Category: 2025
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Choking the Oracle, 2025, Mikołaj Sobczak
From: Ludwig Forum, Aachen (DE)To: IKOB, Eupen (BE) The flag Choking the Oracle by Mikołaj Sobczak depicts an ambivalent scene. One might see a supplicant who, upon hearing a prophecy about his future from the oracle, falls into a fit of fury. But at the same time, the image rather seems to portray two lovers engaged in…
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Anonymous Missed Connections, 2025, Dean Sameshima
from: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE)to: La Châtaigneraie, Flémalle (BE)Dean Sameshima’s Anonymous Portrait works, an ongoing series of painted and printed compositions that the artist began in 2018. Inspired by the first page of John Rechy’s 1977 novel The Sexual Outlaw —which the author dedicated‘to all the anonymous outlaws’—Sameshima’s series references titles from the artist’s personal library of queer,…
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The Great Misunderstanding, 2025,Helena
from: Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL)to: Art au Centre, Liege (BE) Pigeons are our oldest companion species. Since we first domesticated them more than 10.000 years ago pigeons have been considered symbols of peace, war heroes, hunted pests, and sacred messengers. Once our technological advancements substituted the pigeon´s service, we discarded them. Now the pigeon roams…
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Condition: Elsewhere, 2025, Cristiana Cott Negoescu
from: Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster (DE)to: Greylight Projects, Heerlen (NL)This flag by Cristiana Cott Negoescu reimagines the iconography of sovereignty, fortune, and shared codes of value. At its center is a blindfolded Fortuna—Roman goddess of fate—framed within a shield. Traditionally tied to power, defence, and national identity, such heraldic forms are here repurposed, not as declarations…
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Underdog, 2025, Huize You
from: IKOB, Eupen (BE)to: Ludwig Forum, Aachen (DE) description: Underdog by Huize You is a digital collage of deconstructed football jerseys of the AS Eupen, the local football club of the German-speaking community of Belgium. The football jerseys were donated to the artist after they were damaged in the regional floods in 2021, and reworked by…
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Untitled, 2025, Kaya Erdinç
from: Greylight Projects, Heerlen (NL)to: Jester, Genk (BE) The flag A silent sjtil is inspired by a story written for a recent exhibition at Listen Gallery (Glasgow, UK) and a presentation at Greylight Projects (Heerlen, NL). The work envisions a near future marked by data scarcity, where sending artwork abroad has become increasingly difficult, raising…
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Sand Landscape #1, 2025, Sophie Langohr
from: Art au Centre, Liege (BE)to: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (DE) The series “Sand Landscapes” is based on 17th-century paintings borrowed from the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Sophie Langohr disrupts these idyllic views by drawing inspiration from the folk art of sand bottles, goodies for tourists that captures the memory of exotic…
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No, no we have our name., 2025, Anthony Ngoya
from: Jester, Genk (BE)to: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (DE) In the background is a family photograph, where the wax patterns on the garments worn by my relatives create a textile landscape rich with memory. Layered over this are images of red blood cells symbols of blood and transmission infusing the composition with organic density.A 1753 engraving depicting…
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Anaglyph Flag, 2023, Tom Bogaert
from: IKOB Museum, Eupento: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren Tom Bogaert created a stereoscopic flag based on a collage he made using the German, Dutch, and Belgian flags as raw material. 3D red-cyan glasses are recommended to view his flag correctly. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered coloured images, one for each eye. When viewed through the…
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Sweat Dreams, 2023, Mikail Koçak
from: Art au Centre, Liègeto: Greylight Projects, Heerlen Mikail Koçak (1989, Malmedy) lives and works in Liège (BE).A sometimes obsolete avatar, brandished daily around the world by radical nationalists, the flag is here reduced to the rank of a household towel. Doesn’t this mischievous diversion evoke the other side of the coin behind the symbol…