CAMP’s founders and Trampoline House will be part of the next documenta – and CAMP will close
We are proud to announce that CAMP's founders and curators, Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen, will be part of the upcoming documenta. The next edition of the leading international contemporary art exhibition, which takes place every five years in Kassel, opens in June 2022 and is directed by the Indonesian artist collective, ruangrupa.
Foto: Kim Hansen
The starting point for ruangrupa’s documenta fifteen is the concept of ‘lumbung,’ the Indonesian term for collectively run rice barns, where the harvest of the year is stored for the common good of the village community. The exhibition will use lumbung’s core values – collectivity, generosity, solidarity, trust, independence, sustainability, transparency, and connectivity – to develop and practice new artistic and economic models. “In moments when so many are experiencing the inequality and injustice of the current systems, lumbung can act as an effort (alongside so many others) to show that things can be done differently,” as ruangrupa states.
Last year, ruangrupa invited Frederikke and Tone to join documenta fifteen’s curatorial team because they have worked from similar values in their curatorial practice. While Frederikke accepted the invitation and has been working in the curatorial team since Fall 2019, Tone has chosen to stay in her program director position in the refugee community center, Trampoline House. Here, she will coordinate the group of Trampoline House representatives, who has been invited to join an international lumbung during documenta fifteen. Together with eight other collectively organized projects with roots in art, Trampoline House will over the next three years develop alternative ways of organizing and sharing material and non-material resources based on the lumbung values of solidarity and collectivity.
So after seven years, CAMP will in September end its exhibition activities in Trampoline House and close. The exhibition spaces are taken over by the Trampoline House children's club for refugee and asylum-seeking children. Frederikke and Tone look forward to continuing their curatorial collaboration in a new constellation and see what lumbung can do to help solve one of the most pressing humanitarian crises of our time, mass displacement.