Take the Money and Run

by Ole Juncker

Biografilm Art & Music

Doc, Italian Premiere

(Denmark / 2025 / 81’)

A Danish museum gives 530,000 kroner to an artist to produce a work physically displaying the annual income of a worker. But he has a different idea: he delivers two empty frames and calls the work “Take The Money and Run”. It is a provocation against the precarious conditions of artists. The gesture becomes viral around the world and divides public opinion. The museum wants their money back, but the artist refuses: returning it, he says, would mean destroying the work. An ironic portrait of an unpredictable man who rewrites the rules of art: is he a crazy con artist or a genius?