The works themselves were not damaged. The two activists did write ‘+1.5°C’ on the wall. They refer to the goal of the international community to limit global warming to one and a half degrees Celsius. The two activists were arrested and detained, police said.
In the run-up to the UN climate summit COP27, which starts on Sunday, more and more climate demonstrations are taking place worldwide. In some of those actions, activists glued themselves to works of art or threw soup at them. Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Sower’ and ‘Sunflowers’ were previously targets, as was Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’.
