BALTIC NEXT – Young Art from Northern Europe
Exhibition
Opens Easter Sunday and Monday from 11am-5pm.
BALTIC NEXT is an exhibition format for emerging artists, developed in ongoing collaboration with partner institutions in the Baltic Sea region. The focus is on current trends in young art from the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea.
The exhibition series BALTIC NEXT – YOUNG ART FROM NORTHERN EUROPE provides a platform for emerging artists. Each year, the top graduates of the Caspar David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald (INSOMNALE Prize) and the Faculty of Design at Wismar University of Applied Sciences present their work at the Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop and receive a one-month residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas in return. The exhibition is complemented by another artist from the Baltic Sea network. In this year’s edition, it is the Fyns Grafiske Værksted in Odense, Denmark.
The artists currently being honored present works in the fields of photography, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture.
Fabian Gröger, born in Kaltenkirchen in 1997, completed an apprenticeship as a photographer between 2015 and 2018 and has been studying Communication Design and Media at Wismar University of Applied Sciences since 2020. In his artistic practice, he explores transience and the traces of human activity as temporal inscriptions in material and image. Photography functions not only as a documentary medium, but as a space for reflection in which questions of temporality, memory and material legacies are explored.
Lindgreen&Alt is a drawing and printmaking workshop in the South Funen Archipelago, where visual artist Pil Lindgreen (*1986, MA in Literature and Translation Theory) creates works on paper. Working like a gentle collector, she traces encounters between natural and human-made environments through printmaking, mapping, drawing and photography. Recent works explore algae in food and architecture and underwater seaweed harvests along the Baltic coast using repurposed materials and found paper.
Marvin Schwenk, born in 1999 in Balingen, has been studying Art and Design at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institute, as well as Religious Education and History for secondary school teaching in Greifswald, since 2021. His work investigates the perception of line and form, the relationship between geometric order and natural processes, and the transience of objects. Through experimental techniques such as intaglio and process-based material exploration, he probes the limits of visual recognizability. Awarded the art SIEBEN Prize in 2023 and Insomnale Prize in 2025.
A three-part publication will be released by EDITION HOHES UFER AHRENSHOOP.
Programme
April 4 and May 24, 2026, at 11 a.m. each day
Guided tour of the exhibition with Olivia Franke, Artistic Director of Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop.
May 14, 2026, at 11 a.m.
STORM TALK “Between Heaven and Hearth—Women’s Life Paths Between Freedom and New Conservative Promises” with Henrike Heller (Curatorial Fellowship, Künstlerhaus Lukas) and Olivia Franke (Artistic Director, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop).
