Background
Kubelka was born in London, then moved with her family to East Berlin and then Vienna, where she spent most of her childhood. Kubelka began taking pictures at the age of twelve after receiving her first box camera from her father.
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Friedl Kubelka
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From 1965 to 1969, Kubelka studied photography, and began film-making, at the Graphic Instruction and Research Institute in Vienna as Friedl Bondy.
Career
Her art is regared as part of the 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism, where female artists would use their sexuality to express their innermost selves on camera. Kubelka"s photographic works focus on accentuating temporality, seriality and the body. At age sixteen, she started taking pictures of people, faces, and bodies.
After completing her diploma examination to become a professional commercial photographer in 1971, she decided to run her own photography studio until 1997.
Kubelka typically does not photograph strangers or people on the streets but rather friends, family and a lot of children. Kubelka is interested in capturing people around her that she knows, as well as photographing herself.
She has also taken architectural photography and fashion photography. Kubelka"s films often include a cast of family members, friends, colleagues and sometimes male strangers.
Kubelka is best known for Year’s Portraits, a project she begun in 1972, in which she photographed herself daily over the period of a year and then repeated the process every year since.
In 1977, Friedl directed her first class in “artistic photography”. When Louise was born, Friedl began photographing her and continued to do so until her eighteenth birthday, calling the series She also had solo exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The Fotogalerie in Vienna and the Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam.
Kubelka divorced Peter Kubelka in 2001 and in 2009 married Georg Gröller.
She then changed herr name to Friedl Vom Gröller. The School for in Vienna In autumn of 1990, Kubelka founded the School for Artistic in Vienna.
The School for Artistic in Vienna is the first school to devote itself to artistic photography in Austria.
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Her parents were forced to leave Austria due to their political views, relocating their family to London.
