Lawn Centrifuge
15.10.2025
Leaf Print Garden
15.10.2025
Chili Seitz
The flags depict the open sky, which cannot be conquered territorially by humans. The work will be on display in Oulu throughout the summer, 18.5.-28.8.2026.
“Wind and Weather” is part of a public space installation designed by the artist and presented in several countries across Europe. The work consists of flags depicting the sky and clouds in different weather conditions. The flags will be raised up in public flagpoles throughout the art area.
The flags are at the following locations:
– Lyseo, Oulu city center
– Tuiran koulu, Merituuli yksikkö, Toppila
– Tuiran koulu, Tuira
– Myllytullin koulu, Myllytulli
The work is not on display on official flag-flying days.
Art historian Lara Bader writes about Seitz’s work:
According to their function, flags mark affiliations of different kinds as well as special messages. But instead of symbolic motifs, the flags in the installation ‘Wind und Wetter’ (2021) show views of the sky photographed by Chili Seitz.
All similar, but each unique, snapshots of clouds drifting through a blue sky. With the wind, they become moving images. The views contradict the original military- patriarchal gesture of power of showing the flag; after all, they depict what cannot be conquered territorially by humans.
The artist occupies masts that have already been installed and counteracts the hegemonic messages that are otherwise attached at this locationic by showing what is already there. It doesn’t add anything new to the place, but rather draws attention to the always given: wind and weather.
The locations of the wandering installation are always places with expansive views. There, the mostly local identification signs are replaced by views of the sky, the motif of which is familiar to everyone. They don’t exclude anyone; quite the opposite, because the everydayness of the sight marks everyone as a citizen of the world.
Image: Kati Leinonen
Accessibility
The works are located in a built urban environment. The works are accessible via pedestrian routes. The works are mounted on flagpoles and are visible from a distance. Accessibility information for each work can be found on the Atla map service.
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Artist:
Chili Seitz
Chili Seitz is a German artist, living currently in Kiel and Sønderborg at the Baltic Sea. She studied Fine Arts at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, where she completed her B.A. in Sculpture and Installation (2005-2010) and her M.F.A. in Media Art (2010-2012). From 2012 to 2014, she received a postgraduate research grant for artistic development. She has developed conceptually driven artworks since 2012, with a practice that includes installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and site-specific interventions in public space. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in public and private collections. Permanent installations include commissions in Berlin, Kiel, Lübeck and in Gråsten, DK. Seitz has been awarded numerous grants, fundings, prizes, and international residencies in Scotland, Iceland, Denmark, Poland, and Norway. Her ongoing series “intertidal ecographies” builds upon her “archive of immaterial monuments”, exploring ecological narratives and immaterial, often overlooked processes.
In all her work, Seitz offers alternative cartographies—suggesting, for instance, raising flags for the sky or reclaiming the horizon as a place of belonging.
She is known for her thoughtful, process-oriented approach and regularly shares her expertise in educational and interdisciplinary contexts. She is since 2025 faculty at Sønderyjllands Kunstskolen in Sønderborg.
