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. 2025
  2. Symposium "Music and Cats"

    Schoop, M. (Organiser)

    28.11.202529.11.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Polylog: Zukünfte des Erinnerns in der Postmigrationsgesellschaft

    Drews, K. (Speaker), Kollender, E. (Speaker), Otremba, L. (Speaker) & Schoop, M. E. (Speaker)

    12.11.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  4. Podiumsdiskussion "Kritik und Perspektiven" - in der Tagung "forschen von Kunst aus"

    Kargin-Zahn, F. (Speaker)

    01.10.202502.10.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. „Rollenbildung als Bildungsmoment?“

    Kargin-Zahn, F. (Speaker)

    29.09.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Handlungsleitende Wissensbestände von Lehrkräften zum Umgang mit digitalen Musiktechnologien im Musikunterricht

    Hall, E. (presenter), Krebs, M. (presenter), Kuck, M. (presenter), Phung, V. (presenter), Rolle, C. (presenter) & Völker, J. (presenter)

    25.09.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  7. Über-diszipliniert und leidenschaftlich diskursiv

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    13.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Shaping Musical Futures: Perspectives on Post Digital Music Education

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    07.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. „On the aesthetics of reorganisation“

    Kargin-Zahn, F. (Speaker)

    02.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. German Society for Popular Music Studies e.V. (External organisation)

    Ahlers, M. (Chair)

    23.05.2025

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  11. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Gernot Preusser

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    31.03.2025

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  12. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Thomas Köhn (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    06.03.2025

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  13. Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (External organisation)

    Schoop, M. (Member of the Board of Curators)

    2025 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  14. Popular Music History (Journal)

    Schoop, M. (Editor)

    2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  15. Techno Cityscapes: Berlin’s Club Cultural Evolution in the Midst of Gentrification

    Jóri, A. (Speaker)

    2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  16. 2024
  17. International Association for the Study of Popular Music e.V. (External organisation)

    Schoop, M. (Member of the Board of Curators)

    11.2024 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  18. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Liang Yu

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    17.09.2024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  19. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Katharina Horst de Cuestas

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    16.09.2024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  20. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Cornelia Dirks (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    04.08.2024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  21. „Einführung“, „Künstlerische Praktiken postdigitaler Verflechtungen“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    11.07.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. Workshop »Künstlerische Praktiken postdigitaler Verflechtungen – Reorganisationen zwischen Aisthesis, Kunst und Medien«

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser), Kargin-Zahn, F. (Organiser) & Zahn, M. (Organiser)

    11.07.202412.07.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  23. “MORGEN IST DIE FRAGE” – Current Issues of Berlin’s Club Culture

    Jóri, A. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  24. “Morgen ist die Frage”: On the Necessity of Archiving Berlin’s Techno Histories

    Jóri, A. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  25. 2023
  26. „Rollenbildung“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    30.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. University of the Philippines Diliman

    Schoop, M. (Visiting researcher)

    09.2023

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  28. „Spontane Aufforderungen, inszenierte Zugänge“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    07.07.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  29. Innovative Approaches to Digital Classroom Music. Professional Competencies of Music Students

    Verbücheln, E.-M. (Speaker)

    26.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  30. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens: Dr. Maurice Stenzel (Drittgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    22.03.2023

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  31. 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

  32. Kollaborative Kreativität zwischen Fließband und Kunst

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    21.02.2023

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

  33. Daniel Laufer

    Stahl, F. (Host)

    10.01.2023

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  34. PostDoc Mentorat Universität Koblenz

    Ahlers, M. (Consultant)

    01.01.202301.01.2024

    Activity: Consultancy

  35. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    Schoop, M. (Editor)

    2023 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  36. 2022
  37. Zukunftsmusik: The Future of Digital Musik Making & Education

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    05.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  38. Postdigitale Musikalische Interfaces als musikpädagogisches Potenzial? Ein Explorations-Workshop

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    04.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  39. Jan Grünwald

    Stahl, F. (Host)

    01.11.2022

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  40. Peak of the Assembly Lines? (Online) Songwriting Camps as Current Spaces of Individual and Collaborative Creativity

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    21.10.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Surrogates

    Fiduccia, J. (Organiser) & Troeller, J. (Organiser)

    29.09.202201.10.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  42. Workshop für lehrkräftebildende Hochschulen Niedersachsens im Rahmen der „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker), Besser, M. (Speaker), Kuhl, P. (Speaker) & Herzog, C. (Speaker)

    13.09.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  43. “Prozess 48: Imaging as Narrating & Narrating as Imaging”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    02.09.202204.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. “Zwischenereignisse. Installationen und Spectators”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    02.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    13.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. 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

  47. “Relying on Spontaneity”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    23.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  48. Meaningful Classroom Music: A Blended Learning Approach

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

    20.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    05.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    25.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    08.03.2022

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  52. Populäre Musik und Musikunterricht: Neuere Angebote und Anschlüsse

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    25.01.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  53. 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

  54. Digital Teaching and Learning

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    14.01.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  55. 2021
  56. Patryk Galuszka

    Ahlers, M. (Host)

    01.12.202131.12.2022

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  57. “The Artist and the Narrator. Theorizing two performative modes of spectatorship of the Installation ‘House’”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    25.11.202126.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  58. Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) and the gendered Language of Sculpture`s Histories

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    05.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  59. Projekte, Potenziale und Produkte digitaler Medien in ästhetischen Fächern

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Krieger, C. (Speaker)

    02.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  60. „(Qualitative) Empirische Forschung?”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    28.09.202129.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  61. Summer School, Digital Art History, DAHSS 21

    Kargin, F. (Participant)

    30.08.202104.09.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  62. “Prozess 33. Rekonstruktion der Spectatorship”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    27.08.202129.08.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  63. Roundtable Popular music and education

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    18.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  64. 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

  65. Musik der Zeit. Gewaltexzesse im deutschen Gangsta Rap anhand des Beispiels Kollegah

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    16.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  66. Summer School, Curating Art and Nature, The Knowledge of the Curator III – Department of History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape, University of Groningen

    Kargin, F. (Participant)

    25.05.202106.07.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  67. “Research Methods and Methodologies”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    21.04.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  68. International Association for the Study of Popular Music e.V. (External organisation)

    Schoop, M. (Chair)

    03.202111.2024

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  69. CTM Festival 2021 – Transformation

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    23.01.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  70. "MUSIKUNTERRICHT IM KONTEXT VON DIGITALISIERUNG, BILDUNG & GESELLSCHAFT

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    14.01.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  71. Kunst & Vermittlung #18

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    12.01.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  72. 2020
  73. Music, Media and Arts Education 2020

    Ahlers, M. (Participant) & Wernicke, C. (Participant)

    17.11.202018.11.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  74. Kunstvermittlung zwischen Kompetenz, Performanz und Resonanz

    Hallmann, K. (Keynote Speaker)

    14.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Singing Up Against Misogyny and Colonial Legacies: Punk Feminism in the Philippines

    Schoop, M. (Speaker)

    26.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  76. Körper. Leib. Verstehen – Zur responsiven Leiblichkeit in Kunst und Bildung

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    27.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  77. Klangkritzeln oder Soundspuren. 2020

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    01.06.202030.06.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  78. Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Paul Christian Hönigschnabel (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    27.05.2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  79. Kunst & Vermittlung #17

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    09.05.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsEducation

  80. Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Michael Dannhauer (Erstgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    16.04.2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  81. "Musikunterricht in digitalisierten Bildungskontexten"

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  82. Musikunterricht in digitalisierten Bildungskontexten

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.02.202021.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  83. Von der Immanenz einer wahrnehmungsfundierten Reflexivität in professionsbezogenen Bildungsprozessen

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker) & Engel, P. D. B. (Speaker)

    08.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  84. Clara Schumann Fest 2020

    Schoop, M. (Organiser) & Lang, R. (Organiser)

    30.01.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  85. 2019
  86. Leibliche Grundierungen – Kulturelle Bildungsforschung zwischen Kunst und Bildung

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    22.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  87. Kunst & Vermittlung #16

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)

    05.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsEducation

  88. Kunst & Vermittlung #15

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    21.10.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  89. Klang, Raum, Bewegung. Gestaltung interaktiver Klangobjekte und -installationen - 2019

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)

    15.10.201928.01.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsEducation

  90. Denkraum. Bauhaus

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    27.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  91. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung - 2019

    Ahlers, M. (Organiser)

    27.09.201929.09.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  92. Klingende Erinnerungen: Überlegungen zu einer musikethnologischen Erinnerungsforschung

    Schoop, M. (presenter), König, S. (presenter), Ringsmut, M. (presenter) & Köhn, T. (presenter)

    25.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  93. Ästhetische Klangforschung in Kunst und Bildung

    Hallmann, K. (Oral presentation)

    12.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  94. Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia

    Schoop, M. (presenter)

    11.07.201917.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    10.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  96. Education University of Hong Kong

    Medrow, L. (Visiting researcher)

    03.07.201905.07.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  97. Leben mit Maschinen - 2019

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    29.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  98. Engendering Bauhaus Histories. Frauen und Feminität seit den 1920er-Jahren.

    Troeller, J. (Speaker), Burchert, L. (Speaker) & Függer-Vagts, J. (Speaker)

    28.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  99. Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia

    Schoop, M. (Speaker)

    24.06.201928.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  100. Digitalisierung, Musik, Unterricht, Forschung

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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