Events
KUNST HEUTE
Stumbling and Clearing. A Forest Experiment
Exhibition with Judith Zander & Sven Gatter as part of KUNST HEUTE
Opening: September 27, 5 pm with an artist talk
Duration: September 28 – October 3, 2025, daily 2–5 pm
As part of KUNST HEUTE, Künstlerhaus Lukas presents the interdisciplinary project Stumbling and Clearing. A Forest Experiment, highlighting the collaboration between writer Judith Zander and photographer Sven Gatter. The exhibition features a selection of analogue color photographs and lyrical short prose created during a joint residency in the former home of Günter de Bruyn in Brandenburg.
At its core, the project explores the forest as a space of experience—between retreat and reflection, nature observation and cultural interpretation. While Gatter’s photographs open up the lower vegetation layer as a visually poetic terrain, Zander’s texts expand this perspective through linguistic-acoustic excursions. An audio installation makes the texts audible within the exhibition, weaving them together with the photographic works into a dense, atmospheric narrative.
The literary-artistic collaboration will be further explored in a public reading on October 3, 2025, at 7 pm with Judith Zander, where visitors can experience additional texts from the project and engage in conversation with the author.
OPEN HOUSE DAYS
On the Open House Day, visitors are invited to explore the historic Künstlerhaus Lukas and discover the work of current fellows through exhibitions, readings, screenings, concerts, and conversations.
Sunday, September 28, 2025, 3–6 pm
September fellows: Cony Theis (Curating), Jürgen Heiter (Film), Zoe Chronis (Baltic Network Fellowship: Visual Arts and Media), Olga Radetzkaja (Translation), Chelsea Leventhal (Music), Rebekka Bauer (Visual Arts and Media), Gunilla Boije af Gennäs (Baltic Network Fellowship: Printmaking)
Sunday, October 26, 2025, 3–6 pm
October fellows: Benjamin Borisch (Visual Arts, fellowship of the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt), Svenja Deking (Visual Arts, fellowship of the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt), Juli Katz (MV Literature Prize 2024), Vera Ohlson (Baltic Network Fellowship: Glass Art), Mareille Papenfuß-Fellien (Honorary Fellowship)
AHRENSHOOP LITERATURE DAYS
Reading with Juli Katz
Friday, October 3, 2025, 11 am at Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop
Winner of the MV Literature Prize 2024, Juli Katz reads from her award-winning text. Born in 1990, Katz works as a writer, filmmaker, and freelance journalist in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She writes for national and regional media, mainly on science, politics, culture, and labor, and organizes the largest existing reading tour through MV. She is currently working on her debut book and first film. In October 2025, Juli Katz will be a fellow at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop.
Reading and conversation with Judith Zander
Friday, October 3, 2025, 7 pm at Künstlerhaus Lukas
Within the exhibition Stumbling and Clearing. A Forest Experiment, Judith Zander reads lyrical short prose created during her residency in the former home of Günter de Bruyn in Brandenburg. At its core are the themes of forest, retreat, and reflection. The reading at Künstlerhaus Lukas connects Zander’s texts with the exhibition of Sven Gatter. Following the reading, the author will engage in conversation with the audience about the project. Judith Zander, born in Anklam in 1980, is an award-winning writer and lives in Greifswald.
Profile
The Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop is an internationally active institution supporting artistic practices in the fields of visual arts, performing arts, literature, music/composition, and serving as a forum for contemporary artistic and intellectual discourse. At this renowned residency center on the Baltic Sea, professional artists of all ages are supported with residency scholarships. The Künstlerhaus offers its fellows a time of exceptional quality—a space for artistic practice, reflection, and transdisciplinary dialogue.
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The Künstlerhaus Lukas and its event forum Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop are managed by the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e. V.
Friends' Association
The friends' association NEUE KUNST HAT FREUNDE supports the work of the residency center and the event forum Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop.
Network
Künstlerhaus Lukas emphasizes collaboration and bringing people together. Through long-term partnerships with selected residency centers in the Baltic Sea region and Iceland, as well as through funding and events, we support cross-border exchange and foster connections between artists, practitioners, and institutions.
Publications
The EDITION HOHES UFER AHRENSHOOP was founded in 1998 by the Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop and the Künstlerhaus Lukas. Since then, over 100 titles have been published by the in-house publishing house.
History
The Künstlerhaus Lukas is one of the oldest artists' residencies in Germany. In 1894, the impressive country house was built by landscape painter Paul Müller-Kaempff (1861–1941) as a private painting school called “St. Lucas.” It primarily served as a workspace for female artists, as women at that time were still barred from attending art academies.
