31.10.2015 Escaping from Syria has led Mohammad Sannid to "Schloss Bröllin". On October 27, Kunstasyl took a side trip to the cultural enclave, located in Brandenburg. Here, people who got away from Syria, have found a temporary home.

Mohammad…

27.10.2015 Wir fahren nach Brollin -

We are going to Broellin

24.10.2015 Ich beginne mit einfachen Worten: jeder fragt sich, ob Aymen sich verändert hat. | Je commencerais par des mots simples: tout le monde se demande que Aymen a changé.

23.10.2015 The doors would slide shut, its elastics like clenched lips, a blink of an eye and outside Zineta would cry for her friend and maybe over her own life.

21.10.2015 The second Repair Café started in the Cathedral downstairs, a new place for workshops, concerts, performance ..ETC

20.10.2015 Every Thuesday the friends of knitting and crocheting gather together in the common room of daHEIM. The round table is open to anyone: neighbours, friends, residents .... everybody is welcome to join. The knitting pieces are growing by…

16.10.2015 We're sitting on the edge of their beds in room 12. The Haziti room.

13.10.2015 Abd Elrahman started embroidery with a happy face and focus.

12.10.2015 REFUGEES IN ARTS & EDUCATION

"Wie werden die Themen Flucht und Migration aktuell in der Berliner Kulturellen Bildung gelebt und verhandelt?

Im Juni 2015 fanden im Podewil Berlin sowie in drei Berliner Flüchtlingsunterkünften die…

06.10.2015 "How to work a hat in rounds: cast on 88 stitches, knit a couple rows of ribbing (k2, p2 or k1, p1) - or skip those (after all, one needs to know how to purl stitches to do that …). Then, knit in stockinette for about 15 cm or until…

05.10.2015 All of a sudden you are gone.

05.10.2015 In room 111 Börek and Salat with Feta cheese are being served. 9 o'clock is not best time for a visit daHEIM. Too early if one likes to get acquainted with the people who are the heart of the project.

Christina Schwarzer, CDU-member of…

29.09.2015 Die Kommode hatte uns ziemlich lange beschäftigt...

27.09.2015 For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.

The same is true of the laugh. […] Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors."1

09.09.2015 He had waited in patience for a long week until he found someone to help with his project

07.09.2015 We still refer to rooms 10 and 11 as "Khaled's room".

28.08.2015 "Last night - my head and teeth hurt so much because of that workshop." Khaled's remark, followed by the movement of his hand when caressing the left side of his face, is alarming.

24.08.2015 Dated August 14th. KUNSTASYL is registered as KUNSTASYL e.V. (KUNSTASYL association), case VR 34284 B by Charlottenburg District Court

17.08.2015 It’s too simple to say what is the problem or what is wrong - the world has millions of known problem; but the real problem is that the extent remains the same in different eras of evolution.

14.08.2015 Fatime started the day wondering her surprise prepared by Loreen our guest of the picnic.

13.08.2015 How does one translate a text about oneself?

Maybe by treating one's self as a stranger?

12.08.2015 The Londoner Lena Garrett travelled with us on KUNSTASYLtours during the artfestival 48-houres-Neukölln. Two weeks later she visited KUNSTASYL and spent an afternoon daHEIM.

11.08.2015 In a sunny day after Fuad, Zain and Ali had a shower under “Made in Aymen Dusche” to reduce the heat and enjoy the day, Aymen constructed KUNSTASYL flag.

04.08.2015 daHEIM. The colourful garden shines. The first guests appear on time for the picnic. They fill the buffet with the food and drinks they brought along. Everything looks beautiful, carefully chosen and prepared. „May we go „in too?“, asks a…

04.08.2015 17:51/3.8. That was it. Dakel had sent me the message with whatapp.

03.08.2015 We accompany Dachil and Raffa at the march of remembrance from Alexanderplatz to Brandenburger Tor

01.08.2015 Seit einigen Wochen schneidet Mohamed Firas nicht mehr nur informell die Haare von Freunden und Heimbewohnern, sondern ganz offiziell als Praktikant im Frisiersalon Orient Style in der der Brückenstraße 1c.

23.07.2015 Im TS vom 23.7.2015 erscheinen zwei Veröffentlichungen zu KUNSTASYL

22.07.2015 Astrid Alexander produced a feature about Mohamed Firas for RBB Kulturradio.

16.07.2015 After two weeks of KUNSTASYL tours at 48Hours NEUKÖLLN

09.06.2015 The signs on all resident's room doors indicate the rooms square meter and the number of roommates. No name.

07.06.2015 ... in the doorway to our yard a woman fell off her bicycle. She gashed her knees and skinned the palms of her hands.

The home's façade shimmers rosy in the evening light. Melisa annunciates in a wedding dress...

31.05.2015 Abd Elrahmann, Mohamed Firas, Hameed, and Dakel were invited to meet with Manuela Schwesig, the German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. This was to mark the launch of the Federal Government's new…

29.05.2015 In the light of the setting sun the building had a shimmering rose. For a moment, even this tattered building had its beauty. To experience it, you have to be patient though and to stay out for a long time.

25.05.2015 This is dedicated to Gazi, Endrit, and Bashkim who would turn their words - "Tomorrow no eat - but work" - into action the very next morning. When the sun set, their flower pot "Heilbronn" took form.

22.05.2015 This website was built as a stage and a soundboard for everyone engaged with the idea of KUNSTASYL.

19.05.2015 Ramiza, rehearsing the catwalk, Nour driving the car, and the Koch family orders a dresser "Made in KUNSTASYL" for their bathroom.

17.05.2015 I wonder whether he thought of hallucinating when seeing me at 8:40 am at his desk in a velveteen blue nightgown with hiking boots, asking for the toilette key and only three minutes later for a refreshing cup of instant coffee.

16.05.2015 It is so easy to lure an artist into destruction - one only has to ask: "Define art, artist!"

The questioner may be a curious human being or a researcher, someone asking a baker the same question: "Define backing bread, baker!" or maybe…

05.05.2015 The kitchen is now where the washing machines have been; the washing machines were moved to the former storage room behind the security desk.

30.04.2015 It was right after we had watched the planes in the sky.

30.04.2015 was Mohamed Firas' answer when I asked him about his father's neighborhood in Damaskus.

26.04.2015 oder "... und was macht ihr mit dem Müll?"

23.04.2015

23.04.2015 "Kevin, how many people did you see today?"

21.04.2015 Aymen is standing in the pit of the planned playground area, squinting in the sun - half irritated, half amused.

14.04.2015 He would stand the wait, until he would finally get the attention he had asked for. It's late in the day and chilly.

14.04.2015 With the Marlboro man's dignity Shaban walks across the deserted field in front of the asylum towards the construction trailer. The cable drum is unreeled, the Flex grinder is ready to use.