Opening of the group show

"Vier Aktionen" at the WAM

February 13, 2025, 8pm

Wiener Aktionismus Museum, Vienna, AT

In 2025, the exhibition and event programme of the Vienna Actionism Museum will focus entirely on the politics of the body and address the questions of how the artistic treatment of the body has developed over time and what we can expect in the future in this regard.

In the first exhibition of the new programme, all existing photographs of four actions from the first half of the 1960s will be on display from 13 March 2025:

Hermann Nitsch, 3rd Action (Festival of Psychophysical Naturalism)
Günter Brus, Silver
Otto Muehl, mama and papa
Rudolf Schwarzkogler, 4th action

The sequence of events and the individual scenes are also described verbally, making their complexity recognisable. The moving images created during the actions will in turn show that the filmmakers – unlike the photographers – did not fulfil Brus’, Muehl’s, Nitsch’s and Schwarzkogler’s wish for a documentary reproduction of their actions.

Opening with free admission on Thursday, 13 February 2025, 6:30 pm

 

 

Wiener Aktionismus Museum
Weihburggasse 26
1010 Vienna
Austria
wieneraktionismus.at

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