FREE COFFEE (2010)

"THE COFFEE IS FREE BUT DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED"

Free Coffee is a project addressing the discrimination of refugees in Denmark. During the exhibition Denmark 2010 – Instructions to the Nation of ‘the Happiest People in the World' at Ovengaden contemporay art centre in Copenhagen, I built a small coffee shop outside of the building in the attractive neighborhood of Chrisianshavn. Refugees work in the cafeteria giving out coffee and tea for free. The reason is that in Denmark refugees have no right to work or take any education despite the fact that it takes many years to get an acceptance or refusal of your refugee status.

Donations given at the coffee bar are the only money that refugees working there legally can get…