TeCHnology

An art collective has hacked into the controversial Bührle Collection exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich museum. It replaced written information accessible to visitors by QR code with critical comments about the provenance of the works on display.

Four QR codesExternal link were manipulated, said museum spokesman Björn Quellenberg, confirming a reportExternal link on Tuesday by Swiss public radio, SRF.

These codes do not take readers to the provenance research carried out by the Bührle Foundation, but to the online site of the KKKK art collective, which hacked them. The hacking was discovered at the weekend.