Front Deutscher Äpfel
Satirical Organization / Anti-fascist / Satirizes right extremist parties / Subdivided into numerous sub-groups / Former and existing right extremist organizational structures style
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Based in Leipzig, Germany
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2004
How to become a nationalist popstar (2018), Boskopismis (2005), Untitled (2018)
After an increase of neo-Nazi rallies, the Front Deutscher Äpfel (the Front of German Apples) was founded in 2004 as an organization intended to satirize and combat fascism by mimicking the public image, aesthetics, and discourse of right-wing extremist parties in ways causing an unsettling, puzzling effect. In the early years, the Front targeted the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD). Dressed in black, with red armbands and banners emblazoned with an apple, the Front propagates the need to maintain the purity of the German fruits, worshiping the apple as the most emblematic German crop. The Front fights against the infiltration of the German agriculture by alien species and calls for the deportation of tropical fruits such as bananas. At AB6, the Front Deutscher Äpfel will present a performance based on a manual explaining how to produce a local division of the group and a nationalist popstar.
#apple #purity #satire #trolling #publicimage
photos: Nysos Vasilopoulos, 6th Athens Biennale 2018 ANTI
Installation, performance, video
Boskopismus, 2005
Video, 15'
Untitled, 2018
Video
Courtesy of Front Deutscher Äpfel
With the kind support of Goethe-Institut Athen