Lights, camera, Actionism! Günter Brus stars in Berlin show

Günter Brus (born 1938) leaves little to the imagination. In 1968, he staged a performance at the University of Vienna with fellow artists Otto Mühl, Oswald Wiener, Franz Kaltenbäck and Peter Weibel: Brus cut his chest and thigh, smeared himself in excrement, drank his own urine and sang the Austrian national anthem while masturbating. He was promptly arrested and given a six-month prison sentence.
Brus was a founding member of Viennese Actionism—along with Mühl, Herma