Frankfurter Hauptschule

On October 18th 2020, the artist collective Frankfurter Hauptschule stole the Beuys sculpture "Capri Battery" from an exhibition in the German city of Oberhausen and brought it to the former German colony of Tanzania as a symbolic act of restitution. From then on the sculpture can be seen there in the permanent exhibition of the ethnological museum Iringa Boma. The museum, which is located in a former military hospital of the German colonial rulers, now displays the "Capri-Battery" alongside traditional objects of craftsmanship of the Hehe tribe. Under the colonial regime, art objects, cultural assets and skulls of Hehe leaders were stolen from Iringa and brought to Germany in inextricable numbers.