provocateur Tag

From wearing genital-exposing pants, taking her name from a cigarette brand, and confronting strangers with the invitation to grope her breasts, we remember the novel artist’s most rebellious, provocative works Educated in a convent until the age of 14, the pioneering feminist artist VALIE EXPORT would spend her life removing the shackles of her religious upbringing. “My artworks are still a rebel against the Catholic faith,” she said in an interview in 2019. Born Waltraud Lehner in Linz, Austria in 1940, she was higher known by her nickname ‘Walie’. In 1967, she renounced her father’s and her ex-husband’s names to forge a recent identity – VALIE EXPORT. The one woman artist among the many...