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Brilliant Things to Do This June VALIE EXPORT in Vienna
2 June 2023
VALIE EXPORT: Retrospective at Albertina, Vienna: June 23 – October 1, 2023
Transgressive Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT is the subject of a major retrospective set to land at Vienna’s Albertina Museum this June. From walking the streets with a man on a leash (The Portfolio of Dogness, 1968) to wearing a box over her nude torso and inviting passersby to touch her bare breasts through two cut holes (Grope and Touch Cinema, 1968), EXPORT has long called into question the way bodies – and genders – are represented and pigeon-holed in visual culture. Traversing photography, film and installation, the show will explore the interrelation between “subject and space, performance and visual image, body and gaze, and femininity and representation” across EXPORT's decade-spanning feminist and sociopolitical enquiries.
Transgressive Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT is the subject of a major retrospective set to land at Vienna’s Albertina Museum this June. From walking the streets with a man on a leash (The Portfolio of Dogness, 1968) to wearing a box over her nude torso and inviting passersby to touch her bare breasts through two cut holes (Grope and Touch Cinema, 1968), EXPORT has long called into question the way bodies – and genders – are represented and pigeon-holed in visual culture. Traversing photography, film and installation, the show will explore the interrelation between “subject and space, performance and visual image, body and gaze, and femininity and representation” across EXPORT's decade-spanning feminist and sociopolitical enquiries.
