KLAGENFURT, Austria—The Viennese Actionist Günter Brus has withdrawn his artworks from an exhibition at the Kunstverein Kärnten in Klagenfurt in protest of the local government's cancellation of a performance by cabaret artists Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann after the duo received death threats, reports Artforum via the Austrian Press Agency. Eckhard Küttler, president of the Kunstverein, read a statement from Brus at the exhibition's opening last week while another center official removed the works.

The Kunstverein took Brus's side. "We are decisively against every form of preventing freedom of speech and questioning the freedom of art," said Küttler.

The exhibition, "68/08," features works by Valie Export, Cornelius Kolig, Meina Schellander, Daniel Spoerri, Peter Krawagna, Franz Ringel, and the Munich artist collective King-Kong-Kunstkabinett. It runs through January 15.