Berlin.

Assistants of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei decorate the columns of Berlin’s Konzerthaus with lifejackets, on February 13, 2016, as part of an installation intended to remind people of the ongoing refugee crisis.
The Cinema for Peace gala will be held at the Konzerthaus on February 15, 2016, on the sidelines of the Berlinale Film Festival. 

The Independent

Last year, more than one million people fleeing war and persecution in Syria, Afghanistan and further afield were thought to have made dangerous journeys by sea and overland to Europe. 

More than 400 people have already died trying to make the perilous sea crossing so far in 2016.

Last month Ai WeiWei pulled out of a planned show in Denmark in protest against a recently passed law which allows the state to confiscate refugees’ valuables as part payment for asylum seek services.

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