A country’s flag has the ability to invoke a disparate set of sentiments: pride, racism and nostalgia among others. Whether being hoisted up a pole, adorning the clothes and faces of sports enthusiasts or being set alight by racial extremists, a nation’s flag is a powerful, yet polarizing symbol.
For this exhibition, a host of designers and artists were given the task of incorporating the German flag into artworks, thereby using this public object as a medium to illustrate a personal story or point of view. The resulting designs, photographs, illustrations, paintings and more provide a timely means of reflection in a year when Germany marks 60 years of the Bundesrepublik and 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Together with Robert Eysoldt, Frank Roesner has contributed 40 large format portraits of people from different areas of the society.
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