"Raising flags" is a longterm project by Museum In Progress by Alois Herrmann and Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, displaying flags by more than 30 Artists in various venues. In 2024 the project is shown in Vienna, Stubenbrücke, India 3600 m above sea level in Ladakh and at “sommer.frische.kunst” in Bad Gastein, Austria.

artists : Thomas Bayrle, Minerva Cuevas, Shilpa Gupta, Peter Jellitsch, Miriam Jonas, Martha Jungwirth, Gerhard Kaiser, Samson Kambalu, Peter Kogler, Agnieszka Kurant, Jonathan Meese, Maurizio Nannucci, Olaf Nicolai, Sophia Pompéry, Haleh Redjaian, Christian Robert-Tissot, Eva Schlegel und Erwin Wurm

In this context, Sophia Pompéry created "Close to the wind". The term  originates from the nautical world and means to take the wind as much from the front as possible. If you sail too close to the wind, the sails start to kill. They flutter like a flag on a mast; in a broader sense, the phrase means to take a risk, to be in danger, to defy the odds, to be on the brink (e.g. of ruin). The expression is often used to describe the aggressive course of a company. „CLOSE TO THE WIN(D)“ can therefore also be seen in an economic context. This is, of course, about the winnings, about profit. - But is growth possible without losses? The banner is an experiment that exposes the much-vaunted motto to the forces at work. - „Close to the wind“, not only in sports.