Otto Muehl, "Paintings from 1988"

As a companion to his Viennese Actionist show at Hauser & Wirth, curator Hubert Klocker has organized this focused exhibition on one of the movement's principals, Otto Muehl (1925–2013), whose post-Actionist career was arguably more controversial than his work with the group. In 1972, he founded a commune, which, according to some, became an authoritarian sect under his leadership. He would later be charged and convicted for sex with minors and drug dealing, for which he served six years in prison. But throughout, he pursued his practice, a form of action painting represented here by various canvases, as well as by videos documenting his process.