10.04.2016 Erneut im Museum, neues Mischen der Farben des Wassers.

Die Schwünge an der Wand - sie werden größer, werden Meer.

Ina dabei, malt das Gesicht von Shengal, die Geschichte ihrer Stadt und ihrer Menschen.

09.04.2016 - a rope is no bridge, but the ripples mount up -

07.04.2016 Am Wochenende soll im Museum die Welle von Hokusai raumhoch an die Wand gebracht werden. Im Hof machen Dachil und barbara daher ein erstes Probemalen - welches ist das richtige Blau und wie malt man eigentlich so eine Welle, dass sie…

01.04.2016 The edge of the bed becomes a linguistic divide. The blanket in the background piles up, as if emotionally agitated. Yassir's story has language fall into images.

24.03.2016 There is a small but firm crease, lifting the scarf right above the crown of her head. It caresses her face in soft waves. She has a question for me: do Europeans usually wear worn-out clothes?

19.03.2016 Serdars Zeichnung ein Wellengrab,

15.03.2016 Valentina was fond of Kimberly Emerson. The American had spent two hours with us at KunstAsyl. Valentina had whipped up a curl in her hair with a "Balkan curler". Hameed, Jasim and Tchatcha had invited her for tea.

13.03.2016 Einmal wieder, einmal weiter wird im Museum gearbeitet.

Mit Zeichnungen werden die Wände fortgeführt beschrieben und Installationen greifen sich Raum.

07.03.2016 The traces of painting, the trails to Europe are not covering rocks but the walls of the exhibition hall. Those engravings arose in a public event during the opening ceremony of "daHEIM: Einsichten in flüchtige Leben / glances over fluid…

06.03.2016 The museum of European cultures and KunstAsyl had invited to the opening event of a four month workshop, dealing with the creation of a mutual living environment for humans with a home and without.

03.03.2016 While on the run, Hameed was forcibly fingerprinted at the Bulgarian border. For a year he lived in Sofia, always in fear of deportation. Three times he was lucky enough to evade the police officers when they wanted to bring him over the…

26.02.2016 Die Spuren der Flucht, die sich im Innersten eingeschrieben haben, werden auf Papier übertragen -

25.02.2016 One year ago Barbara came with KUNSTASYL team and knocked the doors of daHEIM and asked for a meeting to share ideas, Aymen came to my room and asked if I’m speaking English and from Pakistan.

23.02.2016 “KUNSTASYL ist ganz einfach, wir haben keine Regeln, wir teilen einfach nur eine kleine große Idee. Für uns ist niemand ein Flüchtling und niemand ist in das Projekt involviert. Wir sind Menschen, die aus unterschiedlichen Gründen unsere…

19.02.2016 that was the reaction of people over the flag design.

13.02.2016 Muhammad Jasim was born in Afghanistan and grew up in Pakistan. He expierenced the social hardships of an archaic society as his own story early in life. Nelson Mandela became his major role model and inner companion.

09.02.2016 "Why are all architects dressed in black, only Aymen wears a Blaumann*?"

06.02.2016 Feb. 3 my cell phone would beep. Strolling digital letters told me "It is Hameeds birthday today!!!" Then facebook asked me to send birthday wishes to my friend.

02.02.2016

31.01.2016 this was the answer of my father since a decade of time when we asked him to plant something else instead of the olive tree.

23.01.2016 "Nice [Schön] - which can also mean clear or light - may have expressed what the settlers had been hoping for when coming to their new homeland. Dwelling [Hausen] originates from the Saxon word 'hus' and means house."*

22.01.2016 *I don’t know why everyone is saying ‘Flüchtlinge’ and some others say; let’s be honest and not act; it’s ok to say ‘Flüchtlinge’.

22.01.2016 The cathedral turned to be drawing and painting place today, everyone was in his special way an artist.

21.01.2016 Reparieren und kreieren. Repair-Café und KUNSTASYL.

20.01.2016 Repair your broken stuffs or design your own creation! Every third wednesday the REPAIR CAFE takes place between 5.30 pm and 8 pm, daHEIM at KUNSTASYL. You are Welcome!

17.01.2016 HEIMdeutsch poetry - Semantic exercises or linguistic misunderstandings

Inspired by a young Arabian woman, who - when trying to learn German - confused the words pepper and paper

09.01.2016 The cooperation between the museum and the residents at KUNSTASYL started with the Museum Europäischer Kulturen visiting KunstAsyl on December 11, 2015. Our goal is to develop an exhibition over the next six months.

08.01.2016 are students of Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice at the University of Hildesheim. In the context of their seminar they have to analyze a project under the headline "Between art and politics - cultural projects with refugees". The…

07.01.2016 Sacho Amed, 22 years old singer from Syria. After the war and the situation in Syria I came to Europe to protect and save myself from being killed.

07.01.2016 ... and the youngest resident of daHEIM is named Mumina, second daughter of Rihanna and Amir. Mumina was born at december 10th.

07.01.2016 It’s exactly one year when I met Sacho on the way coming to Europe, she is a young singer coming from Syria and now living in Austria. I walked with Sacho on the way to Europe about 8 hours and the temperature was -20° degree.

30.12.2015

26.12.2015 Almost three years ago Milad moved into daHEIM's room 205 as its first resident ever. Back then, the housing at Staakener Strasse was still a first reception facility and Milad was shocked of being in Germany and not in Canada. Human…

22.12.2015

Die Perspektive erweitern

"Wie schafft man eine Gemeinschaft? Diese Frage bearbeitet die Künstlerin Barbara Caveng seit Februar mit den Bewohnern einer Spandauer Flüchtlingsunterkunft. Mit ihrem Projekt „Kunstasyl“ möchte sie den Blick…

19.12.2015 Until the end of March 2016 the rooms at Quartiersmanagement (neighborhood management) Spandau-Neustadt are KunstAsyl (=ArtAsylum) too.

"212" - the largest installation - is dedicated to Latif, Endrit, Anita, Bedrie and Shaban in…

18.12.2015 After we put Yasin and Selma’s drawings up, Valdrina came to me and Aymen to stage the day as she likes.

17.12.2015 Serdar has found the middle way in most things, when it comes to mourning, longing, and wanting for his family: he will not cut his hair until the subsequent immigration of his wife and three children is made possible.

15.12.2015 Aymen trägt immer Mützen. Immer. Vielleicht braucht ein Architekt einfach ein Dach überm Kopf. In seinem 32. Lebensjahr wagt er sich ans selber stricken...

02.12.2015 when you decided that people from Afghanistan, asking for asylum, no longer have the right to participate in a language course?

25.11.2015 KUNSTASYL present itself between nov. 19 and nov. 29 in Zürich within a verbal and object-like setting

24.11.2015 The day got lost in itself. At 5:32 pm I entered Thobens Backwaren-Shop to revive reality with the help of a cheese bun. I looked at the salesgirl - never saw her before - young and somehow a pastry herself while she would schmooze the…

17.11.2015 Our day was mixed; we worked on several projects in parallel.

12.11.2015 "Hello, you are a human,..." Inge Pett writes about KUNSTASYL

12.11.2015 I was on my way to daHEIM, I meet on Spandau Bahnhof a Syrian family just arrived in Berlin.

10.11.2015 Every day when Arita is coming back she is bringing a crown for Barbara, but today was different.

10.11.2015

07.11.2015 May you be happy too!

"Zineta", I said, "why don't we open a dating service? We could earn a lot of money with it."

03.11.2015 81cm Luftmaschen hat Fatime gehäkelt. Die bildende Künstlerin Ina Geissler führt die jungen BewohnerInnen in die Häkelkunst ein. Das Strickdepartement unter Leitung von Carina wird nunmehr von HäklerInnen flankiert.