The artist Valie Export, who has died aged 85, was celebrated for bold, witty, often challenging works in performance, film, photography and sculpture. She was part of a global generation of feminist artists who used their bodies to challenge the representation of women and the social structures imposed on them. Women must “make use of all media as a means of social struggle and as a means for social progress in order to liberate culture from masculine values”, she wrote.
For Export, art carried revolutionary potential.
