Upcoming, a large-scale retrospective will be dedicated to Nitsch at the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, followed by a solo exhibition and Aktion performance at the Antoni Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona. 

Nitsch’s oeuvre has been presented in major exhibitions and prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Leopold Museum and Albertina Museum, Vienna; and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona. In January 2025, the Centre Pompidou acquired three large-scale paintings and fifteen drawings, further cementing his international recognition. 

Hermann Nitsch, born on August 29, 1938, and passed away on April 18, 2022, was a seminal figure in contemporary art, and recognized as a founder Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism). 

During his academic training, Nitsch took a particular interest in Expressionism and religious art. Recognized worldwide as the master of Austrian performance art, he created a total art of boundless sensuality—Dionysian and demonic. His commanding mastery of all artistic genres (visual art, theater, music…) highlights spiritual, philosophical, aesthetic, and social value systems, forming the foundation of his monumental body of work.

In the 1950s, Nitsch conceived his famous "Orgies Mysteries Theatre," a grand and immersive performance known as the 6-Day-Play. During the early stages of his painting career, he employed a technique called Action painting, which involved splattering paint onto canvases. Some of his works from the 1960s featured the inclusion of fabric and blood, further emphasizing the visceral nature of his artistic vision.

His work is also held in the permanent collections of numerous leading institutions around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Hermann Nitsch and Museo Capodimonte, Naples; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunstmuseum, Bern; and the Leopold Museum, Vienna. His legacy is further preserved through dedicated institutions such as the Hermann Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach (est. 2007), the Museo Archivio Laboratorio per le Arti Contemporanee Hermann Nitsch in Naples (est. 2008), and the Nitsch Foundation in Vienna (est. 2009).