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
Posthuman and more-than-human Entanglements in Art(s) Education - Ringvorlesung der Universität Leuphana, Universität Osnabrück und der Universität zu Köln
Kargin, F. (Project manager, academic), Zahn, M. (Project manager, academic) & Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic)
28.04.25 → 30.06.25
Project: Scientific event
TransExil: TransExil. Verhandlungen von Ästhetik und Gemeinschaft im postrevolutionären Mexiko" - Teilprojekt TP4 „Cultural Anthropology, lndigenismus und lokale Materialitäten im Kontext des Exils"
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic) & Noack, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.25 → 31.03.29
Project: Research
Eva Lucia Backhaus »Myzel, Kompost, Algorithmus – Künstlerische Praktiken im Anthropozän«
Kargin, F. (Partner)
08.10.24 → …
Project: Scientific event
Busking, Well-being, and the Value of Music in the Post-Pandemic: An Ethnographic Approach to the Lifeworlds and Practices of Buskers in NYC
Ptatscheck, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.24 → 28.02.26
Project: Research
Künstlerische Praktiken postdigitaler Verflechtungen. Reorganisationen zwischen Aisthesis, Kunst und Medien
Kargin, F. (Project manager, academic)
11.07.24 → 12.07.24
Project: Scientific event
dArts: dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.24 → 30.06.27
Project: Research
MI-RAP: MI-RAP - Music Industry Resilience Acceleration Programme, Subproject 8
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
Ästhetische und künstlerische Praktiken als Reorganisation von Wahrnehmungsweisen
Kargin, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.23 → 02.09.23
Project: Scientific event
ComeArts | fortbilden durch vernetzen – vernetzen durch fortbilden
Verbücheln, E.-M. (Project staff) & Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.23 → 28.02.26
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
„ComeArts. fortbilden durch vernetzen - vernetzen durch fortbilden. Gelingensbedingungen diversitätssensibler, digitalisierungs- und digitalitätsbezogener Fortbildungsmodule für die Fächer Kunst und Musik in Community Networks. Teilprojekt Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.23 → 28.02.26
Project: Research