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. The Temporality of the Utopian Object: The Bauhaus’s Metallisches Fest (1929).

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    15.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    25.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Tools – Kreativität – Gamification: Paradigmen und Konzepte zum Einsatz digitaler Medien im Musikunterricht.

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    19.05.201621.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. Travel and Collaboration

    Troeller, J. (Organiser), Becker, A.-G. (Organiser), Peselmann, V. (Organiser), Reisinger, S. (Organiser), Troncoso, P. C. (Organiser) & Wang, Y. (Organiser)

    17.06.202118.06.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. University of Erfurt (External organisation)

    Hallmann, K. (Coordinator) & Hofmann, P. D. F. (Coordinator)

    06.03.2017 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  6. University of Salamanca (External organisation)

    Linde, A. (Member)

    2011 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  7. University of the Philippines Diliman

    Schoop, M. (Visiting researcher)

    09.2023 → …

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  8. Verständnisse und Aufgaben der Musiktheorie(n) in der Eignungsprüfung. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der KMPWH

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Lang, R. (Speaker)

    16.03.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsEducation

  9. “Visual Rhetoric as a three-dimensional practice”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    10.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch