02.07.2026 – 29.11.2026
With technical brilliance and an inquisitive spirit, Karl Heinz Koller has created an outstanding body of work that uses analogue techniques to produce images once thought virtually impossible. Accustomed as we are to digital imagery, what this ‘image generator’ – as he called himself – presents to us comes as a great surprise. With early series such as ‘One month in my Life’ (1974), performances by artists such as Johann Jascha and Bruno Demattio (1972–75), and a documentary on European youth centres, Karl Heinz Koller opened up a wide field of activity right from the start of his artistic career. Between 1989 and 1995, “From the Palace of Immortality – Project Erwin” emerged as a self-contained body of work comprising 39 notebooks containing texts, photographs and clippings. Overall, the result is an idiosyncratic, avant-garde body of work that gained recognition, for instance through Koller’s participation in the legendary exhibition “Erweiterte Fotografie” at the Vienna Secession. His untimely death prevented him from achieving greater renown; this first museum exhibition now restores visibility to his significant position in art history.
Karl Heinz Koller – The Image Generator
02.07.2026 – 29.11.2026
Wien Museum MUSA
Felderstraße 6-8
1010 Vienna
www.wienmuseum.at
