TIME LINE

1957

Creates the concept of the Orgies Mysteries Theater, a six-day

event that continues to captivate him throughout his career.

1960-66

Actions and exhibitions resulting in various court trials and three

prison sentences, Vienna, Austria

1989  

Teacher at the Academy of Visual Arts, Frankfurt

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Form as Strategy, Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Columbia University, New York

Opening, Museo Archivio Laboratorio Hermann Nitsch, Naples, Italy

2007

The Orgies Mysteries Theater, Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna, Italy (catalog)

Galerie beaumontpublic + königbloc, Luxembourg (catalog)

Galeria Box Art in Verona, Italy.  Curated by Dr. Danilo Eccher. (catalog)

Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

Selected Works, 1960 – Present, Hermann Nitsch Museum, Museums Zentrum Mistelbach, Mistelbach, Austria (catalog)

2006

Hermann Nitsch: New Paintings and Video, Mike Weiss Gallery, NY

Retrospective, Nationalgalerie Staaliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany (catalog)

Spac Villa Toppoflorio, Undine, Italy

Hermann Nitsch / Yango Shaobin, Alexanger Ochs – White Space, Beijing; Alexander Ochs, Berlin

2005

The Orgies Mysteries Theater, The Station Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)

2004

New Paintings, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)

2003

Art Scarplin, Merano, Italy

Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Germany

2002

Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

Gallery Fortlaan, Ghent, Belgium

2001

Oberes Belevedere, Vienna, Austria

Hürlimannareal, Zürich, Switzerland

Haburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

2000

Palazzo Steline, Milan, Italy

Galleria Communale D’Arte Moderna e Contemoranea, Rome, Itlay

1999

Mumok, Vienna, Austria

Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1998

Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany

1997

Retrospective, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden

Retrospective, Musée D’Art et D’Histoire, Luxembourg

St. Peter an der Sperr, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg

Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria

Underwoodstreet Gallery, London, England

Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria

Galerie Prantl, Oberlech, Austria

1996

Galerie Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany

Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Retrospective, Rome, Italy

Kunstverein Gmunden, Hipp-Halle, Austria

Retrospective, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain

Malaktion U. Ausstellung, Schömerhaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Galerie Giuseppe Morra, Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy

Retrospective, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1995

Retrospektivausstellung, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Galerie Barlach, Halle-K, Hamburg, Germany

 

Ausstellung und Aktion in der Trinitatiskirche, Köln, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

Five Year Anniversary Show, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

Ebb and Flow, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2006

Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples / 1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

Realm of the Spirit, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

Intensive Painting, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland

Hermann Nitsch and Erika Schmied, Galerie 422 Margund Lössl, Gmunden, Austria

2005

Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Site Santa Fe Biennial, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Good Morning Balkan, Athens, Greece

2000

Paradise Lost, Stephansstift, Hannover, Germany

Faith, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CN

6 Views of the 6-Day-Play, Video Presentation, Barnsdall Art Park Gallery Theater, Los Angeles, CA

1999

White Box Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Out of Actions—Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA

Beyond the Pink, Video Presentation, Art Center, Pasadena, CA

1997

Die Epoche der Moderne, Kunst im 20. Jhdt., Martin Gropius Bau,

Berlin, Germany

Sinnlicher Sommer, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

1996

Artisti Austriaci a Roma, Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy

Malerei in Österreich 1945-95, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Mysterium Wein, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany

Chaos, Wahnsinn, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Germany

L’Art au Corps, Musée D’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France

Tight: Sphincteric Arhatship, Tans-Hudson Gallery, New York,
Knoxville, TN. Traveling exhibition

1995

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

L’Art Contemporain Autrichien, Rouen, Caen, France

1994

Malfiguren, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Hors Limits, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1994

L’ Incanto e la Transcendenza, Castel Ivano, Trento, Italy

Il Paese Della Meraviglie e le Tavole Della Legge, Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia, Italy

1993

Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, Germany

1992

Casula, Kunststation St. Petri, Köln, Germany

1991

Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

1990

Gegenwart-Ewigkeit , Gropiusbau, Berlin, Germany

1989

Luhring Augustine & Hodes, New York, NY

1988

Teilnahme an der Biennale, Sydney, Australia

Luhring Augustine & Hodes, New York, NY

1987

Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC

1986

Austrian Drawing, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rennweg, Sala Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Madrid, Spain

Dal Profondo, Padiglione D’Arte Contemoranea, Milan, Italy

Beuys zu Ehren, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1985

Brus, Rainer, Nitsch, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

1983

Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk, Ausstellung von

HaraldSzeemann u. a., Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1982  

Documenta VII, Kassel, Germany

1980   

69th Action (3 hours), New York Art Fair, New York, NY

1972

Documenta V, Kassel, Germany

39th Action (2 hours), Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, NY

40th Action (first 12 hour action), Mercer Arts Center, New York, NY

58th Action (2 hours), Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada

59th Action (2 hours), Laica and SSB, Los Angeles, CA

1970

Happening und Fluxus, Kunstverein, Köln, Germany

33rd Action (2 hours), Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

34th Action (2 hours), New York State University, Binghampton, New York, NY

SELECTED PERMANENT  COLLECTIONS

MoMA New York, Guggenheim New York, Metropolitan Museum New York, Yale University, Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Tate Gallery London,  Musée Centre George Pompidou Paris, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, Castello di Rivoli Turin, Sammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen Düsseldorf, Museum Ludwig Köln, Lenbachhaus Munich, Nationalgalerie Munich, Graphische Sammlung Munich, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Museum Neue Galerie Saarbrücken, Schloss Moorsbroich Leverkusen, Museo Capodimonte Napels, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Museum Moderner Kunst-Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum Linz, Rupertinum Salzburg, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck, Sammlung Essl Klosterneuburg, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY