Pay what you're paid.
Maria Kling · Original Simulation, aluminium prints
Edition of 20 · 30 images · September 2026
These prints are priced at twenty hours. The buyer supplies the rate.
Not the hours the work took to make. Twenty hours of the buyer's own working life, whatever an hour of it happens to be paid.
Every buyer gives the same twenty hours. Only the money differs, and that difference is the subject.
Enter what you earned over the past year and the hours you work in an average week, paid and unpaid. It returns an approximate hourly rate and what twenty hours of it costs.
It calculates in your browser. No income, no hours, nothing you type is transmitted, stored or seen by anyone, including the artist.
The full text. Where the forty-hour week comes from, why unpaid hours are counted, what the twenty hours are not, and how a sale works.
Deutsch
Diese Drucke kosten zwanzig Stunden. Den Stundensatz liefern Sie.
Nicht die Stunden, die in der Herstellung stecken. Zwanzig Stunden Ihres eigenen Arbeitslebens, ganz gleich, was eine Stunde davon bezahlt wird.
Alle Käuferinnen und Käufer geben dieselben zwanzig Stunden. Nur das Geld dazwischen unterscheidet sich, und dieser Unterschied ist das Thema.
Where the twenty hours go. Of your twenty hours, about five reach the artist and about five reach the gallery. The other ten go into VAT, taxes and material.
How the price is shared. Sale price, less VAT, less materials, and what remains is divided equally, fifty fifty, between the artist and the gallery. Both then pay income tax and social charges on their own share. A work that asks the buyer to disclose what they are paid, while concealing what the people selling it are paid, would be making the argument in one direction only.
The figure is not a price. It is what you offer. Art Claims Impulse confirms each sale, and the work is yours once they accept.
Maria Kling · Original Simulation · Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, September 2026
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