Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education combines artistic, pedagogical and research-based expertise within the disciplines fine arts and music, with a particular emphasis on contemporary forms and practice. Lecturers offer modules for students enrolled in the Bachelor and Masters programmes within the faculties of Education and Humanities, in addition to the minor programme Popular Music Studies and the Early Childhood Music Further Education programme. Public exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events are of great importance within in the institute. These collaborative projects are innovatively developed and presented with and for our students thereby enriching the cultural life of the university.

Main research areas

Research activities

Junior professorship for Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic Practices

Professorship for Arts Mediation

Professorship for Music Education, in Particular Popular Music
Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlers

Professorship of Musicology, in particular Popular Music Studies
Prof. Dr. Monika Schoop

  1. 2022
  2. Hausfrau Photography: Value and Gender in an Unrealized Photobook

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    19.01.202220.01.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  3. Populäre Musik und Musikunterricht: Neuere Angebote und Anschlüsse

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    25.01.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Dr. Beate Angerer (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    08.03.2022

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  5. “Through the Threshold: responsive, performative, self-referential”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    25.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. “Performer: Über die mediale Schwelle zum responsiv-transformatorischen Überschuss”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    05.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Meaningful Classroom Music: A Blended Learning Approach

    Verbücheln, E.-M. (Speaker) & Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. “Relying on Spontaneity”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    23.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Interfaces between People and Musics: Paradigm Shifts in the Context of Post-Digital Music Practice

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Neuhausen, T. (Speaker)

    10.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Michelangelo’s Matrix: The Childbirth Metaphor in Italian Renaissance Art Theory

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    13.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. “Zwischenereignisse. Installationen und Spectators”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    02.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch