Sex Club Opens in Art Gallery

The Secession is a world-renowned venue for contemporary art in Vienna. Currently they have installed "Element 6," a sex club that's part of a project by Swiss artist Christoph Buechel.

The club only opens during afterhours. The art hall is decked out in mattresses, erotic pictures, bars, whirlpools and non-working saunas in dimly lit rooms. It all leads to Gustav Klimt's "Beethoven Frieze," (shown here) located in the basement of the building.

"Beethoven Frieze" was first exhibited in 1902 and was considered as obscene and pornographic. Naturally it fits perfectly with Element6.

Buechel aims to cause a large scandal but no one is shocked - merely amused. Of course, there are some controversy from Australia's far-right Freedom Party. The point of the project was "to give as many people as possible the opportunity to overcome their inhibitions."