May 1, 2023–December 30, 2026
raising flags is an ongoing project by museum in progress that has been realised at various locations since 2023, including virtual exhibition spaces online and media spaces in newspapers and magazines. The project is curated by Alois Herrmann and Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl. 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 (Austria) at sommer.frische.kunst (since 12 July 2024).
Participating artists: Thomas Bayrle*, Cao Shu, Pablo Chiereghin, Minerva Cuevas*, Christian Eisenberger*, Mounir Fatmi*, John Gerrard, Martin Grandits*, Shilpa Gupta, Wade Guyton*, Peter Jellitsch*, Miriam Jonas*, Martha Jungwirth, Maureen Kägi*, Gerhard Kaiser*, Samson Kambalu*, Peter Kogler*, Agnieszka Kurant*, Philip Leitner, Jonathan Meese*, Maurizio Nannucci*, Olaf Nicolai*, Sarah Ortmeyer, Saskia Pintelon*, Sophia Pompéry*, Laure Prouvost, Haleh Redjaian*, Christian Robert-Tissot*, Hans Schabus*, Eva Schlegel*, Kathrin Stumreich, Sun Xun*, Chandraguptha Thenuwara*, Grazia Toderi* and Erwin Wurm*.
*The artists marked with an asterisk have each created an edition published by museum in progress for the project.
Martha Jungwirth is the fifth artist presented on the Stubenbrücke in Vienna. Her four flags are titled “Threatening, yet cheerful” (“Bedrohlich, aber heiter”) and are on view until the end of October 2024.
The Austrian writer Hanno Millesi participated in the project with a literary text on raising flags.
The first project phase of raising flags, which began on May 1, 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.
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. 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 cooperation with interested institutions.
raising flags is a project by museum in progress, curated by Alois Herrmann and Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl. Cooperation partners: sā festival in Ladakh and sommer.frische.kunst in Bad Gastein. Media partners: DIE FURCHE and wienlive. Hotel partner: Hotel Altstadt. Support: Bildrecht and Fahnen-Gärtner. Previous partners include: University of Applied Arts Vienna, Art Section of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS), Blue Mountain Contemporary Art (BMCA), Barta & Partner Managing Art Insurance, Culture Vienna Inner City and Culture Vienna 3rd district.
