Marc Adrian is considered a pioneer in many areas of contemporary art. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as well as in Paris and Milan, he was initially close to the "Vienna Group".Around 1960 he appeared as a protagonist of the internationally active neo-avant-garde in the artist associations ZERO and was described by Peter Weibel as the "father of Austrian media art".

In 1965 he was the only Austrian to take part in the important Op Art exhibition "The Responsive Eye" at the New York Museum of Modern Art. There he showed one of his geometrically precise and visually irritating "rear glass montages", which made him internationally known.These assemblages invite the viewer to actively change their point of view in order to see optical changes in the works.

In addition to participation, movement, time and regularity are central elements of Marc Adrian's art. The starting points of his artistic work were sculpture, painting, op art, computer art and concrete poetry.At the same time, Adrian created a series of avant-garde experimental films and was one of the first to use the computer as a medium. After the Second World War, he succeeded in pursuing an artistic career that produced pioneering works in the fields of language, fine arts and experimental film.

Marc Adrian was born in 1930, in Vienna, Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna with Fritz Wotruba, and in Paris and Milan. In the 1950's and 1960's, Marc was in close contact with the Viennese Group, expanding the field of sculpture and painting to the medium of film.

The starting point of Marc Adrian's work were plastic, painting, op art, computer art and concrete poetry. Parallel to his literacy, sculptural and visual works, Marc created a series of avant-garde films. From the beginning of these, he dealt with the prevailing ideologies, and with topics such as violence, sexuality, power and the state, and perception and deception. In 1988 Marc was Austria's representative at the "Olympiade des artistes" in Seoul.

Marc Adrian died in 2008, in Austria.