"Forbiddistan" is a coinage by Sebastian Bieniek—who regards this invented word as a work of art—and he resides in what was once the capital of Germany and is now the capital of Forbiddistan: Berlin. The artist, who considers only political art to be true art, believes that artists must be political; they must engage—and have always engaged—with the world around them, rather than living in an aquarium sealed off fro…

Channel
Sebastian Bieniek
@SebastianBieniek
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
337subscribers
-2 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001178524995 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @SebastianBieniek |
| Created | 10 December 2017 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 11 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 11 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/SebastianBieniek |
Topic
Art & design — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 22 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept 2026, 12:36 | 337 | -1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 22:37 | 338 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 21:33 | 339 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:51 | 339 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 4 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 14 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
„German Angst“, photo by Sebastian Bieniek. From the art series „Germany after Corona“. More: www.bieniek.at #SebastianBieniek #Bieniek #GermanAngst #BieniekGermany #Kunst
Sebastian Bieniek - a runaway drift - song Born in the shadows where the borders shift A child of the concrete, a runaway drift Moved to Berlin when the wall hit the floor Looking for light through a cracked open door At Kunsthaus Tacheles, the anarchists screamHe painted his eyes to remember the dreamWith lipstick and charcoal, he shattered the lensWhere the true mask begins and the fake reality ends Sebastian Bie…
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT BEFORE CORONA PEOPLE STARTED THEIR DAY WITH A LOOK TROUGH THE WINDOW TO SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL THE WORLD IS AND AFTERWARDS TO THE SMARTPHONE TO CHECK WHETHER THE WORLD STILL EXISTS OR NOT? Textartwork by Sebastian Bieniek, 23.06.2026. Oil and acrylic on board. 59 x 49 cm. From the „Dollar Green Series“ More: Bieniek.at
My biggest fu*k you to all governments on earth! Believe it or not: I‘m coming for you, one after the other, and will get you all. Dead or alive. Sebastian Bieniek, 30.06.2026 Video: Hannah Arendt More: Bieniek.at
Everything that a State is and owns was once illegally taken by Force and Arms. So how can a State be Legal? From the „Dollar Green“ series of Textpaintings by Sebastian Bieniek, 2026. Title: „The White Paper of an Anarchist“. Oil an acrylic on board, 55 x 64 cm. More: Bieniek.at
"The biggest Mystery to an Artist is the question How do I sell my Art", Sebastian Bieniek, 18.06.2026. Painting, oil on canvas. More: Bieniek.at
The saddest thing is that he has no idea how ridiculous he looks posting this without a picture of Sebastian Bieniek with 20 years too More: Bieniek.at
It‘s hard and hurtful only to be judged by the beauty of my person and body and the genius of my art. How would you feel? Would you say: it could be worse or lets do a revolution? More Beauty: Bieniek.at #sebastianbieniek #bieniek #revolution #bieniek #mostbeautifulartistalive
NO WORDS can describe the deepness and beauty of this painting to me. I’m so speechless when looking at it and can’t believe that I’m the painter myself. Do you know another artist who’s so impressed by the genius of his own work? If so please wrote the name in the comments. BTW, can you read the text, or can your AI do so? IT`S IMPORTANT, because it’s my first work from my NEW ANTI AI artworks series colled Antiai…
🚨 THE ULTIMATE ART HEIST OR TOTAL GENIUS? 🎨🗑 You won't believe what this artist found in a dumpster at a famous Berlin gallery in 1999! When the exhibition of legendary conceptual artist Sol LeWitt ended at KW Berlin, workers literally started throwing his famous sculpture "Cube Without A Corner" straight into the trash container. Sebastian Bieniek couldn’t believe his eyes, intercepted the workers, and rescued the m…
A priest whose face is expanded and simultaneously united by another face. Instead of being lost in this unnatural constellation, the opposite occurs. The eyes are more focused, and the figure is more present. One has the impression that the person only found themselves through the second face and only thereby became what they are. A mystical fascination emanates from the painting "Threeeye No. 5" by Sebastian Bienie…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @SebastianBieniek. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Mentions
Named by 45 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it. The 24 listed below are the most frequent namers; the rest are counted above but not each listed.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
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A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 11 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Sebastian Bieniek” (@SebastianBieniek), 337 subscribers as measured 11 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/SebastianBieniek.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.