Research

The VALIE EXPORT Center Linz is a lively place of ongoing research. In addition to the cataloguing and scholarly processing of the archive, the Center offers an institutional framework for researchers from academia and the arts.

The Center’s guiding principle is that creative, artistic, and scholarly works are not merely settings, but situated and speculative processes of experimentation. VALIE EXPORT's archive, with its focus on media and performance art, expands the subject matter of the research beyond the aesthetic practices, experiential spaces, and critical debates about traditional art forms. VALIE EXPORT's premature legacy opens up access to cross-genre processes of artistic production that are structured by media technology and experiments with social relations.

Current research topics at the VALIE EXPORT Center include:

- Feminist art: Photography, experimental film, video, and performance
- Media aesthetics and the history of media art
- Female artists' archives and procedures of documentation: Archival processes and curatorial practices
- Performance as action knowledge and relational aesthetic research

Since the VALIE EXPORT Center opened, the following reserchers and their projects at the Linz University of Arts have been associated with the Center:

Anne Glassner

Scholarships for artists and arts-based researcher

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Katrin Mayer

Scholarships for artists and arts-based researcher

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Graziele Lautenschlaeger

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

posthuman mothers
technofeminism and motherhood in (media) art

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Ambra Pittoni

PhD Candidate Junior Fellowship 2021-2022

The promise of the abyss. Body practices and new spaces of knowledge.

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Madeleine Freund

PhD Project

VALIE EXPORT’s Body Politics

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Ira Konyukhova

PhD Candidate Junior Fellowship 

Re-construction of “Femininity”: The question of Gender in Art in Times of Artificial Intelligence-Technology

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Claudia Larcher

Scholarships for artists and arts-based researcher

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Tabea Borchardt

Scholarships for artists and arts-based researcher

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Diana-Cristina Bulzan

PhD Candidate Junior Fellowship

Sensible Worlds. Experience and Labour in the Age of Cinema

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Nathan Stobaugh

PhD Project

VALIE EXPORT: Fixing and Fixating the Postwar Psyche

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Rose-Anne Gush

PhD

Figuring Austria’s Repressed Violence: Artistic Labour of the Body in the Work of Elfriede Jelinek and VALIE EXPORT

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Anna Fliri

Dissertation project

VALIE EXPORT’s Body Configurations.
A political anatomy of body and architecture

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Ulrike Hanstein

Director of VALIE EXPORT Center Linz and University Professorship for Art and Media Studies since October 2022

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Sabine Folie

University Professorship for­­ Performance Art and Time-related ­Media Art 2019/20 2021

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Barbara Filser

Visiting Research Professorship for Media Art 2016/17

Unruly Archives. Art and its Paper Trails

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Lilo Nein alias Marlis Reissert

Senior Scientist

Versuch über die Versöhnung mit dem Schaum
An installative contribution to the conference Neue Schwierigkeiten nein zu sagen.

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