documenta fifteen x Trampolinhuset

The Trampoline House is this year part of the upcoming documenta exhibition ‘documenta fifteen’. One of the most important, international contemporary art exhibitions, which has previously had close to a million visitors.

This year, it is the Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa, which curates the exhibition and whose starting point is the concept of ‘lumbung’, the Indonesian term for collectively managed rice barns, where the year’s harvest is stored for the common good of the village community.
The exhibition uses Lumbung’s core values; collectivity, generosity, solidarity, trust, independence, sustainability, transparency, and connectedness, to develop and practice new artistic and economic models. Trampoline House was invited to the exhibition because the house was created by a collective of people with asylum seeker background and people with artistic backgrounds. The collective authorship and responsibility of Trampoline House have been the main force in the house’s fight for a more inclusive democracy, which will come to its senses and shut down the asylum centres.

Now documenta fifteen is almost over, with the last opening day on the 25th of September, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Trampoline House are therefore inviting you to an evening about documenta fifteen, where the focus is on the Danish contribution to the exhibition for all those who did not make it to Kassel, or who would like to will have more in-depth knowledge about the project.
This evening you can hear Morten Goll and Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali from The Trampoline House give an introduction to their experiences from documenta fifteen and the work leading up to the opening, as well as you can hear more about The Trampoline House.

The talk is in English and the admission is free.

About the Trampoline House:
In the Weekend Trampoline House, asylum seekers, rejected asylum seekers, and refugees with a residence permit can get counseling, develop capacities, find community, and bear witness to the shadowy sides of Danish refugee policy – all under one roof!
The house is a gathering place for displaced people as well as Danish citizens and international residents, who think that the Danish asylum and refugee policy has become too tight, and who work for a more humane and inclusive refugee policy in Denmark together.

Bios:
Morten Goll (born 1964) is an artist, who began his career in painting, video and drawing. Since 2000 his interest in the sociopolitical has drawn him towards a bigger social engagement aiming at effecting social change. He is, since 2010, a co-founder and executive director of Trampoline House, an independent community center in Copenhagen programming activities for vulnerable citizens with minority background, refugees, asylum seekers and Danes. Morten holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (1999, interdisciplinary arts) and an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Denmark (1993, painting).

Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali is a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda. 12 years old at the time, raped and mutilated, he lost his father, younger brother and more than 100 family members who were all assassinated. As a young survivor, his suffering became key to his involvement as a motivational speaker, a human rights activist, a social and cultural entrepreneur, a journalist, a filmmaker, an artivist and an author. He created a number of innovative radio shows in which conflict management and trauma councilors helped people identify and achieve personal goals thinking positively about the future. Furthermore, he wrote, directed and produced the documentary film By the Shortcut (2009) about the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda and specifically the victims who were drowned in rivers and lakes, he was able to find remains of more than 17.000 bodies near the shores of lake Victoria in Uganda.

As a fashion designer, the founder-director of Rwanda Fashion Festival, he fuses art and fashion to talk about disaster management, conflicts, migration politics such as in the 2010 collection Haiti Earthquake, Benghazi Coalition (2010 Libya) and the collection If the Sea Could Talk from 2014. From December 2015 to December 2020 he was the youngest member of the board of directors of Center of Art on Migration Politics (CAMP-Denmark). With the support of Rwanda Ministry of Sports and Culture, SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst/Danish National Gallery), Statens Kunstfond/Danish Arts Foundation, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development/The Netherlands, La Mairie de Nantes in France, Amnesty International Switzerland. Dady de Maximo has shown his work in numerous countries throughout Africa and Europe As an author, he published « Rwanda, an impossible mourning – Erasure and Traces » April 7, 2021 – Classique Garnier Paris.
December 2021, Dady de Maximo Mwicira-Mitali was elected by the Board of Directors of Copenhagen’s Refugee Justice Community Center “Trampoline House of 2021” as board Chair. In July 2022, he presented his new collection 2022 “In Closed World – Visible and Invisible Walls at Documenta 15/Germany, accompanied by a poet-singer, who recounted the silent suffering, and a contemporary dancer who interpreted with his body the physical and moral suffering of the refugees; a collection of 40 outfits inspired by the life and suffering of refugees.