Jens Haaning, a conceptual artist whose work focuses on power and inequality, was commissioned in 2021 by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, northern Denmark, to recreate two earlier works that used scores of banknotes to represent average incomes.
Haaning’s 2007 work, An Average Danish Annual Income, displayed krone notes fixed to canvas in a frame, and a second 2011 work about Austrian incomes used euro bills.
The museum, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, had commisioned Haaning to recreate these earlier works and given a loan of 532,549 Danish krone, the equivalent of about $76,400.
In autumn 2021, a Danish museum opened two large crates to inspect two works it had commissioned from the artist Jens Haaning.
But when museum staff pulled out the canvases — a new work the artist had informed the museum was titled Take the Money and Run — the canvases were completely blank.
