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
Artistic Music Research: Potentials and Perspectives for Artistic and Scientific Music Research in German-speaking Countries (German Research Foundation)
Zaddach, W.-G. (Project manager, academic)
03.05.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
Art Road Map - Mini Art Assignments aus dem Fach Kunst
Stahl, F. (Project manager, academic)
18.10.21 → 01.07.22
Project: Other
ÄOP: Ästhetische Operationen
Maset, P. (Project manager, academic)
20.01.01 → 20.09.22
Project: Research
Ästhetische und künstlerische Praktiken als Reorganisation von Wahrnehmungsweisen
Kargin-Zahn, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.23 → 02.09.23
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
TM 1.5 Case Study Veranstaltungs- und Kulturmanagement: Case Study 8 "Veranstaltungs- und Kulturmanagement - Was wird aus dem VERDO?"
Schormann, C. (Project manager, academic), Holder, S. (Project staff), Massonne, F. (Project manager, academic) & Voigt, E. (Project staff)
Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen – NBank
19.08.09 → 31.01.16
Project: Practical Project
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
CODIP: Competences for Digital-Enhanced Individualized Practice
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Kuhl, P. (Project manager, academic), Lehr, D. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner), Schmidt, T. (Partner), Herzog, C. (Coordination), Altenburger, L. (Project staff), Diekhoff, H. (Project staff), Hase, A. K. (Project staff), Kahnbach, L. (Project staff), Wendt, C. (Project staff), Wucherpfennig, S. (Project staff), Horst de Cuestas, K. (Project staff) & Neumann, A. (Partner)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.03.20 → 31.12.23
Project: Research
CREATES: Creating Responsive, Engaging, and tailored Education with students
Schormann, C. (Project manager, academic) & Hobuß, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.17 → 31.03.22
Project: Teaching
Curator and researcher for the exhibition Lucia Moholy: Exposures, Kunsthalle Praha
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic), Forbes, M. (Project manager, academic) & Tichy, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.21 → 30.05.24
Project: Research
Das "Offene Atelier"
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic)
06.02.17 → 31.07.21
Project: Transfer (R&D project)
DFG Research Init 5700: TransExile. Negotiations of aesthetics and community in postrevolutionary Mexico - Subproject 4: Cultural anthropology, indigenism and local materialities in the context of exile
Troeller, J. (Project manager, academic), Noack, K. (Project manager, academic) & Bremer, V. (Project staff)
01.04.25 → 31.03.29
Project: Research
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
Die Landung – Projekte der Kunstvermittlung
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Maset, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 31.12.09
Project: Research
Digitale Medien zwischen Kunst, Musik und Pädagogik
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Kertz-Welzel, A. (Project manager, academic) & Nistor, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 30.09.13
Project: Teaching
Digitalität – Diversität – Producing: Praktiken populärer Musik in Schule und Weiterbildung . Teilprojekt Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.23 → 28.02.26
Project: Research