L’origine della forma espressiva di Nitsch (Vienna, 1938 - Mistelbach, 2022), drammaturgo, compositore, filosofo oltre che artista visivo, è complessa, ma riconducibile innanzi tutto a un atto di ribellione contro il silenzio devastante che caratterizzava l’Austria all'indomani della seconda guerra mondiale; quasi un’esortazione a Nitsch verso la sua zampillante, catartica esplosione di vis creativa, in una forma epica e apparentemente brutale. Per cogliere il senso e l’intensità della vita - ha teorizzato Nitsch - è necessario essere consapevoli delle estremità emozionali che ne definiscono i confini: dall'esaltazione estatica alla sofferenza ferina.

Nella sua arte confluiscono teatro, pittura, musica, fotografia, video, performance. Nitsch è il principale esponente (con Günter Brus, Otto Mühl e Rudolf Schwarzkogler) del Wiener Aktionismus, il movimento che intorno agli anni Sessanta rappresenta la massima tensione espressiva della Body Art europea. Nitsch elabora la sua idea di Orgien Mysterien Theater (Teatro delle Orge e dei Misteri): esperienza di arte totale legata al concetto psicanalitico di Abreaktion, ovvero la scarica emozionale che consente a un soggetto di rimuovere gli effetti di accadimenti drammatici. L’esecuzione di atti orgiastici e onanistici insieme con la messinscena di riti sacrificali (con memorie di misteri pagani e di Passione cristiana) deve consentire la liberazione catartica da tabù religiosi, moralistici, sessuali. Le sue “Azioni” lo portano a stringere relazioni in Germania con Beuys e Vostell e negli Stati Uniti con Kaprow e il gruppo Fluxus. Nel 1971 acquista il castello di Prinzendorf, a 50 km da Vienna, che diviene la sede del suo das Orgien Mysterien Theater.

Le opere di Hermann Nitsch sono incluse in numerose collezioni: oltre al MART di Rovereto, il Metropolitan Museum of Art, il MoMA, il Guggenheim New York, il Museum of Contemporary Art Denver e la Tate Modern di Londra.

Nel 2007, il governo austriaco ha dedicato all’artista l’Hermann Nitsch Museum di Mistelbach nei pressi della sua residenza a Prinzendorf. Nel 2008 apre a Napoli il Museo Hermann Nitsch - Archivio Laboratorio per le Arti Contemporanee.

Nel 2020 la Galleria Tretyakov di Mosca gli dedica un'intera sala in cui sono esposti tre suoi dipinti di grande formato.

Una delle ultime mostre del maestro dell'Azionismo Viennese mentre era ancora in vita è stata la personale NITSCH. Dall’Azionismo alla pittura nel 2022 presso gli spazi espositivi milanesi della Galleria Gaburro.

Mostre personali

2023 Hermann Nitsch Bayreuth Walküre e relitti 158. Action, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
The 6-day-play, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch. Cathartic Aversion, ABC-ARTE, Genova, Italia
Hermann Nitsch. Aktionsfotografie 1963 – 1984, Westlicht. Spazio per la fotografia, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch. Selected Paintings, Actions, Relics, and Musical Scores, 1965 – 2020, PACE, New York, USA

2022 The 6-day-play, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Scores of the 6-day-play, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
20th painting action, Oficine 800, Venezia, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Peres Projects, Berlino Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgio
NITSCH - dall'Azionismo alla pittura, Galleria Gaburro Boxart, Milano, Italia

2021 Bayreuth Walküre, Nitsch museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Works from the 86th painting action, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Bayreuth Stories, RX, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Bayreuth Prélude, RX | Paris, Parigi, Francia
Hermann Nitsch, 88th painting action, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Paint ad Material, Burg Vischering, Lüdinghausen, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Opera Gallery London, Londra, UK
Hermann Nitsch, Legend of Viennese Actionism, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Lettonia
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Jahn und Jahn, Monaco, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Mythos Passion, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria

2020 Sinfonia Napoli, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Bechter Kastowsky Galerie, Schaan, Liechtenstein
Hermann Nitsch The Shape of colour, RX | Paris, Parigi, Francia
Hermann Nitsch Im Rausch der Farben, Galerie Jahn Pfefferle, Monaco, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, New Works, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, The O.M Theatre, Opera Gallery Geneva, Ginevra, Svizzera
Hermann Nitsch, Ritualuri/Rituals, MARe Museum, Bucharest, Romania

2019 Hermann Nitsch. Katharsis, Palazzo Ducale, Mantova
Hermann Nitsch. Spaces of Color, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch – life and work, poster, libri e video degli ultimi sessanta anni di opere di Nitsch, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Relitti 152. azione, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
80, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
The Total Art Work, Lechner Museum, Ingolstadt, Germania
Hermann Nitsch & Julian Schnabel, doppia personale, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, Austria

2018 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie 422 Margund Lössl, Gmunden, Austria
Hermann Nitsch- something old and something new, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
80 years Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria
80 years Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Kunst&Handel, Graz, Austria
Hermann Nitsch. Memorial against the war, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Rx, Parigi, Francia
80 years Hermann Nitsch, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Francoforte, Germania
Hermann Nitsch – life and work, poster, libri e video degli ultimi sessanta anni di opere di Nitsch, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Kurhaus, Hinterzarten, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Londra, UK
Hermann Nitsch – solopresentation, Marc Straus Gallery, Armory show, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch - drawings 1957-2017, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna, Austria

2017 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Navratil, Praga, Repubblica Ceca
Tools and relics of the Orgies Mysteries Theaters, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch - under the mountains, Kunsthalle 1800, St. Christoph am Arlberg, Austria
Hermann Nitsch – the print works, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach Museum für druckgrafiken, Rankweil, Austria
Hermann Nitsch - collezione Carlo Palli, Carlo Palli, Fondazione opere Santa Rita, Prato, Italia
Hermann Nitsch - relikt // om theater, Tiberio Cattelani / om, Modena, Italia
Hermann Nitsch - celebrating life, Iaga Contemporary Art, Cluj/Napoca, Romania
Hermann Nitsch - la crudeltá nell'arte, Capit Romagna, Ravenna, Italia
Hermann Nitsch and his artistic pilgrimage, Um Museum, Bongdam, Hwaseong, Corea del Sud
Hermann Nitsch - O.M.T. colore dal rito, Museo Ciac, Foligno, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Geuer & Geuer Art Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germania

2016 Hermann Nitsch - the Orgies Mysteries Theatre, Art de Temple, Aschaffenburg, Germania
Utopia. The conceptual architecture of the Orgies Mysteries Theaters, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch and the theater, Amo - Arena Museo Opera, Verona, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie 422, Gmunden, Austria
Hermann Nitsch – Ritual, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Arena. Opere dall’opera, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch. Passion – Resurrection, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch - paintings/drawings/print, Galerie Fred Jahn, Monaco, Germania
Feast of existence. Hermann Nitsch and the theater, Museum Villa Stuck, Monaco, Germania
Hermann Nitsch. Posters from 5 decades, Daniel Löwenbrück, Berlino, Germania

2015 Existenzfest. Hermann Nitsch und das theater, Theatermuseum, Vienna, Austria
12 works on paper, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
Nitsch on the trails of Freud, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch. Il teatro delle orge e del mistero, Zac Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italia
Drawings - 1960 to 2015, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch. Memorial against the war, Çanakkale, Turchia
Feast of existence. Hermann Nitsch and the theater, Theatermuseum, Vienna, Austria
12 works on paper - 70th painting action, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
Hermann Nitsch. Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, Museo Jumex Cancelled, Città del Messico, Messico

2014 Aktionsmalerei, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turchia
New York 2011, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Arena - Opere dell'opera, Nitsch museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Malaktionismus, Museo Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
Das orgien mysterien theater, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovacchia
Carne e luce, Fondazione Ducci, Roma, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Culture Industries Association, Hong Kong
Maculations, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2013 Sinne und sein – Retrospektive, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
World metamorphosis, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria 
Hermann Nitsch, Studio Morra / Alnitak Art Agency, Art Berlin Contemporary, Germany
Performance Photography - 1960 to 1979, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2012 Hermann Nitsch, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Hermann Nitsch: aus dem gesamtkunstwerk, Galerie Walker, Schloss Ebenau, Rosental, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Centre Pompidou, Parigi, Francia 
5 jahre Hermann Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria

2011 Hermann Nitsch: 60 Painting Action_60.Malaktion, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Frühere werke aus der Duerckheim collection, Mzm, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria

2010 Personal structures. Time-space-existence, Künstlerhaus Bregenz Masterpieces from the Deuerkheim Collection, Hermann Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Pentecost celebration: 130. Aktion, Museum Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
Drawings exhibition at the cabinet des dessins, Musée d'art moderne, St. Etienne, Francia
Hermann Nitsch, Museum Nitsch, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Stella Art Foundation, Mosca, Russia
Conference, Brixner Symposium, Bressanone, Italia
Smelling, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Concert, Nitsch quintett, Musée d`art moderne, St. Etienne, Francia

2009 Dietro l’altare di Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Boxart, Verona, Italia
56. Painting performance, Hermann Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
First representation ägyptischen symphony, Hermann Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Kavernen, Salisburgo, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Incubate Festival in Tilburg, De Pont Museum Tilburg, Olanda
Hermann Nitsch, GAM, Torino, Italia
Exhibition Dirimart, Istanbul, Turchia

2008 Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Boxart, Verona, Italia

2007 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie am Stein, Schärding, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gand, Belgio
Hermann Nitsch, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Maringer, St. Pölten, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Fondazione Morra, Napoli, Italia

2006 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Curtze, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie White Space, Pechino, Cina
Hermann Nitsch, Mike Weiss Galery, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo, Giappone
Hermann Nitsch, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlino, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Large Retrospective, Galerie Weihergut, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Primo Piano LivinGallery, Lecce, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie 422, Gmunden, Austria

2005 Hermann Nitsch, Lower Austrian Centre of Documentation for Modern Art, DOK, St. Pölten, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Saatchi Gallery, Londra, UK
Hermann Nitsch, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Christine König, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Jünger, Baden, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Station Museum of Contemporary Art Houston, Texas, USA
Actions 1962-2003, Slought Foundation, Phildelphia, USA

2004 Hermann Nitsch, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria 
Hermann Nitsch, Haus der Musik, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie am Stein, Schärding, Austria

2003 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Kunst & Handel, Graz, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Haus der Musik, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Gerersdorfer, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salisburgo, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, works from Sammlung Essl 1960–2000, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria

2002 Hermann Nitsch, Fondazione Morra, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Kulturhaus, Bruck an der Mur, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Museum der Moderne Salisburgo Rupertinum, Salisburgo, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie 422, Gmuden, Austria

2001 Hermann Nitsch, Österreichische Galerie Oberes Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

2000 Hermann Nitsch, White Box Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Palazzo Steline, Milano, Italia

1999 Hermann Nitsch, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Ungheria
Hermann Nitsch, White Box Gallery, con Günther Brus, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie am Stein, Schärding, Austria

1998 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Frank Hänel, Francoforte, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Hundertmark, Colonia, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gand, Belgio
Hermann Nitsch, Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Lindinger & Schmid, Regensburg, Germania

1997 Retrospective, Konsthallen Göteborg, Svezia
Retrospective, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Lussemburgo, Lussemburgo
Hermann Nitsch, Neue Galerie, Linz, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Underwoodstreet Gallery, Londra, UK
Hermann Nitsch, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria

1996 Hermann Nitsch, Gallery Stefania Miscetti, Roma, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germania
Retrospective, Sala Parapalló, Valencia, Spagna
Painting action and exhibition, Schömer–Haus, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Guiseppe Morra, Napoli, Italia
Retrospective, Casa Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spagna

1995 Retrospective show, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Barlach, Halle k, Amburgo, Germania
Ausstellungen und Aktionen in der Trinitatiskirche, Colonia, Germania

1994 Hermann Nitsch, Raiffeisenhalle, Francoforte, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Tumult, Torino, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Casina Vanvitelliana, Fusaro, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Kärntner Landesmuseum, Klagenfurt, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Fred Jahn, Monaco, Germania

1993 Hermann Nitsch, Rány a Mystéria (injuries and mysteries), National Gallery, Praga, Repubblica Ceca
Hermann Nitsch, Neues Museum Weserburg, Brema, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Fred Jahn, Monaco, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Cattellani, Modena, Italia

1992 Retrospective on the occasion of the world exhibition, Pabellón de las Aetes, Siviglia, Spagna
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Heike Curtze, Schloss Prinzendorf, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Parigi, Francia

1991 Hermann Nitsch, St. Petri, Lubecca, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Festspielhaus, Bregenz, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, br>Traklhaus, Salisburgo, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milano, Italia

1990 Hermann Nitsch, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Olanda
Aktionsmalereien, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
1960–63, 1989–90, Düsseldorf, Hafen, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Ottesen, Copenaghen, Danimarca
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie AK, Francoforte sul Meno, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurigo, Svizzera
Hermann Nitsch, Rupertinum, Salisburgo, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Beaumont, Lussemburgo, Lussemburgo

1989 Hermann Nitsch, Museum des 20, Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Kunstverein, Salisburgo, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Luhring & Augustine, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Donguy, Parigi, Francia

1988 Hermann Nitsch, David Nolan Gallery, New York, USA
Hermann Nitsch, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco, Germania

1987 Hermann Nitsch, Villa Pignatelli, Napoli, Italia
20th painting action and exhibition, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

1985 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurigo, Svizzera

1984 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Franz Paludetto, Torino, Italia

1983 Hermann Nitsch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Olanda
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Fred Jahn, Monaco, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Neue Galerie, Linz, Austria

1982 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Gadenstätter, Zell am See, Austria

1981 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Pakesch, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Kulturhaus, Graz, Austria

1979 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Petersen, Berlino, Germania

1978 Hermann Nitsch, Retrospektive 1960–77, Modern Art Galerie, Vienna, Austria

1977 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie de Appel, Amsterdam, Olanda

1976 Hermann Nitsch, Kunstverein, Kassel, Germania

1975 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Stadler, Parigi, Francia

1974 Hermann Nitsch, Studio Morra, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Diagramma, Milano, Italia

1973 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Werner, Colonia, Germania
Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Klewan, Vienna, Austria

1964 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Junge Generation, Vienna, Austria

1963 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Dvorak, Vienna, Austria

1961 Hermann Nitsch, Galerie Fuch, Vienna, Austria

1960 Hermann Nitsch, Loyality Club, Vienna, Austria

Mostre collettive

2023 Nitsch a Homage By Paul Renner. Seeing, smelling & squeezing, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2022 Körperbilder: Intimität - Dekonstruktion – Interaktion, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Berlino, Germania

2021
Odore, L’art, l’odeur et le sacré, Galerie Pauline Pavec, Parigi, Francia
Tense conditions, A presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germania
Radical Austria, Everything is Architecture, Design Museum den Bosch, Den Bosch, Paesi Bassi
Resistance, Maruani Mercier, Bruxelles, Belgio
Claudio Costa | Hermann Nitsch, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia, Italia
Un art autre et au-delà, Opera Gallery Geneva, Ginevra, Svizzera

2020 The beginning, Art in Austria, ALBERTINA modern, Vienna, Austria
Double Lives, Visual artists making music, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germania
Duck Soup, Marc Straus, New York, USA
STOJĄC OBOK, Jarosław Bauć, Koji Kamoji, Hermann Nitsch, Jacek Sempoliński, Gdańsk, Polonia
Passion – Leidenschaft, The art of great emotions, LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germania

2019 Intriguing Uncertainties, The Parkview Green Museum, Pechino, Cina
Opera as the World. The quest for a total work of art, Centre Pompidou, Metz, Francia
Hermann Nitsch & Julian Schnabel, Galerie Elisabet & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, Austria
Hermann Nitsch / Karl Stengel, punti di vista, ZetaEffe Galleria, Firenze, Italia
The Dark Side. Chi ha paura del buio?, Musja, Roma, Italia
Disturbing Narratives, The Parkview Green Museum, Singapore

2018 Kunstimweinkeller, Kiwk, Straden, Austria
Hermann Nitsch / Elgar Esser / Lee Bae / Bae Bien-u, Galerie Rx, Parigi, Francia
War is over. Arte e conflitti tra mito e contemporaneità, MAR Museo d'Arte della Città, Ravenna, Italia
Intra moenia. Collezioni Cattelani, Castello Campori, Soliera (Modena), Italia

2017 Hermann Nitsch / Julian Beck / Shozo Shimamoto / Joseph Beuys, Casa Morra, Napoli, Italia
Hermann Nitsch, Parallel Vienna, Altes Zollamt (Sigmund Freund Universität), Vienna, Austria
Gemischter Satz, Hermann Nitsch und Vroni Schwegler, Verein für Originalradierung, Monaco, Germania
Hermann Nitsch - Art Brussels, Marc Strauss Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgio
Psycho drawing - art brut and the '60s and '70s in Austria, Lentos, Linz, Austria
Hermann Nitsch & Hans Karl Kandel - purity and ritual, Kunst Galerie Fürth, Fürth, Germania
Hermann Nitsch - arco Madrid Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Marc Strauss Gallery, Madrid, Spagna
Hermann Nitsch - zona Maco México Arte Contemporaneo, Marc Strauss Gallery, Città del Messico, Messico

2016 Hermann Nitsch - Dallas Biennial with Teresa Margolles, Dallas Biennial, Dallas, Texas, USA
Hermann Nitsch performance-cinema, Parallel Vienna, Alte Post (Dominikanerbastei), Vienna, Austria
Le corps peint. Nature, violence et séduction, Fondation Pierre Arnaud, Lens/Crans-Montana, Svizzera
Closed universe? New forms of Vienna Actionism in Contemporary Art?, Galerie Martinetz, Colonia, Germania
Body, psyche & taboo, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
Crocifissi - kreuzigungen, Francis Bacon - Hermann Nitsch - Concetto Pozzati, Palazzo Montanari, Bologna, Italia

2015 Saturnalia II, Galerie Konzett, Vienna, Austria
Leviticus, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
The Orgies Mysteries Theater, Summerhall Art Festival, Edinburgo, UK
Au rendez-vous des amis, Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, Città di Castello, Italia
My body is the event, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
Vienna for art's sake, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen, Vienna einzelpräsentation im rahmen der gruppenausstellung, Austria
Sleepless, 21er haus, Vienna, Austria

2014 Made in Austria, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Im dialog - Wiener Aktionismus, Mdm, Salisburgo, Austria
Biennale di disegno, Rimini, Italia
142nd action, feast of Pentecost, Prinzendorf Castle, Austria
77. Painting Performance, Galerie Thoman, Vienna, Austria
Senses and Being, Nitsch Museum, Mistelbach, Austria
Senses and Being, Linz, Austria
Selten gehörten musik, theater Casino Zug e Musikakademie, Basilea, Svizzera

2013 Personal structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venezia, Italia
La perversión de lo clásico: anarquía de los relatos, Museo Archeologico, Padiglione Cuba, 55esima Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italia
Flesh and blood, Museum on the seam, Gerusalemme, Israele
Faces past and present, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Ungheria
Seeing Wagner, k.u.k. post- and Telegraphenamt, Vienna, Austria
Ernesto Balducci and the 'mass of the artists, Fondazione Ernesto Balducci, Palazzo Medici Ricardi, Firenze, Italia
Duetto per Napoli, (Attersee e Nitsch), Castel dell'Ovo, Napoli, Italia
138th action (3-day-play), Centraltheater, Lipsia, Germania
140th action (teaching action), Abc, Berlino, Germania
66th painting action, Istanbul contemporary, Istanbul, Turchia
141st action (teaching action), Nitsch Foundation Vienna, Austria
Collettiva, Universität Leipzig, Museum der bildenden künste, Lipsia, Germania
Concerts: streichquintett 1938, Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Leipzig Symphony, Centraltheater, Lipsia, Germania
Composition for Organ, Jesuitenkirche, Vienna, Austria
Duetto per Napoli (Attersee/Nitsch), Teatrino di Corte, Napoli, Italia

2012 Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk im 21er haus, Vienna, Austria
Levitikus, Innsbruck/Vienna, Austria
Kunstkulturkirche, Francoforte, Germania; Thoman Modern, Innsbruck, Austria
Explosion painting as action, Moderna Museet, Stoccolma, Svezia
Explosion painting as action, Galerie 422 Margund Lössl, Gmunden, Austria
Explosion painting as action, Fondacio Joan Miro, Barcellona, Spagna
A bigger splash: painting after performance art, Tate Modern, Londra, UK
135th action, L’Avana, Cuba
64th painting performance, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Mart, Rovereto, Italia
Concerts: sinfonie for 100 pianists and 33 pianos and 1 synthesizer, Tag der Tausend Finger / OÖ Kulturquartier Linz, Austria

 

2011 Blood Lines, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
60th Painting Action, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Obsession and intimacy: the body in Contemporary Austrian drawings - from Alfred Kubin to Birgit Jürgenssen, B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Atene, Grecia
131th Teaching Action, Leo König inc., New York, USA
Eroi, GAM, Torino, Italia
Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo, Venezia, Italia
Costumes and settings by Hermann Nitsch for Saint Francois d`Assise by Olivier Messiaen, Bayerische Staatsoper, Monaco, Germania 
Organ Concert, Mozarteum, Salisburgo, Austria

2010 Potere Inconscio e Creatività. Lo stato delle cose, Cascina Farsetti, Villa Doria Pamphilj, Roma, Italia
New Acquisitions, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, Francia
 

2009 Il Teatro della Performance, GAM, Torino, Italia
An Open Window on the World of Art, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italia
Stations of the Cross, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Olanda
Quinta triennale d’arte sacra Contemporanea, Seminario Arcivescovile, Lecce, Italia
Cose mai viste. The Road to Contemporary, Palazzo Barberini, Roma, Italia

2008 Five Year Anniversary Show, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Ebb and Flow, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA

2007 Ultime Ultime Cene, Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Milano, Italia

2006 Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
Realm of the Spirit, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
Reverence, Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art, Peeksill, USA
Intensive Painting, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Ginevra, Svizzera
Herman Nitsch and Erika Schmied, Galerie 422 Margund Lössl, Gmunden, Austria

2005 Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA
The Giving Person. Il dono dell’artista, Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli, Napoli, Italia

2004 Site Santa Fe Biennial, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, USA

2001 Le tribù dell’Arte II, GAM, Roma, Italia

2000 Paradise Lost, Stephansstift, Hannover, Germania
Faith, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA

1998 Out of Actions, Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Beyond The Pink (video presentation), Art Centre, Pasadena, USA

1997 Die Epoche der Moderne, Kunst im 20. Jhdt, Gropiusbau, Berlino, Germania
Sinnlicher Sommer, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Group exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Dadaismo – dadismi, 300 capolavori in mostra, da Duchamp a Warhol, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italia

1996 Artisti Austriaci a Roma, Palazzo Braschi, Roma, Italia
Malerei in Österreich 1945-95, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Mysterium Wein, Historisches Museum de Pflaz, Speyer, Germania
Chaos, Wahnsinn, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Germania
L’Art au Corps, Musée D’Art Contemporain, Marsiglia, Francia
Tight: Sphincteric Arhatship, Tans-Hudson Gallery, New York, USA

1995 Group exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Olanda
Group exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Ungheria
L’Art Contemporain Autrichien, Rouen, Caen, Francia

1994 L’ Incanto e la Transcendenza, Castel Ivano, Trento, Italia
Il Paese Della Meraviglie e le Tavole Della Legge, Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia (Siena), Italia

1993 Group Exhibition, Akademie Der Künste, Berlino, Germania

1992 Hors Limits, Centre Georges Pompidou, Parigi, Francia
L’ Incanto e la Transcendenza, Castel Ivano, Trento, Italia
Il Paese Della Meraviglie e le Tavole Della Legge, Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia (Siena), Italia
Casula, Kunststation St. Petri, Köln, Germania

1991 Group Exhibition, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stoccolma, Svezia

1990 Gegenwart-Ewigkeit, Gropiusbau, Berlin, Germania

1989 Group Exhibition, Luhring Augustine & Hodes, New York, USA

1988 Group Exhibition, Teilnahme an der Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Group Exhibition, Luhring Augustine & Hodes, New York, USA

1987 Group Exhibition, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, USA

1986 Austrian Drawing, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA 
Rennweg, Sala Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Madrid, Spagna
Dal Profondo, Padiglione D’Arte Contemoranea, Milano, Italia
Beuys zu Ehren, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco di Baviera, Germania

1985 Brus, Rainer, Nitsch, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

1983 Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk, Ausstellung von HaraldSzeemann u. a., Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1982 Documenta VII, Kassel, Germania

1980 69th Action (3 hours), New York Art Fair, New York, USA

1972 Documenta V, Kassel, Germania
39th Action (2 hours), Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, USA
40th Action (first 12 hour action), Mercer Arts Center, New York, USA
58th Action (2 hours), Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada
59th Action (2 hours), Laica and SSB, Los Angeles, USA

1970 Happening und Fluxus, Kunstverein, Colonia, Germania
33rd Action (2 hours), Douglas College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
34th Action (2 hours), New York State University, Binghampton, New York, USA

1963 Wiener Secession, Graz,  Austria
Die Blutorgel, Pernetgassenkeller, Vienna,  Austria

1962 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul, Corea del Sud

1960 Mostra di gruppo, Galerie Zum Roten Apfel, Vienna,  Austria