Valie Export: Retrospective

January 27 - May 22, 2024

CO Berlin

Feminist criticism of social norms and role models role models: C/O Berlin is kicking off 2024 with a retrospective of the Austrian icon of feminist performance art Valie Export.

The exhibition presents the multifaceted work of one of the most important media and performance artists of the 20th century. Valie Export (*1940, Austria) is internationally regarded as a pioneering artist who challenges social norms and role models with her media-reflective practice and feminist criticism.

Valie Export: feminist performance art and experimental photography

From her early provocative Expanded Cinema actions to her symbolic performances and urban interventions, the exhibition takes us through her multifaceted artistic development. Export's intensive engagement with media such as video, drawing and installation is evident in various phases of her work, particularly in her experimental approach to photography, which is a particular focus of the exhibition. Her radical performances and her critical analysis of mass media highlight, among other things, the role of women and their social marginalization in a patriarchal society.

At a glance

• Ausstellung: Valie Export: Retrospective
• Location: C/O Berlin
• Start: 27 January 2024
• End: 22 May 2024
• Opening hours: Daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Admission Fee:
  12 Euro, reduced 6 Euro
• Tickets: Not available on Berlin.de (tickets are available on site)