Hermann Nitsch Homage to colours

Hermann Nitsch was known as an interdisciplinary artist, creating performances, painting, composing music and his work encompasses many other activities.

He studied in the 1950s at the Graphische Lehr-und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. The artist became a pioneer of the urban avant-garde scene in the 1960s and 1970s; his radical and controversial performances were part of Viennese Actionism.

He created his famous theatre Das Orgien Mysterien Theater in the fifties. The culmination of these efforts was the large-scale sensory performance 6-Tage-Spiel (Six-Day Play), realized in the nineties; the concept of this six-day festival is still being perfected today.

In the early days of his painting practice, Nitsch created action paintings by applying paint to canvases. In addition, he also created prints exploring the composition of the human body, which he described as “architecture O. M. theatre”.

During the 1990s, Nitsch began to add paint and bloodstains to the printing process, establishing a dialogue with his works on canvas. The monographic work Hermann Nitsch – Das Gesamtkunstwerk des Orgien Mysterien Theaters, a monographic work of almost 1,000 pages, testifies to the enormous activity and topicality of his person.

Recently, Nitsch has increasingly dealt with the theme of resurrection in his painting, and at the Wagner Festival 2021 in Bayreuth he succeeded in realising a painting event. His works are exhibited in two monographic museums in Mistelbach and Naples, as well as in his Nitsch Foundation in Vienna and in prestigious international museums and galleries. Hermann Nitsch died on 18 April 2022.

Biography

Hermann Nitsch (1938 – 2022)

1957 Developed the idea of Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, a six-day festival whose concept is based on the artist’s main philosophy and which is still being developed today. O.M. theatre is a new form of total artwork (Gesamtkunstwerk) where reality is staged and all five senses of the participants are involved.
1962 The first “action” in Vienna.
1972 The artist participates in Documenta 5, in Kassel, curated by Harald Szeemann;
First 12-hour event (40th event) at the Mercer Art Center in New York. Countless exhibitions at prestigious institutions around the world from the 1960s to the present day.

Curated by Sammlung Werner Trenker and the Nitsch Foundation.

Location:

Danubiana, Čunovo, Slovakia

Date:

from 10.09.2024 – 24.11.2024

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Admission:

Adults – €10
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 20 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 5 €
Students – 5 €
Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Danubiana Club Members – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years of age – Free

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