A GRAPHIC artwork which encourages visitors to pose for a photo with ISIS terrorist Jihadi John waiting to behead them has caused outrage.

The installation, dubbed Phantom Pain, is part of an exhibition at the Gogbot art and music festival in the Netherlands.

It features a life-sized image of the crazed killer on a wooden panel next to a kneeling victim in an orange jumpsuit moments before execution.

Those visiting the exhibit are invited to put their heads through a hole cut in the board and pose beside the sick fanatic.

It costs between £6 and £11.50 to visit the festival in the Dutch city of Enschede.

Anne Bothmer, 22, created the artwork and said she wanted to give Europeans a taste of what it’s actually like to be impacted by ISIS.

But it has led to a huge backlash.

Arjan Brouwer, a politician from the Democratic Platform Enschede party said: "We call urgently upon the mayor to act and remove this element of Gogbot immediately from the event.

"This picture of genocide does not belong at this event and needlessly confronts our inhabitants and children with terrorism, human suffering and traumatic experiences which they went through in the country they fled from."

However, the artist has defended her work.

Ms Bothmer said: "As a spectator of these attacks we do not want to experience it, but we want to be part of it. The overarching tone of the messages within the aftermath amplifies a feeling of collective victimisation by European citizens.

"However, in comparison there were only a few who were really present at the attacks and the rest of Europe only perceived them through cinematic and photographic imagery."

The organisers of the festival have been approached for comment.

Jihadi John, real name Mohammed Emwazi, was a young British Arab believed to be the person seen in several horrific beheading videos filmed in 2014 and 2015 in Iraq and Syria.

The 27-year-old - part of a gang of British killers - butchered multiple victims, including aid worker Alan Henning, who was from Salford, Greater Manchester.

Jihadi John was killed in a drone strike in November 2015.

Thousands of bodies exhumed from macabre burial sites in Syria could be among his victims.