

“I encourage other people who have just as miserable working conditions as me to do the same,” he added. “The work of art is that I have taken their money,” the artist told dr.dk. However, Haaning has vowed to keep the cash. The director has said that there is a contract stating that the money will be paid back in full when the exhibition ends. “He stirred up my curatorial staff and he also stirred me up a bit, but I also had a laugh because it was really humoristic,” Lasse Andersson, director of the museum in the city of Aalborg, told the BBC. Both had the aim of highlighting modern capitalism and the drastic difference in the canvas sizes reflects the salary gap between the countries. A post shared by Verena Altenberger works to be recreated were “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income”.
