“Memorial for Höcke”, Installation

November, 2017, Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Germany


A group of activists unveiled a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial secretly erected outside the home of a far-right AfD politician who says Germans should stop atoning for Nazi guilt.

Art collective Centre for Political Beauty set up 21 large concrete slabs in a garden next to Björn Höcke’s house, saying it wanted to send a daily reminder of the second world war horrors that led to deaths of 6 million Jewish people.


Leader: Philipp Ruch
Production designer, superviser: Inga Aleknaviciute


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