Jonathan Monk Limited Company

23.05.25 – 21.09.25 Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1, Vienna, AT

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In his exhibition Limited Company at the Belvedere 21, Jonathan Monk stages an ongoing dialogue between art history, the setting, and personal recollection: a 115-foot printed curtain marks the point of departure for a continually shifting narrative that questions the idea of the classic retrospective and translates it into an exhibition space laid out as an open-ended process. […] In cooperation with museum in progress, a series of flag works titled West Wind and created in connection …

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In his exhibition Limited Company at the Belvedere 21, Jonathan Monk stages an ongoing dialogue between art history, the setting, and personal recollection: a 115-foot printed curtain marks the point of departure for a continually shifting narrative that questions the idea of the classic retrospective and translates it into an exhibition space laid out as an open-ended process. […]

In cooperation with museum in progress, a series of flag works titled West Wind and created in connection with the exhibition are shown as part of the project raising flags. In these works, Monk plays with the format of the Austrian national flag by picking up on iconographic elements and reinterpreting them in Franz West’s signature palette. One flag appears in the gallery as part of a new work dedicated to West; another is installed in the Belvedere 21’s sculpture garden. Four additional flags bring Monk’s strategy of appropriation into the public sphere: flying over the Stubenbrücke, a bridge in downtown Vienna, they are a humorous yet meticulously targeted intervention that extends the exhibition’s vision beyond the bounds of the museum.

Limited Company
raising flags
Curated by Axel Köhne
Assistant Curator: Vasilena Stoyanova

Installation view, Jonathan Monk, Limited Company, 2025, Belvedere 21, Vienna. Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna

Jonathan Monk, WEST WIND, 2025, raising flags, museum in progress, sculpture garden, Belvedere 21

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