With technical brilliance and a pioneering spirit, Karl Heinz Koller created an extraordinary body of work that achieved, through purely analogue means, what was long considered virtually impossible. In an age accustomed to digital imagery, it is all the more astonishing to encounter the visual worlds conceived by this self-proclaimed “image generator.”

The result is a distinctive and avant-garde oeuvre that received critical recognition, most notably through Koller’s participation in the legendary exhibition Expanded Photography (Erweiterte Fotografie) at the Vienna Secession. His premature death prevented his work from gaining the wider recognition it deserved; this first museum exhibition now reasserts his significant place within art history.

This first comprehensive publication brings Karl Heinz Koller’s multifaceted artistic practice back into the public eye while underscoring its enduring importance within the history of art.