Since its founding, KUNST FÜR ANGELN has been focussing on the art created by children. This was expressed in a very inspiring exhibition in autumn 2025. “THE KIDS ARE THE STARS“, that’s the title and also the title of the first book published by the association KUNST FÜR ANGELN.

During the same period, KUNST FÜR ANGELN showed the works of the internationally renowned photographer Katja Ruge, who also gives concerts as a DJ in various planetariums!
 “Electric Lights – Women in Electronic Music“ was the title of the exhibition in the Alte Schmiede on the Wittkielhof.

Two exhibitions also ran simultaneously in spring 2025: “LIGHT & LANDSCAPE IN THE ART OF THE NORTH” and “DUTCH VIEWS & LIGHT AND LANDSCAPE – LIGHT AND LANDSCAPE IN THE ART OF THE NORTH“. Here was the focus on the special light in the north. It was the first time that KUNST FÜR ANGELN invited two artists from the Netherlands.

And, of course, there were also the popular children’s workshops that are held on one day during the exhibitions of KUNST FÜR ANGELN.
Chili Seitz, a renowned artist and lecturer at the Sønderyjlland Kunstskole in Denmark, which opens up new perspectives with her work held the workshop in April.
It was about wearable sculptures, a theme that the children and young people enthusiastically implemented.

The second workshop of KUNST FÜR ANGELN took place in autumn. The artist who guided the children was Henrik Becker. He lives and works in Flensburg and often expresses himself in large-format paintings using a variety of techniques. The “Giant Lobster” painting from the Roosen-Trinks collection served as a model for the children.

From October 13th to November 10th 2024, the autumn exhibition by KUNST FÜR ANGELN “Photography Art – Icons of Photographic Art” took place. The collector Roosen-Trinks was looking for photographs by well-known photo artists for the exhibition, whose motifs have now become icons. In addition, there were also new acquisitions of young photo artists who still work analogue and can be assigned to authentic photography.

From 7 April to 5 May 2024, the exhibition “Insta me, Baby” was held. The exhibition dealt with the diverse relationships between art and the digital world. The topic was also discussed in a panel discussion.
Curator: The artist Thomas Lunau.

April 16th was a special day for many art-interested seniors from the region. Ingrid Roosen-Trinks, Head of the Association Kunst für Angeln e.V., guided these visitors through the exhibition “Insta me, Baby”, together with the pupils from local schools who explained to the older generation the contemporary art of predominantly Danish and Schleswig-Holstein artists.

On 28th April a workshop for children took place with the artist Nele Engler. The works of art were exhibited in the KIDS ART CLUB Angeln.

Sunday, 24th of October 2024: opening of the exhibition “PHOTOGRAPHY ART – ICONS OF PHOTO ART”

Icons of photography: just a mirror of the times? How does this particular meaning arise, why do certain photographs become so famous? Why are they put on book – or magazine covers? And why is this one motif on the cover?

These and other questions were addressed by Ingrid Roosen-Trinks, collector and board member of the association KUNST FÜR ANGELN e.V., and Timm Vollert, curator and member of the German Society for Photography e.V., together in the exhibition “Photography Art – Icons of Photo Art”.
The exhibition’s finissage was on 10 November.

19th to 27th October 2023: “Photography Art overcomes Boundaries 2024 at Schloss Gelting”
In 2024, the von Hobe-Gelting family opened the Castle of Gelting and the Castle Park to the public. Six works on the photo project “German-Danish friendship” in the context of Photography Art overcomes Boundaries 2024, which was launched at the beginning of this year, were shown in a separate area. For this I have invited Schleswig-Holstein photo artists to look for someone on the Danish side and vice versa. Every couple should think of a concept, how one can best represent the theme of German-Danish friendship in photography”, described Ingrid Roosen-Trinks the idea. The result is motifs with very different interpretations, as they can be found in the various mentalities of the residents here and beyond the German-Danish border.

On 20th October 2024, another workshop for children and young people took place at the Wittkielhof. The participants were inspired and guided by the artist Nele Engler.