Support Association

The Künstlerhaus Lukas and its event forum, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, are under the auspices of the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e. V.

Board of Directors

Chairman of the Board
Reinhard Stuth, Entrepreneur, Hamburg

Deputy Chairman
Cornelia Jentzsch, Literary Critic, Uckermark

Finance Director
Guido Seltenheim, Tax Consultant, Berlin

Advisory Board

The work of the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e. V. is accompanied by an artistic advisory board. This board advises on the overall content development and appoints a new external expert jury for the selection of scholarship recipients every two years. Members of the artistic advisory board are appointed for five years and serve on a voluntary basis.

The current advisory board was appointed on April 1, 2023, and consists of the following members:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Dreyer
Chair of Theater and Performing Arts at the University of Music and Theater Rostock

Prof. Claus Friede
Lecturer in Memory Culture, Transculturality, and Digitality at the Institute for Cultural and Media Management at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg, Curator and Editor-in-Chief of kulturport.de

Mikko Fritze
Director of the Finnish Institute in Germany

Prof. Christian Frosch
Chair of Painting, Drawing, Space, and Interdisciplinary Artistic Strategies at the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald

Clara Herrmann
Cultural Manager, Curator, Editor, Director of JUNGE AKADEMIE at the ACADEMY OF ARTS Berlin

Dr. Matthias Kniep
Program Director at Haus für Poesie Berlin

Dr. Gernot Krämer
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine SINN UND FORM, published by the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Ines Meier
Interim Director of NES Artist Residence Skagaströnd/Iceland, Chairman of Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin

Christoph Tannert
Künstlerischer Leiter Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Ulrika Rinke
Program Director at Literaturhaus Rostock

Inka Schube
Curator in the field of Photography and Media at the Sprengel Museum Hannover

Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick
President of the University of Music and Theater Hamburg

Prof. Andrea Wippermann
Chair of Design at the University of Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business, and Design

Interdisciplinary (without voting rights)

Olivia Franke
Director of Künstlerhaus Lukas and Artistic Director of Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop

Cornelia Jentzsch
Deputy Chairman of Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e.V.

Dr. Ursula Schäfer-Preuß
Circle of Friends NEW ART HAS FRIENDS of Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e.V.

Reinhard Stuth
Chairman of Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e.V.

N.N.
Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern