In her artistic practice, Kata Oelschlägel engages with the methods of Vienna Actionism – not with the intention of rejuvenating the movement, but to carry it forward in a progressive way.

Oelschlägel is concerned with both deconstruction and reconciliation – with an aesthetic that allows ambiguity and dissolves established connotations. Clarity is not asserted but undermined. Instead of radical gestures, her works reveal fragments, lines, and materials – traces of actions that may be read more as tender invitations than confrontations.

Central elements such as blood, the cut, and the human body are translated into sculptural processes. The action remains present, but no longer as immediate gesture – it becomes a material echo: in fabric, stone, canvas, and digital display.

The exhibition at the Nitsch Foundation explores the relationship between action and sculpture. Oelschlägel understands sculpture as an extension of action through space and time.

At the Nitsch Foundation, corporeality, ritual, and form encounter one another in a new visual language. Oelschlägel unfolds an aesthetic that seeks to move rather than to shock – beyond clarity, right within the in-between.

Opening: October 16, 2025, 6 pm