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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Danish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork told to repay funding

A woman stands in front of an empty frame hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark
The museum put the new artworks on display, but when Haaning declined to return the money, it took legal action. Photograph: Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Getty Images

A Danish artist who pocketed large sums of money lent to him by a museum – and submitted empty frames as his artwork – has been ordered by a court to repay the funds.

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.

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