postmodern feminist film, Invisible Adversaries (1976), will be discussed in detail with reference to the use… //exdays*24*60*60 One of the more dominant photos of the exhibition is Smart/Export, a self-portrait of Export, presenting to the camera the pack of the cigarettes that became her name. } // Show signup failure error and hide other errors + '<\/div>' return ctx.regex.email.test( $email.val() ); Photo by Ben Westoby, courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. var $modal = $('#ouibounce-modal'); Subscribe to our newsletter to get the breaking news, eye-opening interviews, and incisive critical takes that drive the conversation forward. + 'Please enter a valid email address' Valie Export One cannot imagine that coming from the mouth of Valie Export, whom Kubelka shares the walls of Saltoun’s Viennese Season: Feminism. //if there are cookies indicating that we shouldn't show the signup bar, then the modal won't have been added to the page It’s just an image. It might be an inherent thinking structure in these mostly male juries that they consider men as better at those historic categories. while (c.charAt(0)==' ') { })(); artnet and our partners use cookies to provide features on our sites and applications to improve your online experience, including for analysis of site usage, traffic measurement, and for advertising and content management. In a climate that could view sex as a surrender to patriarchy, these artists used it in ways that still have the capacity to fascinate. They‘re political and rejectionist, indebted to – and part of – the Actionist ethos of fellow Viennese artists like Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Hermann Nitsch. addCss('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css'); And so I decided to make my own production. Why Are There So Many Great Women Video Artists? var i = cookieNames.length, It played on a television perched near a pair of splayed female legs, from whose crotch erupted a red neon strip. She established herself with the 1968 performance piece Touch Cinema. But they’re also painfully personal, communicative of something that moves beyond intellectual statement. setTimeout(function() { We had a show in Paris, in Salzburg, and now in London. Feminism: Art and Creativity, this exhibition “introduced the feminist artist as curator and as contemporary art historian.” o[this.name] = this.value || ''; // FUNCTIONS Dec 20th, 2017. + 'Signup failed. Valie Export is an Austrian artist who pioneered feminist discourse. which saw her enter an art-house movie theater in Munich wearing crotchless pants and defiantly stare down the audience. // Append ouibounce to page See all articles. It’s an ongoing question, of course, especially if you go back in the history of painting and sculpture. Studio 1854 }, Although it can also be shown, alongside other works. I didn’t have a telephone. while (i--) { prefix = 'artnet_newsletter_'; She grew up in East Berlin before studying industrial photography at the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute in Vienna from 1965 to 1969. + '