April 1st - April 29th 2022 | Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop

Starting my residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in April 2022, located at the Baltic seaside resort Ahrenshoop, one of the oldest art colonies in Germany dating back to 1892. I am revisiting my time after my first residency at the same artist house 19 years ago. Comparing the developement in this tiny village from now to the sleepy and very comfortable time i spent in 2003, it is obvious that time and money, a lot of money did some serious damage to the beautiful Ahrenshoop in many ways. Real estate prices sky rocketed followed by a complete sell out to investors. This lead also to ridiculous architectonical contructions, it doesn´t matter what kind of substructure was made, they always put at the end a thatched roof on it believing that nobody would recognize the obvious mistake. Taste is sometimes a matter of history and not of spending money. In the year 2003, I took pictures inside of the already locked down Kurhaus Ahrenshoop by entering it illegally and capturing the decay of an once famous spa house in the GDR. Sadly this building got demolished in 2008 and got replaced by a new and modern faceless spa house. These pictures will be the starting point for a new series of work dealing with this topic.