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Vienna museum hosts swingers club to expose sexual inhibitions

The Secession contemporary art museum in Vienna is encouraging its visitors to confront their sexual inhibitions by having them walk through a swingers club to reach one of Gustav Klimt's masterpieces.

The sex club, named "Element6", is temporary and only part of a project by Swiss artist Christoph Buechel.

By night, the "swingers" carry out orgies among the artworks. Sex acts are however not allowed during day, and gallery visitors can wander among the club's king-size beds, erotic pictures, bar and whirlpool baths to view the art.

Klimt, Beethoven Frieze (detail) Photograph: Belvedere, Vienna/Tate

The museum is hoping to reignite the original controversy that surrounded Klimt's 1902 "Beethoven Frieze", an artwork that was once thought of as obscene and pornographic because of the way women's bodies were depicted.

The room where the frieze is exhibited is locked at night for security reasons. But it too has its share of the sex club's mattresses, surrounded by fake tropical plants and a life-size stuffed lion.

The exhibition runs until April 18.