Exhibitions

The exhibition "My Nitsch" is the personal view of the art collector Karlheinz Essl on the life's work of Hermann Nitsch. From the mid-1980s onwards, Agnes and Karlheinz Essl have focussed focus of their collecting activities on Hermann Nitsch and dedicated several exhibitions to him in the following years. dedicated to him. A friendship developed between collector and artist friendship developed between collector and artist, which led to joint travels and intensive correspondence, which often centred on philosophical and theological philosophical and theological questions. With "My Nitsch", Karlheinz Essl now provides deep insights into Nitsch's world view. The "white picture" will be on display for the first time, a unique piece in Nitsch's entire oeuvre. With numerous works from Nitsch's Nitsch's main creative period and the later years of his life, the collector traces the artist's development towards a wealth of colour colourfulness and thematises the artist's preoccupation with the questions of where we come from, where we are going, what was before us and what will be after us.