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Lily van der Stokker

List of Rags

07.09.2024 - 15.03.2025 ,
Museum Brandhorst

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Theresienstraße 35 a
80333 München

As part of the "Museum Brandhorst Flag Commission", four flags designed by Lily van der Stokker will be presented in front of the museum. The artist became known for her installations and murals, which are based on decorative imagery from everyday life and private living spaces and scrutinise them for gender and identity implications. Supposedly sweet decorations are contrasted with cryptic texts.
Lily van der Stokker has not created an ornamental design with integrated text for the Museum Brandhorst's flags - as one might expect from her - but literally places a list of German and English words relating to drugstore items, clothing, household objects, physical ailments (and insults) in the public space. With the "List of Rags", she has created a site-specific work on the border between the Kunstareal and Maxvorstadt, between the museum and residential neighbourhoods. Terms such as "rags", "stomach cramps" and "poo nappy", which we associate with the spheres of the private and intimate and with caring and housework, now appear on the museum's flagpoles. Lily van der Stokker's 'visual poetry' thus creates a moment of irritation for museum visitors and passers-by by emblazoning terms from the private sphere in the outdoor space.
With the "Flag Commission", Museum Brandhorst goes beyond the boundaries of the exhibition space and presents specially commissioned works of art in the neighbourhood of the Maxvorstadt district. Normally, the flags on the corner of Türkenstrasse and Theresienstrasse advertise the museum's current exhibitions. But for the "Flag Commission", artists use them as outdoor spaces to create interventions in public space.

Lily van der Stokker (*1954) lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. Since the late 1980s, she has been creating decorative murals and installations composed of ornaments, furniture, bright colours, everyday objects and handwritten texts.

Last edited on 07.12.2024

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