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Ohne title, 2025, Katharina Jahnke
from: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (DE)to: Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL)The Cologne-based artist Katharina Jahnke explores how architecture, images, text, ornament, and form shape our perception, our thinking, and our relationship to reality. At the core of her artistic practice is the principle of collage—bringing together image systems from diverse origins and meanings into a cohesive, overarching visual…
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Title, 2025, Alicia Kremser
from: Art au Centre, Liege (BE)to: Greylight Projects, Heerlen (NL)“I made a flag coated with Cyanotype and we installed it on the beach just after the wedding where it was exposed with the sunlight of that day and washed out in the sea. The idea was to document that exact time and place in the…
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Red’s Lounge, 2019, Lola Reynaerts
from: La Châtaigneraie, Flémalle (BE)to: Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster (DE)Lola Reynaerts; “Social media gives us the illusion of closeness, while this connection often remains superficial.With a simple click, we gain access to events happening on the other side of the world. How does this change our perception of the world ?What impact does it have on…
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Ohne Titel, 2013, Katharina Grosse
As the archive exhibition 2025 is hosted by the Kunsthaus NRW Wouter Huis took a dive in to the Kunsthaus collection together with Marchel Schumacher and Elke Kania to look for a work related to the flags made by artists from the Eeregion. In the collection they stumbled on this fabulous flag by Katharina Grosse…
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Feeling closer to all directions, 2023 Marco Godinho
Location: Place de Metz At the crossroads of the main axis of the city center of Luxembourg, where cars, pedestrians and public transport meet, Marco Godinho installs four flags. Each flag is represented by a coloured gradation that corresponds to a natural element (water, fire, wood and metal) and to a specific direction (north, south,…
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Untitled (blue flags), 2023 Julien Hübsch
Location: Cercle Cité | Place d’Armes In 2022, Julien Hübsch worked on a large-scale installation on the Metzeschmelz industrial site in Esch-Sur-Alzette. This vast industrial landscape was once the reason for families from Portugal, Italy and Ex-Yugoslavia to come to Luxembourg to start a new life. The artist digitally fragmented pictures of his onsite installation…
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NEVER EVER, 2023 Reza Kianpour
Location: Casino Luxembourg | 41, rue Notre-Dame Reza Kianpour’s project plays with the idea of attachment and our relationship: to a nationality, to an identity, to a culture, to a community, to a belief… In the manner of a performance, he stages his image in real size to give the illusion of clinging relentlessly to…
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Fest und klar und heiter, 2023 Stina Fisch
Location: Place des Martyrs “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too.” Rose Schneidermann (1911) Inspired by the contrast between the Place des Martyrs that is marked by the old ARBED building reminiscent of Luxembourg’s industrial past, and the traditional rose garden “Rousegäertchen” situated opposite the building, Stina Fisch’s flags illustrate the…
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Brothers and sisters, 2023, Miriam Rosner
Location: Place de Paris “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” Simone Weil (1942) Flags are a nation’s “brand mark” and as such, in history as well as in current times, they have been and can be misused or become subject of positive or negative reinterpretation. They…
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Troop flag, 2023, Sarah Schleich
Location: LUCA – Luxembourg Center for Architecture | 1, rue de la Tour Jacob “Men don’t cry. But they should …” Fascinated by the author Jack Urwin and his book BOYS DON’T CRY where identity and masculinity are thematised, this subject served as the inspiration for Sarah Schleich’s latest series of works. Why are people…