One began on 21 November 2015 at ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe located in Aarhus, Denmark's second city. The second, to be held at the end of March 2016, was held in Copenhagen by the gallery of the Faurschou Foundation, a private institution of international renown.

This decision follows the Danish parliament’s approval of the law proposal that allows seizing valuables and delaying family reunions for asylum seekers.

- Jens Faurschou - Faurschou Foundation, backs the artist’s decision and regrets that the Danish parliament choses to be in the forefront of symbolic and inhuman politics of todays biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe and the Middle East, instead of being in the forefront of a respectful European solution to solve the acute humanitarian crisis.

- Erlend G. Høyersten, ARoS museum director : ’We don’t as yet have all the facts in place and we await further details. Needless to say, we’re somewhat taken aback. We’re an art museum that on a daily basis strives to achieve a better understanding for human relations, greater insight into cultures, and we welcome critical reflection based on art. Hence we subscribe to many of the same values as Ai Weiwei,’
He adds: ’At this very moment in time, and more than ever before, the people of Europe need cultural institutions to allow space for free thoughts and words. ARoS is an independent institution whose programmes and exhibitions are in no way governed by the power élite as is the case in China, for example. While I profoundly respect his reaction to Danish refugee policy, I think it unreasonable that an entire country and its people should be punished as a result of government policies.’