Hermann Nitsch's Museo Nitsch Opens in Naples

The Museo Nitsch, dedicated to the work of Austrian actionist Hermann Nitsch, has opened in Naples, Italy. Funded by gallerist and patron Giuseppe Morra, who has supported Nitsch since 1973, the museum is the second institution devoted to the artist, after the one in Mistelbach, Austria. Designed by architect Rosario Boenzi in a former electrical plant, the museum is located between the hills of Capodimonte and Poggioreale, with a terrace overlooking Naples. It functions as an exhibition space, laboratory, and research center, described by Morra as "a living place where Hermann Nitsch's work will be commented on and continued." Nitsch, founder of the Orgies Mysteries Theatre in Vienna in 1960, is known for pagan rituals involving animal viscera, blood, and group performances aimed at inducing a Dionysian rebirth. The museum's exhibition includes exuberant mural paintings saturated with dried animal blood and pigments, alongside white towels, sugar pieces, surgical instruments, ritual adornments, objects, and flowers arranged symmetrically, revealing the paradox of Nitsch's expressionist art: emotion submits to order.