raising flags

Artists

Texts

Raising Flags – Hanno Millesi
raising flags – Art in Motion – Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl
Raising the Flag – Nature and Appearance of a Medium – Alois Herrmann

Curators

Cooperations

Jonathan Monk, WEST WIND, 2025, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Jonathan Monk, WEST WIND, 2025, raising flags, museum in progress, Belvedere 21, Sculpture Garden, flag

Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien

Jitish Kallat, Adrift Signs (I require a pilot), 2025, four nautical flags, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Jitish Kallat, Adrift Signs (Keep clear of me. I am on fire and carrying dangerous cargo), 2025, four nautical flags, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Jitish Kallat, Adrift Signs (I am carrying dangerous goods), 2025, four nautical flags, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Jitish Kallat, Adrift Signs (I require medical assistance), 2025, four nautical flags, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

raising flags, museum in progress, Paris, 2025, flags

Photo: Alois Herrmann

raising flags, museum in progress, Paris, 2025, flags

Photo: Alois Herrmann

raising flags, museum in progress, Paris, 2025, flags

Photo: Alois Herrmann

raising flags, museum in progress, Ahungalla, Sri Lanka, 2025, flags

Photo: Raki Nikahetiya

raising flags, museum in progress, Ahungalla, Sri Lanka, 2025, flags

Photo: Raki Nikahetiya

raising flags, museum in progress, Ahungalla, Sri Lanka, 2025, flags

Photo: Ronald Jaklitsch

Anna Jermolaewa, Bag-Flag (Red, White, Blue), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Anna Jermolaewa, Bag-Flag (Red, White, Blue), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Anna Jermolaewa, Bag-Flag (Red, White, Blue), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Anna Jermolaewa, Bag-Flag (Red, White, Blue), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Maurizio Nannucci, Let's talk about art, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, 2024, flag

Erwin Wurm, LIFE, DEEP, DOPE, HOPE, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, 2024, flags

Photo: Selector Marx / @selectormarxphoto

Sophia Pompéry, CLOSE TO THE WIN(D), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, flag

Pablo Chiereghin, White Flag, 2024, performance, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein

Photo: Selector Marx / @selectormarxphoto

Eva Schlegel, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

raising flags, museum in progress, Ladakh, 2024, flags

Photo: Ayan Biswas

Christian Robert-Tissot, Untitled (I want nothing) and Minerva Cuevas, The Future was Yesterday, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Ladakh, 2024, flags

Photo: Ayan Biswas

Grazia Toderi, Red Flags (flag 2), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Ladakh, 2024, flag

Photo: Ayan Biswas

Martin Grandits, I hate myself, 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition

Olaf Nicolai, MATCH, 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, flags

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Jonathan Meese, ERZFLAGGE DE K.U.N.S.T. DE LARGEUS! (KUNSTDEUTSCHLAND ERZKLÄRWERKT ALLE(S) IN DIE TOTALSTZUKUNFT, YEAH!), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Miriam Jonas, FLÜGGE (Fledgling), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Sophia Pompéry, CLOSE TO THE WIN(D), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition

Martha Jungwirth, Threatening, yet cheerful (Bedrohlich, aber heiter), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Grazia Toderi, Red Flags (flag 4), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Grazia Toderi, Red Flags (flag 1), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Erwin Wurm, DEEP, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Erwin Wurm, LIFE, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Christian Robert-Tissot, Untitled (I want nothing), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Christian Robert-Tissot, Untitled (Ich will nichts), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Minerva Cuevas, Die Zukunft war gestern (The Future was Yesterday), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Minerva Cuevas, El futuro fue ayer (The Future was Yesterday), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag

Photo: Günter Mik, Copyright: museum in progress

Thomas Bayrle, Einkaufen (Shopping), 1991/2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Saskia Pintelon, PIGS CAN FLY., 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Maurizio Nannucci, Let's talk about art, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Laure Prouvost, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Hans Schabus, Fahne zeigen (Flying the flag), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Agnieszka Kurant, Flag of Stateless Nations, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Shilpa Gupta, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Christian Eisenberger, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Jewish Museum Vienna, flag

Mounir Fatmi, Technologia, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Eva Schlegel, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Gerhard Kaiser, Zone West, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Sun Xun, Movement is always at rest, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Peter Jellitsch, Blacked Out Flora, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Haleh Redjaian, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Samson Kambalu, GREEN DOG EARED CRYPTO NATION, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Delusion, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Günter Mik, Copyright: museum in progress

Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2020–21/2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Maureen Kägi, Untitled (Cognitive dissonance. I chose to follow a deer’s trail), 2022/23, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

Sarah Ortmeyer, GRANDMASTER, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag

Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress

Christian Robert-Tissot, Untitled (Fuck the context), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition

Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress

John Gerrard, Petro National (United States of America) #8/196, 2022, digital mip, raising flags, museum in progress, WebGL, rendered in real time, screenshot

Peter Kogler, Untitled (globe), 2023, digital mip, raising flags, museum in progress, video loop, screenshot

Pablo Chiereghin, White Flag, 2023, video, digital mip, raising flags, museum in progress, video still

Cao Shu, 404, 2023, video, digital mip, raising flags, museum in progress, video still

Kathrin Stumreich, Philip Leitner, Chipland, 2023, digital mip, raising flags, museum in progress, digital sculpture, screenshot

raising flags, 2023-2024, museum in progress, flag editions

raising flags. Signals of Art in Public Spaces, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Köln, 2025, Cover, Jonathan Monk

raising flags. Signals of Art in Public Spaces, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Köln, 2025, raising flags 06, Christian Eisenberger

raising flags. Signals of Art in Public Spaces, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Köln, 2025, raising flags 28, Grazia Toderi

raising flags. Signals of Art in Public Spaces, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Köln, 2025, raising flags 20, Shilpa Gupta

raising flags is a long-term project by museum in progress, that has been realised at various locations since 2023, including virtual exhibition spaces online (www.mip.at/en/digital-mip/about) and media spaces in newspapers and magazines. In addition to Vienna's Stubenbrücke (currently featuring Jonathan Monk), the project was showcased in 2024 in Ladakh, India, at the sā Biennale at an altitude of 3,600 metres (June 2024) and in Bad Gastein as part of sommer.frische.kunst (summer 2024). In 2025, a presentation was held in Ahungalla, Sri Lanka, in collaboration with one world foundation and Raki Nikahetiya.

Many works of the project were realised as editions by museum in progress, see: www.mip.at/en/shop/raising-flags-editions.

The first project phase of raising flags, which began on 1 May 2023, was titled "Nation flags of Ideas" and dealt with questions of social coexistence in challenging times. museum in progress has reclaimed a place for art, the Stubenbrücke, which for many years was characterised by the lemur heads of Franz West. Along the Vienna River to Oskar Kokoschka-Platz, the public space was made visible as an art zone.

(Video: Roman Hansi, Tobias Gstaltner, Lukas Radosztics)

The second part of the ﬂag project started in August 2023 and questioned "The essence of wind and the wind of change". raising flags will gradually be on display also at numerous other locations. Institutions, companies, but also private individuals who have the means to display a flag in a publicly visible way are invited to participate in the project. Even after the removal of the flags along the Wien River, approximately three to four artists annually present their flag creations on the Stubenbrücke in Vienna. Furthermore, there are plans to extend "raising flags" to other locations beyond Vienna, Ladakh (India) and Bad Gastein.

In 2025, a publication on the project was released by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, see: www.mip.at/en/shop/raising-flags-catalogue.

raising flags is a project by museum in progress, curated by Alois Herrmann and Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl. Cooperation partner: University of Applied Arts Vienna. The project was made possible by the Art Section of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) with the support of Blue Mountain Contemporary Art (BMCA), Culture Vienna Inner City, Culture Vienna 3rd district and Fahnen-Gärtner. Further support: Barta & Partner Managing Art Insurance, Bildrecht and Swiss Embassy in Austria. Hotel partner: Hotel Altstadt. Media partners: DATUM, DIE FURCHE and wienlive.