[3] Friedl began taking photographs at the age of twelve after receiving a box camera as a gift from her father in 1958.
These photos eventually became known as her Pin-Up series, and were borne from Kubelka's self-stated attempt to analyze the distance between the model and the photographer.
This process was meant to document the variety of emotions she experienced and provide an intimate view into her life as a woman and an artist, and later, as a wife and a mother.
Traditionally one would say, vom Gröller's work specializes in portraiture, but more accurately the artist's prolific practice is one of intimate encounters, which capture and seize upon elongated moments and brief experiences that refuse to relinquish their fleetingness."
[4] She has had solo exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Fotogalerie in Vienna and the Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam.
[7] In 2020, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg put forth an exhibition curated by Jürgen Tabor that spanned decades' worth of Kubelka's art.
[11] The School featured guests and teachers including Wolfgang Tillmanns, [12] Hito Steyerl, [13] Jakob Lena Knebl,[14] Annette Kelm,[15] Prinz Gholam [16] and Maren Lübbke-Tidow.
The School for Independent Film has featured guests and teachers including Ken Jacobs, Robert Beavers, Peter Weibel, Oona Mosna,[21] Kenneth Anger, Peter Tscherkassky, Eve Heller, James Benning, and Mark Webber.