Some common themes in the work include self discipline (of the models),
voyeurism, and power relationships.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere,
Van Abbemuseum, Strict rules were imposed on the models' behavior during the performances and they were instructed not to engage with the audience. •
VB25 (1996) performance took place at
Van Abbemuseum in
Eindhoven, Netherlands, with seven identical-looking young women wearing fake eyelashes and red nail polish, each dressed in a polo-neck pullover, white underwear, tights, and high heels. •
VB35: Show (1998) took place at the
Guggenheim Museum in New York; twenty women stood in the museum for two hours in a circular arrangement in order to mirror the architecture. and the production was done by Yvonne Force Villareal, and Doreen Remen. •
VB45 (2001) took place at the
Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna, Austria, with 45 girls, naked except for black, thigh-high boots designed for the performance by
Helmut Lang. •
VB51 (2002) was her first filmed performance; it took place in Schloss Vinsebeck, Stenheim, Germany. •
VB55 (2005) featured one hundred women standing still in Berlin's
Neue Nationalgalerie for three hours, each woman oiled from the waist up and wearing nothing but a pair of pantyhose. •
VB61, Still Death! Darfur Still Deaf? (2007), one of Beecroft's most politically engaged performances, was presented the
52nd Venice Biennale. It involved "approximately 30
Sudanese women with their skin painted, lying face-down on a white canvas on the ground, simulating dead bodies piled on top of one another", representing the genocide in
Darfur, Sudan. •
VB65 (March 2009) performance at
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC) in Milan, Italy, featured a "
Last Supper" of twenty African immigrant men, dressed formally in suits (some without shoes), drinking water, eating chicken and brown bread without cutlery. It highlighted the relationships among body, sculpture, and an
iconographical reference to the nearby ruins of
Pompeii. The models were staged near
marble sculpture statues and the stone was in various states including polished, rough, and in blocks and slabs. For the same event, Beecroft placed models both black and white on the shelves next to Louis Vuitton bags in a "human alphabet". In 2007 the Louis Vuitton company apologized to Dutch graphic designer Anthon Beeke for mimicking his "Naked Ladies Alphabet" design without his consent. In 2018, Beecroft and
Kim Kardashian collaborated on a series of nude photos of Kardashian that were displayed on social media for the release of Kardashian's perfume, which had a "Kardashian body-shaped bottle". In 2025, Beecroft directed the premiere of
Ennio Morricone's only operatic work,
Partenope, at the
Teatro di San Carlo in
Naples. ==Collaborations with Kanye West==