Opening of Ay-O: Rainbow Landscape #2025

Free entry

On Friday 10 January, three colourful art flags will take to the top of Kunsthal Aarhus' sculpture park. The flags are created by the Japanese artist Ay-O who was a central figure in the experimental Fluxus movement of the 1960s and 70s. Ay-O is known for his ‘rainbow happening’ in the Eiffel Tower back in 1987 where a 300 metre long rainbow flag was installed at the top.

→ Flag raising at 3 pm
→ Opening speech by Malene Wagner afterwards

𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗚 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧
Since 2017, the park surrounding Kunsthal Aarhus has been the location for an annual outdoor exhibition of art flags - A Flag is a Piece of Fabric. In 2025, the exhibition is titled Ay-O: Rainbow Landscape #2025 and is realised in collaboration with Tiger Tanuki, run by art historian and curator Malene Wagner.

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Image: Ay-O, Rainbow Vulcano, Silkscreen, 1974 (Malene Wagner collection). Courtesy of the artist & Malene Wagner / Tiger Tanuki.
Image: Ay-O, Rainbow Vulcano, Silkscreen, 1974 (Malene Wagner collection). Courtesy of the artist & Malene Wagner / Tiger Tanuki.