Auszeichnungen

VALIE EXPORT received the Max-Beckmann-Prize of the City of Frankfurt 2022. Die Laudatio hielt die Schweizer Performance- und Objektkünstlerin Sylvie Fleury.

 On 11 May 2022, VALIE EXPORT was awarded the "Große Silberne Ehrenzeichen mit dem Stern für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich", by Andrea Mayer, at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok).

Laudation: Dr. Monika Faber

In October 2021 VALIE EXPORT became an Honorary Member of the Royal Photographic Society.

VALIE EXPORT receives a high award from the state of Upper Austria. The "Verdienstkreuz des Landes Oberösterreich für Kunst und Kultur" was awarded to her on September 1, 2020 in the Schlossmuseum Linz.
Laudation: Mag. Gabriele Spindler

For her impressive life's work, the filmmaker, media and performance artist will be honored as a "Visionary Pioneer of Media Art" with a Golden Nica from the Prix Ars Electronica.

VALIE EXPORT received the Art Prize of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation on 27 September 2019 and was honoured for her life's work.
Laudation: Yilmaz Dziewior

The award ceremony took place at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland.

VALIE EXPORT has been awarded with the Lebenswerk-Preis 2015 on October 14, 2015.
Laudation: Dr. Sabine Folie

The award ceremony took place in the Federal Ministry of Education and Women, Audience Hall in Vienna
by Federal Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek.

On 15 June 2015 VALIE EXPORT was awarded the Grand Golden Badge of Honour of the City of Linz for services to culture.
Laudation: Mayor Klaus Luger
Jury: City Senate, Linz

The award ceremony took place in the Old City Hall, Linz.

In 2014, VALIE EXPORT received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts, together with Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithfull, and Gustav Metzger.

The award was handed over by Yoko Ono Lennon to VALIE EXPORT in The Modern, New York City.

Laudation: Stuart Comer Chief Curator of Medeia and Performance Art Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York City

Awarded by Women's City Councillor Sandra Frauenberger, at Vienna City Hall

Prizewinners: VALIE EXPORT, Ina Wagner
Video:  Valie Export - Wiener Frauenpreis 2011

Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture; Presentation of the Austrian Decoration of Honour by Federal Minister Dr. Claudia Schmied

Speech: Dr. August Ruhs

Award of an honorary doctorate Dr.hc. by the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz

Laudation: Prof. Elsa Prochazka

Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture;

Address and presentation of the decrees and insignia of the Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art Dr. Heinz Fischer, Federal President of the Republic of Austria; Festsaal der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna l Platz 2

In 2005, VALIE EXPORT was elected as a member of the Austrian Curia for Science and Art.

Internationaler Preis für Kunst und Kultur 2004, Cultural Fund of the City of Salzburg, for outstanding achievements in the fields of photo and video art, multi media and feminist positioning; Mayor Dr. Heinz Schaden, Chairman of the Cultural Fund;

Laudation: Dr. Hildegard Fraueneder, Salzburg; Schloss Hellbrunn, Carabinierisaal,

Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien

Executive City Councillor Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny,
Laudation: Monika Faber, Vienna City Hall

Kunstwürdigungspreis der Stadt Linz 2002, Linz;

Laudation: Dr. Franz Dobusch, Altes Rathaus Linz

Alfred Kubin-Prize, Government of Upper Austria, Austria

Provincial Government of Upper Austria, Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer,
Laudation: Angelica Bäumer,
(Expert jury: Angelica Bäumer, Josef Altenburg, Lienhard Dinkhauser, Angela Völker)

Oskar Kokoschka Prize Austria, State Prize of the Austrian Federal Government, Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna

Due to political considerations, VALIE EXPORT refuses to accept the prize from a member of the ÖVP-FPÖ federal government. The prize was finally presented by the chairman of the independent jury Dr. Gerald Bast, rector of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Laudation: Hans Hollein

The prize is awarded to the artistic project >Mediale Analyse faschistoider Politik. Politische Manipulation und manipulative Konstruktion von Lüge und Wahrheit in Bild- und Informationstechnologien<

Syntax/Köln: 25.-29. Sept. 1998

Gustav – Klimt – Preis, Cultural department of the city Vienna
City Council Dr. Peter Marboe

Österreichischer Würdigungspreis für Künstlerische Fotografie, Federal Chancellery of Austria, Department of Art and Culture, Vienna
State secret. Dr. Peter Wittmann,
Laudation: Werner Fenz, November 2, 1998
Jury: Margarete Spiluttini , Heinz Cibulka, Werner Fenz

Gabriele Münter Prize '97, Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
Laudation: Renate Puvogel
(Awarded by the BM Claudia Nolte for Family in cooperation with the Bundesverband Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler and the Frauenmuseum Bonn)

Skulpturenpreis der EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna
Laudation: Ute Meta-Bauer

Sixth International Drawing Triennal Prize, Wroclaw

Auszeichnung für Computergrafik, ars electronica, Linz

Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich für Kunst und Wissenschaft, Film und Video, Government of Upper Austria, Linz
LH Dr. Josef Ratzenböck

Jury for film and video:
Gottfried Schlemmer, Peter Willnauer, Wilhelm Schwind, Christine Schöpf, Christa Blümlinger

Kunstpreis der Stadt Wien, Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
City Councillor for Culture Dr. Ursula Pasterk, Laudation: Catrin Pichler

Festival Prize, The 7th Annual Daniel Wadsworth Memorial Video Festival, Hartfort

Festival Prize, San Francisco International Video Festival

Premio Especiale del Jurado, 27. International Festival of Documentary and Short Film, Bilbao, Spain