Kulturschafft e.V.

About us

The non-profit organization Kulturschafft (Culturecreate) consists of three components: culture + society + creativity.
What we do
• The core group of our association consists of professional artists and cultural workers from various cultural and professional backgrounds. As a result, our projects are often cross-divisional and multilingual
and partly designed experimentally. This interdisciplinarity creates space for new forms, connects art and cultural workers and forms a broad network.
• In addition to the general promotion of art and culture, we attach particular importance to reaching people who normally have little access to cultural offerings. That's why it's important to us, to work not just in the context of cultural institutions, but also in non-artistic spaces. Naturally, diversity in all aspects plays a central role.
• We see art as one of the best means of dealing with socially critical topics and thus to make our contribution to a better world.
• We initiate national and international projects, further the processes of creative and collaborative work and thus enable dialogue and exchange between different cultures and societies.

Projects:
• Pause / Play - Culture under Pressure: Pause / Play - Culture Under Pressure aims to integrate and support cultural workers who have recently been displaced due to the Russian invasion of the
Ukraine and the political repression in Belarus and who are in exile in Germany, Poland and Georgia.
• Creative - Work - City: Art, Ecology and Urbanism - helps Berlin's children and families with refugee and migration background. Among other things we also offer Ukrainian refugees a creative space in Berlin Wedding, where things can be designed, experimented on and researched in an interdisciplinary and participatory manner.
• Vegetables up close: The children from the shared accommodation “Überdacht.Berlin” and IB –Reception dormitory Rankestrasse (35) explore the topic of “healthy eating” in a fun way. Over five months. we have worked together to create, plant and harvest fruit and vegetable beds.
• The School of Creative Protest: The School of Creative Protest was an international educational program which took place both online and offline. It focused on art as a tool for access to basic human rights, independence and youth participation as fully-fledged citizens and decision-makers in post-socialist and post-imperial cities.
• Upcycling Community Festival Co-Up
• Total Digital!: As part of the reading promotion project “Total Digital! Reading and telling stories with digital media, young people have made their own book trailers about their favourite books in the Totschka library.
• multicultural homeless / Kurdish Edition: A documentary radio play about Kurdistan, homeland, discrimination and identity.
• Mistechko: We are a volunteer-run initiative that supports Ukrainian children who are new to Berlin. We offer free weekly art courses in a safe, relaxed environment. The youngsters are encouraged to be creative and express their feelings and ideas.
• Education Lab: Education Lab is dedicated, among other things, to cultural education and runs extracurricular activities and educational projects in cooperation with non-profit organizations, institutions, schools or galleries.
• Polyrama – Since 2021 the Museum for Life Stories has been collecting experiences of central life issues from Berliners with different backgrounds. They give personal insights into their current situation in the form of biographical interviews
• Multicultural homeless: The focus of this project is on young Roma people and their experiences on the topics of identity, cultural home and discrimination.
• In Quarantine: Curatorial tours through a selection of exhibitions with socio-political relevance are documented in video format and published online in full length free of charge for everyone.

On request we can offer other net participants advice, give a presentation, and provide up-to-date information and contacts in the field of our work.