The works of the artist Joseph Beuys seems marked for the idea of rite, myth and shamanism at least is what it demonstrates most of the bibliography on the artist. To understand the works of Beuys, we will break of analisy of Cliford Geertz and Victor Turner. The first one in provides the approach to them of the artistic performance with the rite idea as a pause moment that makes possible a certain rework of the individual, functioning as a social mirror. With the second, through its phase liminary, we can understand as to breach the limits of daily, extending it, emphasizing subjective transformations in itself and the other. Leaving of these ideas we look for to observe the way as the artist placed in action its thoughts, using himself for this of similar principles or structures to that we can notice in the rites. In the rite normally it is possible to perceive the search for a social reconstruction of the reality, objective this, pointed in the actions of the artist, the direction to breach with the limits of the art and to reach a social reorganization.