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. 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

  4. „Rollenbildung als Bildungsmoment?“

    Kargin-Zahn, F. (Speaker)

    29.09.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Über-diszipliniert und leidenschaftlich diskursiv

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    13.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    07.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. „On the aesthetics of reorganisation“

    Kargin-Zahn, F. (Speaker)

    02.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Chair)

    23.05.2025

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  9. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Gernot Preusser

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    31.03.2025

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  10. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Thomas Köhn (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    06.03.2025

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

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

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

    2025 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsResearch

  12. Popular Music History (Journal)

    Schoop, M. (Editor)

    2025

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

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

    Jóri, A. (Speaker)

    2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. 2024
  15. 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

  16. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Liang Yu

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    17.09.2024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  17. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Katharina Horst de Cuestas

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    16.09.2024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  18. Abschluss des Promotionsverfahrens Cornelia Dirks (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    04.08.2024

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    11.07.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. 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

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

    Jóri, A. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Jóri, A. (Speaker)

    2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  23. 2023
  24. „Rollenbildung“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    30.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. University of the Philippines Diliman

    Schoop, M. (Visiting researcher)

    09.2023

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  26. „Spontane Aufforderungen, inszenierte Zugänge“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    07.07.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Verbücheln, E.-M. (Speaker)

    26.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    22.03.2023

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  29. 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

  30. Kollaborative Kreativität zwischen Fließband und Kunst

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    21.02.2023

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

  31. Daniel Laufer

    Stahl, F. (Host)

    10.01.2023

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  32. PostDoc Mentorat Universität Koblenz

    Ahlers, M. (Consultant)

    01.01.202301.01.2024

    Activity: Consultancy

  33. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    Schoop, M. (Editor)

    2023 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  34. 2022
  35. Zukunftsmusik: The Future of Digital Musik Making & Education

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    05.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    04.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  37. Jan Grünwald

    Stahl, F. (Host)

    01.11.2022

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  38. 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

  39. Surrogates

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

    29.09.202201.10.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  40. 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

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    02.09.202204.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. “Zwischenereignisse. Installationen und Spectators”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    02.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    13.06.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. 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

  45. “Relying on Spontaneity”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    23.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. Meaningful Classroom Music: A Blended Learning Approach

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

    20.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    05.05.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    25.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    08.03.2022

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  50. Populäre Musik und Musikunterricht: Neuere Angebote und Anschlüsse

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    25.01.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  51. 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

  52. Digital Teaching and Learning

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    14.01.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  53. 2021
  54. Patryk Galuszka

    Ahlers, M. (Host)

    01.12.202131.12.2022

    Activity: Hosting a visitorHosting an academic visitor

  55. “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

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

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    05.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

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

    02.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  58. „(Qualitative) Empirische Forschung?”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    28.09.202129.09.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  59. 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

  60. “Prozess 33. Rekonstruktion der Spectatorship”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    27.08.202129.08.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  61. Roundtable Popular music and education

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    18.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  62. 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

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

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    16.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  64. 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

  65. “Research Methods and Methodologies”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    21.04.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  66. 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

  67. CTM Festival 2021 – Transformation

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    23.01.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    14.01.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  69. Kunst & Vermittlung #18

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    12.01.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  70. 2020
  71. 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

  72. Kunstvermittlung zwischen Kompetenz, Performanz und Resonanz

    Hallmann, K. (Keynote Speaker)

    14.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Schoop, M. (Speaker)

    26.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    27.06.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  75. Klangkritzeln oder Soundspuren. 2020

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    01.06.202030.06.2021

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

  76. Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Paul Christian Hönigschnabel (Zweitgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    27.05.2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  77. Kunst & Vermittlung #17

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    09.05.2020

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

  78. Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Michael Dannhauer (Erstgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    16.04.2020

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  79. "Musikunterricht in digitalisierten Bildungskontexten"

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  80. Musikunterricht in digitalisierten Bildungskontexten

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.02.202021.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  81. 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

  82. 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

  83. 2019
  84. Leibliche Grundierungen – Kulturelle Bildungsforschung zwischen Kunst und Bildung

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    22.11.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  85. Kunst & Vermittlung #16

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

    05.11.2019

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

  86. Kunst & Vermittlung #15

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser)

    21.10.2019

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

  87. 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

  88. Denkraum. Bauhaus

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    27.09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. Ästhetische Klangforschung in Kunst und Bildung

    Hallmann, K. (Oral presentation)

    12.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  92. 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

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

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    10.07.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  94. Education University of Hong Kong

    Medrow, L. (Visiting researcher)

    03.07.201905.07.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  95. Leben mit Maschinen - 2019

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    29.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  96. 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

  97. 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

  98. Digitalisierung, Musik, Unterricht, Forschung

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  99. Abschluss Promotionsverfahren Melanie Ptatscheck (Erstgutachter)

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    17.06.2019

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

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