Hermann Nitsch Museum in Naples

In what is an old 19th-century coal-fired power plant, once used to produce electricity for the Bellini Theater, the Hermann Nitsch Museum of Naples is housed, where the artistic experience is total and at times disturbing, a true pearl.

Nitsch was one of the greatest exponents of a twentieth-century artistic movement called Viennese Actionism, a relative of performance body art but with psychological, sado-masochistic, irreverent and profane tendencies.

Action artists use their bodies and their actions as means to serve the artistic message, replacing pictorial color with the color of blood and animal or human bodily fluids.

Performances that in one way or another invade the space in a dramatic way, and provoke a very strong emotional tension in the spectator.

The Hermann Nitsch Museum of Naples houses the collection of Nitsch’s actions in collaboration with Beppe Morra.

The two were kindred spirits artistically and humanly, and it was Morra who brought the art of the Austrian actionist to Naples with his Morra Foundation.

Before visiting the museum you should know that the works on display can be disturbing and crude, also due to the use of materials such as blood, so before the visit, learn more online about the current of Viennese actionism and decide if it’s for you.