his catalogue documents the first comprehensive exhibition of Hermann Nitsch's oeuvre in
Denmark featuring more than 150 important works from the 1960s to 2022. Paintings immersive
installations videos photographs and musical and graphic works by Hermann Nitsch from the
1960s until 2022 delve into the various themes and genres that Nitsch's challenging and
expressive art operates with. His many public appearances - featuring such props as naked
bodies slaughtered animals meat entrails and bodily fluids - and his highly expressive
bloody paintings are distinguished by an intense appropriation of religious symbols and
liturgical rituals culminating in the so-called Orgien-Mysterien-Theater (Orgies Mysteries
Theatre) where performance visual art music science and life merge into an opulent
intoxicating and cultically elevated Gesamtkunstwerk that affects all the senses.
