Center for Political Beauty

19/12/2022

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30/09/2021

Pranksters posing as a delivery service won a contract from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to distribute a million campaign flyers - instead sending the leaflets back to the party's offices two days before Sunday's election.

30/09/2021

The activists have targeted far-right politicians for fueling rhetoric against refugees or downplaying Holocaust remembrance.

12/11/2019

“Our artwork deals from its core with this idea: How could Hi**er happen?” – Center for Political Beauty now in The Atlantic!

Theaters, museums, and other venues in Germany are facing pressure from the AfD, raising questions about the extent of artistic freedoms.

16/04/2019

After Björn Höcke called the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin “a monument of shame," an artist built a replica beside the politician's home.

12/04/2019

An artist who built a replica Holocaust memorial next to the home of a far-right politician was the subject of a 16-month criminal inquiry. Prominent figures want to know why.

08/04/2019

As the collective finds itself targeted by the first criminal investigation of its kind against a group of artists in modern German history, their stunt is instead putting the spotlight on the proximity between far-right politics and the public servants.

Art collective likened to ‘terrorist organisation’ by far-right politician Björn Hocke

04/04/2019

Where civil and criminal proceedings have failed, a state prosecutor has stepped in, it emerged Wednesday. The prosecutor’s office in Mr. Höcke’s eastern home state, Thuringia, is investigating the artists on suspicion of “forming a criminal association,” a legal provision known as Paragraph 129, which gives the state far-reaching surveillance rights and is normally applied to criminal groups and suspected extremists.

The artist Philipp Ruch built a section of the Holocaust memorial outside the bedroom window of a far-right politician, Björn Höcke. Now he is the subject of a state investigation.

14/12/2018

The Center for Political Beaty launched a website asking the public to name and shame far-right extremists who marched this summer in Chemnitz, when in fact the page was designed to goad neo-Nazis into searching their own names.

08/12/2018

The far-right extremists thought they got away with rioting in the city of Chemnitz in August, but then they got caught by a group of artists.

07/12/2018

**Honeypot 🍯 **
German Neo-Nazis Fell for Art Project and Outed Themselves.

Far-right extremists in Chemnitz went unidentified after riots this summer. On Wednesday, they learned they’d been ID’d after all.

26/12/2017

Björn Höcke declared Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial a “Monument of Shame.” So a German artist collective built one to scale, right outside his bedroom window.