Center for Political Beauty

Changing the world
with art

Our subcontractors reveal information on the state of humanity: How do we make life hell for those who benefit from crimes against humanity? How to transport a memorial site from the government district? How to tear down the European walls?

„The actions of the Center for Political Beauty are drastic, they provoke. They are large-scaled productions that set society, politics and the media against each other. Without a fixed stage and a firm ensemble.“

SPIEGEL
"I'm morally horrified!"

Kurt Braatz · Press reviewer of the Krauss Maffei-Wegmann weaponry on the Center for Poltical Beauty
"What was theat time before the CPB? In literature Charlotte Roche was reviewed as a political author. The world of art circled around the metallic-colored million poodle of Jeff Koons, and the most important artistic-political act was Jonathan Meese."

Mely Kiyak

Press

New York Times Migrant’s Funeral in Berlin Highlights Europe’s Refugee Crisis

The Point Aggressive Humanism

Art Net Controversial German Art Collective Buries Deceased Migrants in Berlin

Al Jazeera Srebrenica’s lessons for the United Nations

Guardian Art group removes Berlin Wall memorial in border protest

DailyMail Berlin Wall crosses stolen before anniversary

Washington Post To some, the EU’s deadly border is the new Berlin Wall

Widewalls Connecting Art and Activism

frieze Acting up

BBC The mystery of the Berlin Wall's white crosses

Cafe Babel In the name of aggressive humanism

Goethe Beautiful politics: The highest form of art?

Cormac Walsh Website Pressures German Government to Act on Syrian Child Refugees

DW Holocaust survivors demand help for Syrian refugees

Global Post Artists want to save Syria's children by fostering them in German homes

Ha‘aretz Holocaust survivors call on Germany to take in more Syrian refugees

The Local Activists offer cash for info on tank makers

Global Voices Wanted Posters against the Delivery of Tanks

The Art Newspaper Documenta ignores Kassel's bloody history

AP Memorial of 16,000 shoes blames UN for not preventing genocide

Reuters 15 years after the Srebrenica massacre, artists in Germany build 'Pillar of Shame'

DW The Pillar of Shame

The Guardian What stands in the way of Bosnia reconciliation

Fox News Pillar of Shame: Memorial of 16,000 shoes blames UN for not preventing genocide

Today's Zaman Monument to ensure Bosnian genocide is not forgotten

Le Monde Sous la cendre, un artiste allemand adepte de «la beauté politique»

“One important lesson is freedom of the arts ensuring that politicians can never again be tempted to decide what they define as opportune and worthy of support just to illustrate their policies, while other forms of art are suppressed or prosecuted by state security as is currently the case of the Center for Political Beauty.”

Council for the Arts Germany
„No other German artist group is currently causing more irritations and scandals in the public space.“

ORF
“For quite some time, there has been a distinctive longing for reality in theatre. In their works, art finds a feedback in reality so strong that one is reminded of Jelinek’s bon mot about Schlingensief who ‘threw the facts at those in power as if he were throwing a cake into their face’.”

Tagesspiegel
"The story does not only belong to those who have experienced it. It is impossible to shield them from the impositions of the present. This simple fact has given us the most important and most unpleasant remembrance of the year."

Die ZEIT
"This is not art! It has absolutely nothing to do with it.“

Bazon Brock

„The actions of the Center for Political Beauty are drastic, they provoke. They are large-scaled productions that set society, politics and the media against each other. Without a fixed stage and a firm ensemble.“

SPIEGEL

"I'm morally horrified!"

Kurt Braatz · Press reviewer of the Krauss Maffei-Wegmann weaponry on the Center for Poltical Beauty

"What was theat time before the CPB? In literature Charlotte Roche was reviewed as a political author. The world of art circled around the metallic-colored million poodle of Jeff Koons, and the most important artistic-political act was Jonathan Meese."

Mely Kiyak

“One important lesson is freedom of the arts ensuring that politicians can never again be tempted to decide what they define as opportune and worthy of support just to illustrate their policies, while other forms of art are suppressed or prosecuted by state security as is currently the case of the Center for Political Beauty.”

Council for the Arts Germany

„No other German artist group is currently causing more irritations and scandals in the public space.“

ORF

“For quite some time, there has been a distinctive longing for reality in theatre. In their works, art finds a feedback in reality so strong that one is reminded of Jelinek’s bon mot about Schlingensief who ‘threw the facts at those in power as if he were throwing a cake into their face’.”

Tagesspiegel

"The story does not only belong to those who have experienced it. It is impossible to shield them from the impositions of the present. This simple fact has given us the most important and most unpleasant remembrance of the year."

Die ZEIT

"This is not art! It has absolutely nothing to do with it.“

Bazon Brock