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VIENNESE SEASON: Feminism: VALIE EXPORT & Friedl Kubelka

Past exhibition
10 April - 23 May 2014 London
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Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Ups, 1971
Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Ups, 1971

The second in the gallery's two-part series of Viennese art 'Feminisim', this exhibition presents the work of VALIE EXPORT and Friedl KUBELKA, two artists whose work operated at the centre of debates surrounding the subjects of gender, the body and politics. The photographic images and films that result from their practices are presented through the lens of a personal reflective awareness of the body.

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Works
  • Valie EXPORT, VALIE EXPORT - SMART EXPORT. Selbstportrait mit Zigarette [VALIE EXPORT - SMART EXPORT. Self-portrait with cigarette kit], 1968/1970
    Valie EXPORT, VALIE EXPORT - SMART EXPORT. Selbstportrait mit Zigarette [VALIE EXPORT - SMART EXPORT. Self-portrait with cigarette kit], 1968/1970
  • Valie EXPORT, Drei Figurationszeichen Drei Körperkonfigurationen (Three Characters Figuration Three Bodies Configuration), 1972/1976
    Valie EXPORT, Drei Figurationszeichen Drei Körperkonfigurationen (Three Characters Figuration Three Bodies Configuration), 1972/1976
  • Valie EXPORT, Genitalpanik, 1969
    Valie EXPORT, Genitalpanik, 1969
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, c 1972
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, c 1972
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Untitled (Franz West contact sheet), c 1980
    Friedl KUBELKA, Untitled (Franz West contact sheet), c 1980
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Self-portrait with Peter Kubelka, 1977/78
    Friedl KUBELKA, Self-portrait with Peter Kubelka, 1977/78
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Helgart, 1978
    Friedl KUBELKA, Helgart, 1978
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Untitled (Pin-up), 1972
    Friedl KUBELKA, Untitled (Pin-up), 1972
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Untitled (Pin-up), 1973
    Friedl KUBELKA, Untitled (Pin-up), 1973
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-up, 1971
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Reise (Voyage), 1974
    Friedl KUBELKA, Reise (Voyage), 1974
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Cyril Kubelka, 1977
    Friedl KUBELKA, Cyril Kubelka, 1977
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Helgart, 1978
    Friedl KUBELKA, Helgart, 1978
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Self-portrait (Franz West bikini), c 1978
    Friedl KUBELKA, Self-portrait (Franz West bikini), c 1978
  • Friedl KUBELKA, 6. Jahresportrait 1997/98, 1997/98
    Friedl KUBELKA, 6. Jahresportrait 1997/98, 1997/98
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
    Friedl KUBELKA, Pin-Up, 1973-74
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Jahresportrait 6 and 7, 1997-2003
    Friedl KUBELKA, Jahresportrait 6 and 7, 1997-2003
  • Friedl KUBELKA, Jahresportrait, 1977-2002
    Friedl KUBELKA, Jahresportrait, 1977-2002
Installation Views
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  • Friedl KUBELKA Pin-ups, 1971

    Friedl KUBELKA
    Pin-ups, 1971

Press release

The second in the gallery's two-part series of Viennese art 'Feminisim', this exhibition presents the work of VALIE EXPORT and Friedl KUBELKA, two artists whose work operated at the centre of debates surrounding the subjects of gender, the body and politics. The photographic images and films that result from their practices are presented through the lens of a personal reflective awareness of the body.

 

Seminal works to be exhibited include Smart / Export II, VALIE EXPORT's iconic self-portrait of 1967/70 in which she holds a package of rebranded cigarettes. Born Waltraud Lehner, she created her artists' name based on Smart Export, this brand of cigarettes she was smoking at the time.

 

Kubelka will present her celebrated Jahreportraits (Year Portraits): a project begun in 1972, in which she photographed herself daily over the period of a year and has repeated the process every five years since. Key examples of this series will be exhibited alongside her Pin-ups, 1971-1974. These intimate staged self-portraits, taken by Kubelka in Paris and Vienna, directly confront the viewer in their adoption of the 'erotic'.

 

EXPORT and Kubelka were both included in WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (MoCA, LA, 2007) and elles@centrepompidou, (Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 2009). This is the first time they will be exhibited alongside one another in the UK.

 

VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940, Linz, Austria)

EXPORT's iconic work Touch Cinema (1968), in which she constructed a Styrofoam box and placed it over her chest, inviting passersby to reach in and touch her breasts, still resonates for its shock-value and use of experimental mediums. A recipient of the Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria (2010), her work was included in the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Solo exhibitions include Centre George Pompidou, Paris, (2008) and Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2011).

 

Friedl Kubelka (vom Gröller) (b. 1946, London, UK)

Born in London to parents seeking political refuge, Kubelka spent her childhood in East Berlin before her parents settled in Vienna. She studied industrial photography at the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute, Vienna, from 1965 to 1969. She later founded her own 'School of Artistic Photography' in the city (1990), and the School for Independent Film (2010). She was awarded the State Prize for Photography in 2005, Austria's most prestigious photography award, and has had solo exhibitions at the Centre George Pompidou, Paris (1980), Fotogalerie, Vienna (2004), and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2005).

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