VALIE EXPORT FAMA ET INFAMIA

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1 VALIE EXPORT FAMA ET INFAMIA Die Infamie der Namenlosen [The Infamy of the Nameless] Special Exhibition 22 th March to 30 th JunE 2018 daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Picture: VALIE EXPORT Heads Aphärese, 2002 (Detail) Courtesy VALIE EXPORT KHM-Museusverband In 2018, Ambras Castle, Innsbruck focuses on outstanding women and dedicates the special exhibition in spring to one of Austria s most important contemporary female artists: VALIE EXPORT. Feminist artwork from the 1960s and 70s is experiencing a phase of renewed international relevance, and VALIE EXPORT s media and performance art counts among the most radical European positions of that time. This exhibition marks the first time the artist has exhibited alongside a historical collection. Her works engage in conversation with Archduke Ferdinand II s ( ) Ambras collection, offering another view of its objects and exhibition history, wherein the FAMA the history of illustrious and victorious personages encounter the INFAMIA history s insubordinate, marginalized, and oppressed individuals. This furthermore creates a stimulating and surprising convergence of the male principal of dominance with the female principal of submission in gestures of empathetic humanity and rebellion, set in the present and in the past. The special exhibition, curated by Sabine Folie, takes place as part of the Innsbrucker Osterfrühling and is accompanied by a bilingual (German/English) catalogue.

2 VALIE EXPORT Born as Waltraud Lehner in 1940 in Linz, Austria, VALIE EXPORT attended the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts and graduated from the Vienna HBLVA trade school for the textile industry in Since 1967 she has assumed the name VALIE EXPORT as a brand and artistic concept. Her career took off in the late 1960s when her sensational public actions, which were at home in performance and media art, and which the artist developed from a feminist perspective, began drawing attention to her work. Her participation in the documenta 6 in Kassel (1977) and the Venice Biennale (1980) helped thrust her art into the international spotlight. Next to her prolific international exhibition activity, the co-founder of the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative has taken part in numerous film and video festivals around the world. Her curatorial practice began in the 1970s with a focus on feminism and media art. Some of her groundbreaking exhibitions include MAGNA (1975) and Kunst mit Eigensinn (1985). VALIE EXPORT has held professorships at numerous universities: the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee ( ), the Berlin University of the Arts ( ), and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne ( ). The 2015 acquisition of EXPORT s archive by the city of Linz led to the inauguration of the VALIE EXPORT Center, which opened in November 2017 as a research center for performance and media art. Sabine FOlie curator Picture: valie export Violetta Wakolbinger, 2017 Sabine Folie (born 1962 in Bozen) is an art historian and curator, living in Vienna. She is director of the VALIE EXPORT Center Linz. Research Center for Performance- and Media Art and Guest Professor for Cultural History of Modernism at the Bauhaus- University Weimar. From 2008 until 2014 she was director of the Generali Foundation, Vienna and from 1998 until 2008 Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Wien. She has been curating more than 60 monographic exhibitions and thematic exhibitions, a.o. about Marcel Broodthaers, Eva Hesse, Dorothy Iannone/Lee Lozano, Ree Morton, Ana Torfs, Danica Dakic, Morgan Fisher, Ulrike Grossarth, Willem Oorebeek and about topics such as Un Coup de Dés. Bild gewordene Schrift. ABC einer nachdenklichen Sprache; Die Moderne als Ruine. Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart; unexhibit; VALIE EXPORT. The Archive as a Site of Artistic Research (LENTOS, Linz) In preparation: Kontext-Variationen: Forschung, Archiv, Werk bei VALIE EXPORT (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein) and a retrospective on Ernst Caramelle at mumok, Vienna.

3 Press Pictures The picture files provided by us must not be manipulated, cropped or used for any other purposes. Our press photographs may be published only with complete references to each picture, including a copyright notice. Illustration: VALIE EXPORT in the Chamber of Art and Wonders of Ambras Castle, Innsbruck: The exhibition is shown in the Small Armory and the Antiquarium. Illustrations: VALIE EXPORT: Syntagma, mm film, 18 min., colour (Transfer to DVD 2004) Script, director: VALIE EXPORT; Cinematography: Fritz Köberl; Sound: Hans Hartel Actress: Irmelin Hoffer Producer: VALIE EXPORT Filmproduktion / Vienna Premiere: Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, 1984 Courtesy VALIE EXPORT (Distribution: sixpackfilm) VALIE EXPORT s Syntagma and the paintings of the Archduchess Margarita Teresa ( ) and the Infanta Maria Anna ( ) are reflected in Venetian convex mirrors from the 2 nd half of the 16 th century.

4 Illustrations: VALIE EXPORT: Heads-Apheresis, 2002 Object installation: 11 heads of wax, 19 heads of aluminium, 9 heads of bronze; and VALIE EXPORT: Dead people don`t scream I/II 2007 DVD, Loop (58 sec.), b/w Photographic material from Death Scenes. A Detective s Scrapbook (Venice, CA, 1996) Scans, digital editing: Xaver Challupner, montage: VALIE EXPORT. Courtesy VALIE EXPORT In the Antiquarium, VALIE EXPORT shows the infamies - history s insubordinate, marginalized, and oppressed individuals - in contrast to the Ambras busts made of plaster, marble, clay and bronze of Roman emperors and members of the Habsburg dynasty - the illustrious and victorious personages.

5 Illustrations: VALIE EXPORT: Heads-Apheresis, 2002 Object installation: 11 heads of wax, 19 heads of aluminium, 9 heads of bronze; Courtesy VALIE EXPORT

6 Illustration: VALIE EXPORT: Needle, 1996/97 Object installation: 3 needles, 3 electric motors. Total length of the needles: approx. 300 cm. Property of the artist. The feminine is subtly confronted with the martial world of Ambras Polearms and the Sketch for the cenotaph of Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck, creating a physically and emotionally extremely painful constellation. Illustration: VALIE EXPORT: PHALANX, 1973 Pencil on paper, 52 x 78,7 cm, with frame: 58 x 74,5 cm (Facsimile) Property of the artist Female hands next to martial weapons and torture tools from Ambras Castle and VALIE EXPORT s booming installation Needle. Illustration: VALIE EXPORT: Syntagma, mm film, 18 min., colour (Transfer to DVD 2004). Script, director: VALIE EXPORT; Cinematography: Fritz Köberl; Sound: Hans Hartel; Actress: Irmelin Hoffer In the film, the artist is concerned with women s bodies as a focal point for questions of origin, the subject-object relationships, political resistance and sexuality, which is given a new aspect here alongside the portrait of Infanta Maria Anna: The girl was a pawn in the Habsburg marriage policy between Johann Karl of Habsburg ( ) at first, then Ferdinand III ( ), but also for Charles I of England ( ).

7 Illustration: In the Bathing Chambers of Philippine Welser: VALIE EXPORT: Invisible adversaries, mm film, 112 min., colour (Transfer to DVD 2007). Director: VALIE EXPORT, with the collaboration of Peter Weibel; Script: Peter Weibel, with the collaboration of VALIE EXPORT; Idea: VALIE EXPORT (1972); Cinematography: Wolfgang Simon; Editor: Herbert Baumgartner, VALIE EXPORT; Photography: Helga Borsodi, Monika Hubmann, Wolfgang Soos, Karl Heinz Koller, Hermann Hendrich, Wilhelm Krejci, Eric Timmermann, VALIE EXPORT; Sound: Klaus Hundspichler, Sound synchronization: Mel Kutbay, Sound collage: Hans Hartl, Rainer Kalchauser; Actors and Actresses: Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Dr. Josef Plavec, Monika Helfer-Friedrich a. o.; Produced by: VALIE EXPORT/Vienna Festival premiere: International film festival Berlin, International Forum of Young Film, Courtesy VALIE EXPORT (Distribution: sixpackfilm) Illustrations: The istallation in the dressing room of the Bathing Chambers of Philippine Welser: VALIE EXPORT: Compulsive obsessions, 1972/1977/2010 Print, wood, glass, ice skates. Object installation, total dimensions: approx. 125 x 220 x 250 cm. 2 photo prints: each 125 x 170 x 2 cm. Door: 220 x 60 cm. 4 wooden ledges, each 60 x 4,5 x 2 cm. 2 wooden ledges, each 66 x 4,5 x 2 cm. 2 wooden ledges, each 156 x 4,5 x 2 cm. Oil can: 42 x 20,5 x 34 cm. Ice skates, glass shards. Mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien // Vienna, Donation of the Society of the Friends of Fine Arts Vienna Inv. P 281/0

8 Events Entrance Fees inquiries ABBILDUNG: VALIE EXPORT s installation in the Antiquarium of the Ambras Chamber of Art and Wonders KHM-MuseuMsverband Guided tours of the special exhibition every Friday at 3.30 pm (in German). Please note the special exhibition events. Adults 10 Concessions 7 Children and teens under 19 free Family Ticket 18 Annual Ticket 44 Annual Ticket U25 25 Group Ticket p.p. (groups of 10, or over) 7 Dr. Armin Berger Press and Communications Ambras Castle, Schlossstrasse 20, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria T , armin.berger@schlossambras-innsbruck.at