Günter Brus, one of the cardinal figures of the Viennese Actionism movement, has died. Brus, who co-founded the movement along with Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler, died in his home ...

Vienna (AFP) – Vienna's first museum on the shock "Actionist" art movement opens its doors on Friday, aiming to highlight the work of its four key artists who long faced contempt and even persecution ...

Vienna (AFP) – Contemporary artist Guenter Brus, the last surviving key member of Vienna's famed "actionists", has died at the age of 85, the museum dedicated to the radical and provocative art ...

Naked bodies, violence, and destructive art. The term Viennese Actionism refers to a radical and explicit form of performance art that developed in the Austrian capital during the 1960s. David ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Otto Muehl, one of Austria's most provocative artists who was jailed for sexual offences against minors in 1991, died on Sunday aged 87, the Austria Press Agency said. He was best ...

Franz West, the renowned Austrian sculptor whose work cultivated a lively, sometimes bizarre sense of playfulness, which was no mean feat since he got his start during the brutally serious days of ...

Nitsch became a leading exponent of Viennese Actionism, the 1960s art movement (APA/AFP/Getty) Hermann Nitsch, a leading artist of the Austrian avant-garde whose blood-splattered canvases and ...

Brus and fellow actionists founded the 'Body Art' movement, using blood, urine and excrement as they defied the confines of traditional painting - Copyright AFP Aamir ...

VIENNA (Reuters) – Otto Muehl, one of Austria’s most provocative artists who was jailed for sexual offences against minors in 1991, died on Sunday aged 87, the Austria Press Agency said. He was best ...