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
- Conference Presentations
“Prozess 33. Rekonstruktion der Spectatorship”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
27.08.2021 → 29.08.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Prozess 48: Imaging as Narrating & Narrating as Imaging”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
02.09.2022 → 04.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia
Schoop, M. (presenter)
11.07.2019 → 17.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia
Schoop, M. (Speaker)
24.06.2019 → 28.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Relying on Spontaneity”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
23.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Roundtable Popular music and education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
18.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Shaping Musical Futures: Perspectives on Post Digital Music Education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
07.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Singing Up Against Misogyny and Colonial Legacies: Punk Feminism in the Philippines
Schoop, M. (Speaker)
26.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Techno Cityscapes: Berlin’s Club Cultural Evolution in the Midst of Gentrification
Jóri, A. (Speaker)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“The Artist and the Narrator. Theorizing two performative modes of spectatorship of the Installation ‘House’”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
25.11.2021 → 26.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Temporality of the Utopian Object: The Bauhaus’s Metallisches Fest (1929).
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
15.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Through the Threshold: responsive, performative, self-referential”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
25.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Über-diszipliniert und leidenschaftlich diskursiv
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
13.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Verständnisse und Aufgaben der Musiktheorie(n) in der Eignungsprüfung. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der KMPWH
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Lang, R. (Speaker)
16.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
“Visual Rhetoric as a three-dimensional practice”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
10.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Von der Immanenz einer wahrnehmungsfundierten Reflexivität in professionsbezogenen Bildungsprozessen
Hallmann, K. (Speaker) & Engel, P. D. B. (Speaker)
08.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Whole Person Development – Building Students as Academic Leaders
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
03.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zukunftsmusik: The Future of Digital Musik Making & Education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
05.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
“Zwischenereignisse. Installationen und Spectators”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
02.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zwischen modularer Konstitution und Niederschwelligkeits-mythos. Zum Demokratisierungsversprechen aktueller digital-haptischer Musik-Interfaces
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Wernicke, C. (Speaker)
19.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research