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

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