KURT COBAIN - KURT'S ASHES 'TO BE SMOKED'

German artist Natascha Stellmach claims to be in possession of Kurt Cobain's ashes, which she says she will smoke as the finale to her exhibition.

It was reported last June that the NIRVANA frontman's ashes were stolen from Courtney Love's home in Los Angeles.

Stellmach's five part exhibition is entitled Set Me Free, with a final act which she claims "will release Cobain from the media circus and into the ether", reports Uncut.

When she was asked how she came to acquire the ashes, she said: "That's confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free."

The artist intends to smoke a joint which she claims contains Cobain's remains in the final act of her work entitled Gone.

According to Artworld, the smoking – which will take place at a secret Berlin location - "represents both the completion of the conceptual project and the final act in an exhibition bound to provoke wide public debate".