Artist Marco Evaristti is photographed with his exhibition "And now you care", before the opening in Den Graa Koedby in Copenhagen, Friday, February 28, 2025. Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP ...

A view of the exhibition "And now you care" by the artist Marco Evaristti, before the opening in Den Graa Koedby in Copenhagen, 28 February 2025.Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP ...

Chilean-born Marco Evaristti said he had wanted to raise awareness of the suffering caused by mass meat production with his art installation that opened last week in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A view of the exhibition "And now you care" by the artist Marco Evaristti, before the opening in Den Graa Koedby in Copenhagen, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.

But Evaristti tells The New York Times the piglets were stolen by animal rights activists on Saturday from the exhibit, which was staged at a former butcher’s shop in Copenhagen.

"After four minutes, they come out and it was no pigs," Evaristti told the Times. Copenhagen police have not confirmed whether the disappearance was theft though Evaristti reported it as such ...

A painted iceberg, an artwork, entitled "The Ice Cube Project," by Chilean-born artist Marco Evaristti floats in Ilulissat Fiord, Greenland, on March 24, 2004. Evaristti used 3,000 liters of paint ...

Marco Evaristti, a Chilean artist living in Denmark, told The New York Times this week that the piglets were swiped from his exhibit at a former butcher's shop in Copenhagen on Saturday, March 1.

PIG-IGNORANT Marco Evaristti’s exposé aimed to make a point about animal rights in Denmark. Leigh Kimmins Reporter Published Mar. 5 2025 1:59PM EST Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images ...