Brandhorst Flag Commission: Lily van der Stokker
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Just in time for the opening weekend of “Various Others,” Museum Brandhorst presents the third “Flag Commission,” where artists design flags for the poles in front of the museum that were originally intended to carry advertisements. This year, the renowned Dutch artist Lily van der Stokker was invited to participate.
Exhibition info
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Outdoor space
Arthur Fink
Art in the public space
With “Flag Commissions,” Museum Brandhorst presents specially-conceived artworks in the Maxvorstadt neighborhood. The flags by Lily van der Stokker will be on display from September 2024.
Lily van der Stokker
The artist (*1954, lives and works in Amsterdam and New York) has become known for her installations and murals, which are based on decorative imagery from everyday life and domestic spaces and which question their gender and identity-political implications. Supposedly sweet décor is contrasted with subtle texts.
For the flags, van der Stokker has not created drawings with integrated text – as one might expect from her – but instead literally places a list of words revolving around drugstore articles, items of clothing, household objects, physical ailments and insults in the public space.
