Vostell was the first artist to integrate a television set into a work of art. This installation was created in 1958 under the title "The black room" and is now part of the collection of the art museum Berlinische Galerie in Berlin. Early works with television sets are "Transmigracion" I-III from 1958 and "Elektronischer Dé-coll/age Happening Raum"("Electronic Dé-coll/age Happening Room") an Installation from 1968. In 1974, his first major retrospective took place in the ARC 2 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, an expanded version of which was shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie, in 1974.