Exhibitions
Filmmaker Jürgen Heiter and interdisciplinary artist Cony Theis present a living archive of film, installation, painting, and objects.
What is film/cinema? This is the question posed by the exhibition O. T. (THROUGH THE EYES OF JULIA) – a question already asked by André Bazin in the 1950s.
Film is an art form of and from the present and the future. It is unlike any other art. Perhaps the only art form that comes close to it in its immediacy is music. As a time-based art, film cannot stop moving. It is motion picture – bound to space and time, compelled to express processes in time and space. Thus, film is perception, intellect, reason, spirit in motion – the future of itself.
Film is always a conclusion and always asks about the next moment. The disappointment when a film ends, the sense of alienation that takes hold when one leaves the cinema (as if reality itself were like a film), arises from the absence of this next moment. For real life does not contain it in the same way. It escapes the experience that people consciously—meaning freely – make their own history.
At the center of this exhibition is the work of Jürgen Heiter, a multi-award-winning filmmaker who merges film, visual art, and literature in his work. O. T. (THROUGH THE EYES OF JULIA) presents itself as a living archive, created in collaboration with and also featuring works by interdisciplinary artist and curator Cony Theis, complemented by an open register of Jürgen Heiter’s films by Werner Fleischer. A special edition by Jürgen Heiter will be published to accompany the exhibition.
"One goes into the archive when one needs tools to investigate reality, just as one would go into the tool shed to get a shovel. For digging, digging around, burying, unearthing. The archive/history is thus not a place of storage, but a place of production. Just as history must be understood both backward and forward—a movement that produces the present, that wafer-thin slice before/in the eye…" – Jürgen Heiter –
Special program for the Ahrenshoop Film Nights, November 12–15, 2025.
Profile
Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop is the event forum for artist’s residency Künstlerhaus Lukas. Contemporary art and discourses are presented in exhibitions, festivals, symposia, readings, concerts, workshops, film screenings, performances, and workshops. International cooperation with institutions in the Baltic Sea region and a program at the interface of art and ecological issues form a focal point of the work, making Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop a laboratory for contemporary art and a place of discovery, inspiration, and communication.
The exhibition program is dedicated to current approaches to artistic practice. Particular importance is attached to the exhibition accompanying mediation. Guided tours, artist talks and discussion forums are held regularly. For teachers and students, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop offers a wide range of educational programs and workshops. With its transdisciplinary orientation, it complements and enriches the cultural profile of the Baltic Sea resort of Ahrenshoop, which is significant in terms of art history.
Staff
Olivia Franke
Artistic Direction
franke@kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de
Daniela Beyer
Administrative Management
beyer@kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de
Ines Meier
Project Management
meier@kuenstlerhaus-lukas.de
Andrea Beljan
Housekeeping
Interns wanted starting November 2025
Supporting Association
The Künstlerhaus Lukas and its event forum Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop are managed by the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop e.V.
Note
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We cannot return this material, nor are we liable for it. We also kindly ask for your understanding that we cannot respond to every submission.
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History
Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop goes back to the Kunsthaus Guttenberg, founded in 1994 by the painter, graphic artist and book artist Gerlinde Creutzburg for the Künstlerbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as a platform for contemporary art in Ahrenshoop.
