Künstlerhaus Lukas

The Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists’ House Luke) is a place of artistic work and international gathering. It promotes professional artists in the genres of fine arts, literature, dance and music through the awarding of residence scholarships and focuses on interesting cooperation between the different genres. Thereby, the international context with the Baltic littoral states lies in the center of attention.

An additional international exchange program on the one hand promotes above all artists from Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania with travel scholarships and on the other hand invites holders of scholarship from partner countries to Ahrenshoop. The Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists’ House Luke) helps promote artists to realize selected projects and gives them publicity in cooperation with national and international partner institutions.

The association Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop (Artists’ House) has been given responsibility for the Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists’ House Luke). From January 2006 onwards, the association will continue the experienced work of the Stiftung Kulturfonds, an official foundation for the promotion and financing of works of culture. The local authorities of Ahrenshoop provide for the preservation and maintenance of the building.

The basic financing of the Künstlerhaus Lukas (Artists’ House Luke)’s activities is ensured by the Department of Education, Science and Culture of the federal state of Mecklenburg/Western Pomerania. Financing is also supplied by the foundation ZEIT- Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, the district of Northern Pomerania, private personalities committed to culture as well as selected projects of public and private cultural foundations.

The program of scholarships intentionally strengthens the cooperation with the departmental authorities of the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany responsible for culture, for example with the Senate Department of Science, Research and Culture of the federal state of Berlin in 2006.

Once a year, scholarships will be awarded in the following genres: Fine Arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, artistic book, video, arts and crafts/design), literature (narrative literature, lyrics, drama, screenplay, essay, literary translations), dance (choreography, performance) and music (composition).

Up to seven holders of scholarship can work and live at the Künstlerhaus Lukas at the same time. There are seven rent-free apartments available. Four of them consist of a living room and a studio; three of them consist of a combined study and living room. Additionally, a photographic laboratory, a small printing workshop and a small bookbinding workshop can be used free of charge. The apartments are fully equipped and have individual private bathrooms and telephone/internet connection. Communicative meeting points in the house are a lounge/public room, two common kitchens and two terraces. On limited occasions, apartments may also be rented.

At present, our partners in the international exchange program for artists are the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators Visby (Gotland, Sweden), the Ystad Art Museum (Sweden), the KKV Graphicworkshop & KKV Sculptureworkshop Monumental Malmö (Sweden), the Professional Association of Fine Arts Gotland (Sweden), the National Centre for Contemporary Arts Kaliningrad, (Russian Federation), the Nordnorsk Kunstnersentrum Svolvær (Norway) as well as the Artists’ Association Lithuania.

The artistic work of the holders of scholarship will be presented in readings, exhibitions, concerts, performances and other public presentations with the help of our important regional partner institutions: the Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop (New Arts House), the Kunsthalle Rostock (Rostock Art Museum), Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (College of Music and Theatre) and the Literaturhaus Kuhtor Rostock (Literature House). In Ahrenshoop our partners are the Kunstkaten (Arts Cottage), the Strandhalle (Beach Hall), the Klanggalerie (Sound Gallery) as well as the schools in the surrounding municipalities.