VALIE EXPORT shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024
Originally established by The Photographers' Gallery in 1996, this long-standing and influential annual prize identifies and rewards artists and their projects considered to have made the most significant contribution to photography over the previous 12 months. 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Deutsche Börse’s partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery. In 2016 the Prize was renamed the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Now in its 28th year, the Prize has become renowned as one of the most important awards for photographers, spotlighting outstanding, innovative and thought-provoking work.
VALIE EXPORT is nominated for the exhibition VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs at Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (25 February – 29 May 2023) and originated at the Albertina in Vienna.
VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940, Austria) became notorious from the late 1960s for her radical performances and critical examination of women’s role in society and the arts. Pointing out entrenched patriarchal structures in mass media image culture, her fearless artistic practice exposes the role representation plays in the construction of gender, sexuality and social norms.
Through photographs, filmic works, performances and installations, EXPORT deals with key issues including the body and the gaze, performance and the image, and subject and environment. For over 50 years, VALIE EXPORT has influenced generations of female artists, contorting, cutting and deforming her body to expose the profound social oppression of women – a theme that continues to resonate today.
An exhibition of work by the shortlisted artists VALIE EXPORT, Gauri Gill & Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye and Hrair Sarkissian will open in February at The Photographer's Gallery, London.
