Wir trauern um die herausragende Künstlerin VALIE EXPORT, eine außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit und um einen besonderen Menschen.
- VALIE EXPORT Foundation
We mourn the loss of the outstanding artist VALIE EXPORT, an extraordinary individual and a truly special person.
What an Opening in Milan!
VALIE EXPORT & Ketty la Roca
still on view till 28. February 2026
Curated by Andrea Maurer and Alberto Salvadori in collaboration with Studio VALIE EXPORT and the KETTY LA ROCCA Estate
Thaddaeus Ropac Milan presents as its second exhibition an unprecedented dialogue between VALIE EXPORT and KETTY LA ROCCA, two of the most visionary feminist conceptual artists to emerge in Europe during the 1960s. Both artists used their bodies as tools to challenge language’s patriarchal function and expose the dichotomy between its role in public and private space. They recognised that in order to convey their ideas an expanded field of action was required and moved beyond the constraints of a single medium. Photography, video, sculpture and performance were treated by both artists as fluid and permeable.
+++ Genitalpanik im @womanmagazin +++
KUNST MIT VALIE EXPORT
Drei Frauen, ein Ziel: 2025 gründeten Kulturwissenschaftlerin/Künstlerin Sarah Held (l.) und Expertin für barrierefreie Mode Josefine Amir (r.) die „Allianz für reproduktive Selbstbestimmung“. Mit Valie Export (M.) holten sie sich jetzt eine starke künstlerische Stimme mit an Bord: Die Performancekünstlerin gestaltete T-Shirts mit der Aufschrift „Genitalpanik“ – als Verweis auf eine ihrer radikalsten Aktionen in den 60ern. Der Verkaufserlös soll Personen finanziell bei ihrer (reproduktiven) Selbstbestimmung unterstützen. Infos unter: repro-allianz.at, Bestellungen via [[email protected]] #wesupportus #latergram @valieexportfoundation@mobdeep_______@elfriedefinster
VALIE EXPORT
Studio visit, conversation, and guided tour of seminal works
Thanks to Nicole Toferer @nicoletoferer for this opportunity and her wonderful insights into the work, and thanks to Sigrid Guggenberger for her hospitality! @valieexportfoundation@schulefriedlkubelka_photo
Thanks to Valie Export for sharing her legendary works and thoughts! ❣️#valieexport
Thank you very much 🤍🫶🤍
Photos Hannah Imhoff @imhoff_hannah@anja.manfredi
VALIE EXPORT discusses her current exhibition ‘BODY SIGN’, a presentation that stages an unprecedented dialogue with KETTY LA ROCCA.
Two of the most visionary feminist conceptual artists to emerge in Europe during the 1960s, both artists placed their own bodies at the centre of their experiments across photography, video, performance and sculpture, to challenge language’s patriarchal function, and expose how it operates in public and private space.
‘In the 1960s, our attempts to cultivate a direct and uncontrolled language in art were based upon the idea that the dominant language was a form of manipulation. The plan was to circumvent these forms of social control. [...] This was the strength of the female body: to be able to express directly and without mediation’. — VALIE EXPORT
‘Women have no time for declarations: they have too much to do, and moreover they would then have to use language that is not their own, language that is both alien and hostile to them.’ — KETTY LA ROCCA
Closing Saturday 28 February 2026.
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Video by @artbeatsberlin
Die großartige VALIE EXPORT zu Gast im @stadtkinowien
Am Sonntag, 1. März zeigen wir NO MERCY und sprechen im Anschluss mit VALIE EXPORT im @stadtkinowien . Moderation: Brigitta Burger Utzer (Co-Gründerin @sixpackfilmvienna )
NO MERCY+ Gespräch
Sonntag, 1. März 17 Uhr
Kinostart AT 27.2. | DE 5.3.
„Der Film - das ist ja männlich“ Künstlerin VALIE EXPORT in NO MERCY!
Nicht verpassen: Am Sonntag, 1. März zeigen wir NO MERCY und sprechen im Anschluss mit VALIE EXPORT im @stadtkinowien . Moderation: Brigitta Burger Utzer (Co-Gründerin @sixpackfilmvienna )
Kinostart AT 27.2. | DE 5.3.
In MY ALBERTINA, VALIE EXPORT shares personal insights — and a few wishes for the future. Rest assured, we’re taking notes… very seriously. 💸😜
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𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯 with Valie Export @valieexportfoundation and Ketty La Rocca at @thaddaeusropac
For the first time, the archives of Valie Export and Ketty La Rocca are laid out together. Two of the most radical figures of conceptual and feminist art of the 60s and 70s. Both artists decided their bodies were no longer going to be passive objects but active subjects, with a language of their own.
Valie Export shows us how the city tries to bend a woman until she fits the architecture. She suggests that female identity is often molded by the social environment. Then there is Ketty La Rocca, looking for a way to speak, refusing to be forced into a language that doesn’t belong to women. She found it in non-verbal communication, a hand gesture or a silent plea.
They never met in person, but standing in the same room you can feel they were breathing the same air. Long before social media, they were already dissecting how the female image is constructed and how to claim autonomy upon it.
2. 𝘑 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘥𝘰𝘵 & 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 3 𝘥𝘰𝘵𝘴 by Ketty La Rocca, 1970.
3. 𝘌𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘨 by Valie Export, 1976/1980.
5. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢 by Ketty La Rocca, 1971.
7. 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 by Ketty La Rocca, 1967.
8. 𝘏𝘢𝘶𝘵-𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨 by Valie Export, 2024.
9. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢 by Ketty La Rocca, 1972.
10. 𝘊𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘻𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦 by Ketty La Rocca, 1971.