Martha Jungwirth, Threatening, yet cheerful (Bedrohlich, aber heiter), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag
Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress
Martha Jungwirth, Threatening, yet cheerful (Bedrohlich, aber heiter), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress
Maurizio Nannucci, Let's talk about art, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, 2024, flag
Sophia Pompéry, CLOSE TO THE WIN(D), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, flag
Sophia Pompéry, CLOSE TO THE WIN(D), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition
Copyright: Sophia Pompéry
Erwin Wurm, LIFE, DEEP, DOPE, HOPE, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Bad Gastein, 2024, flags
Photo: Selector Marx / @selectormarxphoto
Martin Grandits, I hate myself (Bad Gastein), 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition
Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress
Olaf Nicolai, MATCH, 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition
Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress
Miriam Jonas, FLÜGGE, 2024, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition
Photo: Rudolf Strobl, 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
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
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 2), 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
Erwin Wurm, LIFE, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag
Peter Jellitsch, Blacked Out Flora, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Photo: Rudolf Strobl, Copyright: museum in progress
Christian Robert-Tissot, Untitled (I want nothing), 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Stubenbrücke, flag
Eva Schlegel, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Shilpa Gupta, Untitled, 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
Maurizio Nannucci, Let's talk about art, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Laure Prouvost, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2020–21/2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Haleh Redjaian, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Christian Eisenberger, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, Jewish Museum Vienna, flag
Mounir Fatmi, Technologia, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Photo: Günter Mik, 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
Thomas Bayrle, Einkaufen (Shopping), 1991/2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Hans Schabus, Fahne zeigen, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Photo: Claudia Posekany, Copyright: museum in progress, Courtesy: Galerie Krinzinger
Eva Schlegel, Untitled, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag edition
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
Samson Kambalu, GREEN DOG EARED CRYPTO NATION, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Delusion, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Photo: Günter Mik, Copyright: museum in progress
Agnieszka Kurant, Flag of Stateless Nations, 2023, raising flags, museum in progress, flag
Sarah Ortmeyer, GRANDMASTER, 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: Günter Mik, 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, museum in progress, flag editions
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 2024, the project can be experienced on Vienna's Stubenbrücke, in Ladakh (India) at an altitude of 3600 meters as part of the sā festival (June 2024), and in Bad Gastein at sommer.frische.kunst (since 12 July 2024).
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 2024 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.
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, Swiss Embassy in Austria and Zugkraft. Hotel partner: Hotel Altstadt. Media partners: DATUM, DIE FURCHE and wienlive.
