(Google Translated) Liljevalch's benches were designed by the art gallery's architect Carl Bergsten, but it is the artist Dan Wolgers who has made them famous.

(Google Translated) Liljevalch's benches were designed by the art gallery's architect Carl Bergsten, but it is the artist Dan Wolgers who has made them famous. Before a group exhibition at Liljevalch's in the autumn of 1992, in which Dan Wolgers would participate, he - as his only contribution - removed two of the art gallery's benches and sold them at Stockholm's Auktionsverk. The whole thing was a protest against the low exhibition fees that artists were offered by the country's art institutions. According to Dan Wolger's calculations, the rather modest sum from the sale of the benches would correspond to a reasonable compensation for his participation in Liljevalchs. He was reported to the police by private individuals, received a suspended sentence and a 60-day fine. When the letter with the court decision and payment card arrived, he sold it unopened to a collector and thus earned the fine together. Liljevalchs bought back the benches and showed them at the exhibition to a very interested audience. https://liljevalchs.se/butiken/tandstickor-banken/ https://liljevalchs.se/butiken/tandstickor-banken/ Edit: Apparently, a matchbox with an illustration of the benches can now be purchased in the museum's gift shop.