The exhibition »BLACK FLAGS« in Atrium 8+9 of the ZKM presents three artworks that use the motif of the black flag: The installation »Black Flags« (2014) by U.S. choreographer and artist William Forsythe, in which two industrial robots wave black flags with digital precision; the immersive photo and sound installation »Black Flag« (2015) by Spanish concept and performance artist Santiago Sierra, which documents the raising of the black flag as the iconic symbol of the anarchist movement at the geographic North and South Poles; and the video »Ombre indigène [Indigenous Shadow], part 2, Martinique« (2014) by Brussels-based artist Edith Dekyndt, which shows a flag made of black hair.

The exhibition invites us to imagine a future in which we, embedded as we are in a complex ecological system, act more ethically and behave with more consideration.

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Concept: Alistair Hudson
Curated by: Margit Rosen and Philipp Ziegler
Curatorial assistance: Laura Schmidt
Technical project management: Felix Pausch
Scenography: Matthias Gommel

Thanks to Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan and Julian Gabriel Richter