Valie Export

Austrian-born Valie Export is an artist, independent filmmaker, and theoretician who has created works in a variety of media, including documentary and narrative film, video, performance, photography, installation, sculpture, and drawing. Regarded as one of Europe’s most influential feminist filmmakers, and a central figure in the Austrian conceptual and avant-garde film movements since the 1960s, Export is renowned for her early risqué guerrilla performances.