Franz Mon has been working as visual artist, writer and producer of audio plays for radio stations HR, WDR, ORF Vienna and Radio Stockholm. Together with Dietrich Mahlow he conceived the exhibition Schrift und Bild at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (1963), in the context of which he founded Typos publishers. His visual work has been shown in many exhibitions, among them the 1970 Venice Biennial and most recently in a retrospective at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2010).