Arnulf Rainer Nothingness Against Everything

The Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden is honouring the 95th birthday of Arnulf Rainer, the world-renowned pioneer of Art Informel, with the anniversary exhibition ‘Nothingness Against Everything’.

Rainer's early works and his iconic Cross Overpaintings take centre stage. As early as the 1950s, Rainer began to move beyond representational painting and make a name for himself with Blind Drawings and Atomisations. Later, the Overpaintings became his trademark. The monumental Cross Overpaintings in particular are among the highlights of his oeuvre, embodying the deep dualism of creation and destruction, fullness and emptiness.

With this exhibition, the Arnulf Rainer Museum is showing part of the high-calibre Zambo Collection for the first time, which was acquired by the Provincial Collections of Lower Austria in 2024. The internationally renowned art collector Helmut Zambo accompanied Arnulf Rainer through all of his creative periods and built up the world's most important Rainer collection over decades.

For 15 years now, the Arnulf Rainer Museum in the former Frauenbad in Baden has been presenting the multifaceted oeuvre of the artist, who was born in Baden in 1929, in monographic and thematic exhibitions.