Organisers of a performance-art show featuring 100 naked women had to call in police reinforcements to control a long and impatient queue of people, police said on Saturday.
Scuffles broke out late on Friday as people tried to jump over the barriers to get closer to the women, aged between 18 and 65, wearing see-through stockings and greased with baby oil, who arranged themselves according to the instructions of United States artist Vanessa Beecroft.
The show, dubbed VB55, at one of Berlin’s main museums, was the latest in a series by Beecroft, who specialises in works displaying naked or semi-naked women. Her VB45, in Vienna in 2000, featured 45 of them.
Twenty police officers were required to control the Berlin spectators, who had each paid €10 (about R78) admission. — AFP