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
- 2025
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (External organisation)
Schoop, M. (Member of the Board of Curators)
2025 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Research
Popular Music History (Journal)
Schoop, M. (Editor)
2025Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2024
International Association for the Study of Popular Music e.V. (External organisation)
Schoop, M. (Member of the Board of Curators)
11.2024 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
„Einführung“, „Künstlerische Praktiken postdigitaler Verflechtungen“
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
11.07.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2023
„Rollenbildung“
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
„Einführung“ in dem Interdisziplinärer Workshop „Ästhetische und Künstlerische Praktiken als Reorganisation von Wahrnehmungsweisen“
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
01.09.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
University of the Philippines Diliman
Schoop, M. (Visiting researcher)
09.2023 → …Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
„Spontane Aufforderungen, inszenierte Zugänge“
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
07.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Innovative Approaches to Digital Classroom Music. Professional Competencies of Music Students
Verbücheln, E.-M. (Speaker)
26.05.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens: Dr. Maurice Stenzel (Drittgutachter)
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
22.03.2023Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › 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
Kollaborative Kreativität zwischen Fließband und Kunst
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
21.02.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
PostDoc Mentorat Universität Koblenz
Ahlers, M. (Consultant)
01.01.2023 → 01.01.2024Activity: Consultancy
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Schoop, M. (Editor)
2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
- 2022
Zukunftsmusik: The Future of Digital Musik Making & Education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
05.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Postdigitale Musikalische Interfaces als musikpädagogisches Potenzial? Ein Explorations-Workshop
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
04.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Peak of the Assembly Lines? (Online) Songwriting Camps as Current Spaces of Individual and Collaborative Creativity
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
21.10.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Surrogates
Fiduccia, J. (Organiser) & Troeller, J. (Organiser)
29.09.2022 → 01.10.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop für lehrkräftebildende Hochschulen Niedersachsens im Rahmen der „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“
Ahlers, M. (Speaker), Besser, M. (Speaker), Kuhl, P. (Speaker) & Herzog, C. (Speaker)
13.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
“Prozess 48: Imaging as Narrating & Narrating as Imaging”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
02.09.2022 → 04.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Zwischenereignisse. Installationen und Spectators”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
02.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Michelangelo’s Matrix: The Childbirth Metaphor in Italian Renaissance Art Theory
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
13.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Interfaces between People and Musics: Paradigm Shifts in the Context of Post-Digital Music Practice
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Neuhausen, T. (Speaker)
10.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Relying on Spontaneity”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
23.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Meaningful Classroom Music: A Blended Learning Approach
Verbücheln, E.-M. (Speaker) & Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
20.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Performer: Über die mediale Schwelle zum responsiv-transformatorischen Überschuss”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
05.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Through the Threshold: responsive, performative, self-referential”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
25.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Dr. Beate Angerer (Zweitgutachter)
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
08.03.2022Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Populäre Musik und Musikunterricht: Neuere Angebote und Anschlüsse
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
25.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Hausfrau Photography: Value and Gender in an Unrealized Photobook
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
19.01.2022 → 20.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Digital Teaching and Learning
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
14.01.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2021
Patryk Galuszka
Ahlers, M. (Host)
01.12.2021 → 31.12.2022Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
“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
Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893–1979) and the gendered Language of Sculpture`s Histories
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
05.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Projekte, Potenziale und Produkte digitaler Medien in ästhetischen Fächern
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Krieger, C. (Speaker)
02.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„(Qualitative) Empirische Forschung?”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
28.09.2021 → 29.09.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Summer School, Digital Art History, DAHSS 21
Kargin, F. (Participant)
30.08.2021 → 04.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
“Prozess 33. Rekonstruktion der Spectatorship”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
27.08.2021 → 29.08.2021Activity: 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
Roundtable Popular music and education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
18.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Travel and Collaboration
Troeller, J. (Organiser), Becker, A.-G. (Organiser), Peselmann, V. (Organiser), Reisinger, S. (Organiser), Troncoso, P. C. (Organiser) & Wang, Y. (Organiser)
17.06.2021 → 18.06.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Musik der Zeit. Gewaltexzesse im deutschen Gangsta Rap anhand des Beispiels Kollegah
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
16.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
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)
25.05.2021 → 06.07.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
“Research Methods and Methodologies”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
21.04.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Visual Rhetoric as a three-dimensional practice. Theorizing the interconnections between the visual rhetorical objects and the process of spectatorship”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
01.04.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
International Association for the Study of Popular Music e.V. (External organisation)
Schoop, M. (Chair)
03.2021 → 11.2024Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
CTM Festival 2021 – Transformation
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
23.01.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
"MUSIKUNTERRICHT IM KONTEXT VON DIGITALISIERUNG, BILDUNG & GESELLSCHAFT
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
14.01.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kunst & Vermittlung #18
Hallmann, K. (Organiser)
12.01.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
- 2020
Music, Media and Arts Education 2020
Ahlers, M. (Participant) & Wernicke, C. (Participant)
17.11.2020 → 18.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kunstvermittlung zwischen Kompetenz, Performanz und Resonanz
Hallmann, K. (Keynote Speaker)
14.11.2020Activity: 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
Körper. Leib. Verstehen – Zur responsiven Leiblichkeit in Kunst und Bildung
Hallmann, K. (Speaker)
27.06.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Klangkritzeln oder Soundspuren. 2020
Hallmann, K. (Organiser)
01.06.2020 → 30.06.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Paul Christian Hönigschnabel (Zweitgutachter)
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
27.05.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Zweitgutachter im Promotionsverfahren Dr. Paul Christian Hönigschnabel: Musikerziehung in Österreich: 1947–2017. Die Mediatisierung des Faches, dargestellt in den Beiträgen des Fachmagazins Musikerziehung
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
27.05.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Kunst & Vermittlung #17
Hallmann, K. (Organiser)
09.05.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Education
Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Michael Dannhauer (Erstgutachter)
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
16.04.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Erstgutachter im Promotionsverfahren Dr. Michael Dannhauer: (Über-)Leben als Popmusiker*in Eine empirische Untersuchung zur tertiären Ausbildung, dem Tätigkeitspro-fil sowie den professionellen Herausforderungen und Kompetenzbeständen von Berufsmusiker*innen im Bereich Populärer Musik
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
16.04.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
"Musikunterricht in digitalisierten Bildungskontexten"
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
20.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Musikunterricht in digitalisierten Bildungskontexten
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
20.02.2020 → 21.02.2020Activity: 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
Ästhetik.Kunst.Bilden. – Potenziale (selbst-)reflexiver Aufmerksamkeit in ästhetisch-künstlerischen Bildungsprozessen
Hallmann, K. (Speaker)
31.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Clara Schumann Fest 2020
Schoop, M. (Organiser) & Lang, R. (Organiser)
30.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
- 2019
Leibliche Grundierungen – Kulturelle Bildungsforschung zwischen Kunst und Bildung
Hallmann, K. (Speaker)
22.11.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kunst & Vermittlung #16
Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)
05.11.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Education
Kunst & Vermittlung #15
Hallmann, K. (Organiser)
21.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Klang, Raum, Bewegung. Gestaltung interaktiver Klangobjekte und -installationen - 2019
Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Großmann, R. (Organiser)
15.10.2019 → 28.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Education
Denkraum. Bauhaus
Hallmann, K. (Speaker)
27.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung - 2019
Ahlers, M. (Organiser)
27.09.2019 → 29.09.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Klingende Erinnerungen: Überlegungen zu einer musikethnologischen Erinnerungsforschung
Schoop, M. (presenter), König, S. (presenter), Ringsmut, M. (presenter) & Köhn, T. (presenter)
25.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ästhetische Klangforschung in Kunst und Bildung
Hallmann, K. (Oral presentation)
12.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
“Visual Rhetoric as a three-dimensional practice”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
10.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Education University of Hong Kong
Medrow, L. (Visiting researcher)
03.07.2019 → 05.07.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Leben mit Maschinen - 2019
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
29.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Engendering Bauhaus Histories. Frauen und Feminität seit den 1920er-Jahren.
Troeller, J. (Speaker), Burchert, L. (Speaker) & Függer-Vagts, J. (Speaker)
28.06.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › 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
Digitalisierung, Musik, Unterricht, Forschung
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
20.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Erstgutachter im Promotionsverfahren Dr. Melanie Ptatscheck: Biographische Fallrekonstruktion von Lebensgeschichten heroinabhängiger Musiker in Los Angeles
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
19.06.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Melanie Ptatscheck (Erstgutachter)
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
17.06.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Erstgutachten im Dissertationsverfahren Melanie Ptatscheck, M.A.
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
17.06.2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Im Wechselspiel der Sinne - Sound als Gestaltungsmaterial im Grenzbereich zwischen Bildender Kunst und Musik.
Hallmann, K. (Keynote Speaker)
06.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Effekte und Affekte. Warum die Künste nichts tun.
Hallmann, K. (Speaker)
19.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
FORMATE DER KUNSTVERMITTLUNG - 2019
Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Maset, P. (Organiser)
16.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
FORMATE DER KUNSTVERMITTLUNG - 2019
Medrow, L. (Moderator)
16.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
International Association for the Study of Popular Music UK and Ireland Branch Sustainable Sounds Conference - 2019
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
11.05.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Materiality, Agency and Potentials of “Music-Making-Things”
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
11.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Musikobjekte als Gegenstand der Artefaktanalyse - Interdisziplinärer Workshop - 2019
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
18.03.2019 → 19.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Professionalisierungsprozesse in der kunstvermittelnden Lehrer*innenbildung
Hallmann, K. (Oral presentation)
02.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2018
Kunstpädagogik und Kunstvermittlung - Vom Eigensinn des Künstlerischen und der Bildung im Ästhetischen
Hallmann, K. (Speaker)
19.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Professorship for Music Education, in Particular Popular Music (Organisational unit)
Ahlers, M. (Executive member)
04.12.2018Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
MusikmachDinge, Klangerzeuger, neuen Instrumente und hybride Perfomance-Settings
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
10.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Evaluation künstlerischen Unterrichts an einer Universität: Einblicke in die Entwicklung von Erhebungsinstrumenten, Prozesse, sowie erste Daten
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Seifert, A. (Speaker)
06.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Musikalische Interface Designs (Poster)
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Wernicke, C. (Speaker)
06.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Pop-Welten
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
29.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
Kompetentes Klassenmusizieren: Prozesse und Produkte phasenübergreifender Zusammenarbeit
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Landmeier, J. K. (Speaker)
26.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reeperbahnfestival Konferenz
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer