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, 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)
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
Eva Lucia Backhaus »Myzel, Kompost, Algorithmus – Künstlerische Praktiken im Anthropozän«
Kargin, F. (Partner)
08.10.24 → …
Project: Scientific event
Flow und Imaginative Bildung im Kunstunterricht
Medrow, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 31.12.22
Project: Dissertation project
Innovation Plus 2019/2020: Digitale Bildung
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.19 → 31.12.20
Project: Teaching
Internationales kunstpädagogisches Forschungskolloquium
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic), Engel, B. (Project manager, academic) & Loemke, T. (Project manager, academic)
20.09.18 → …
Project: Research
Klangräume – Digitale Räume: Sound im Kontext von Kunst, Medien und Bildung
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.18 → 31.12.22
Project: Research
Kompetenzorientierte Unterrichtsgestaltung
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
08.10.15 → 30.09.19
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
Lehreinheiten Basiskompetenzen Inklusion in den Fachdidaktiken (Erste Förderphase)
Besser, M. (Project manager, academic), Abels, S. (Partner), Ahlers, M. (Partner), Greve, S. (Project staff), Leiss, D. (Partner), Süßenbach, J. (Partner) & Troll, B. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.12.16 → 31.01.18
Project: Research
Making Arguments with Data
Kargin, F. (Project staff), Savic, S. (Project manager, academic) & Martins, J. P. (Project staff)
01.09.22 → 01.10.23
Project: Research
MuM 3: Medien im Musikunterricht
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic) & Weber, B. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 31.03.18
Project: Research
MeInSport: Medienpädagogik und Inklusion im Sportunterricht der Grundschule
Süßenbach, J. (Project manager, academic), Greve, S. (Project staff), Krieger, C. (Partner), Günther , S. (Partner), Thumel, M. (Partner), Jastrow, F. (Partner) & Schwedler-Diesener, A. (Partner)
01.03.18 → 28.02.19
Project: Research
meNet - music education Network
Schormann, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.06 → 12.07.10
Project: Other
MI-RAP: MI-RAP - Music Industry Resilience Acceleration Programme, Subproject 8
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → 31.10.26
Project: Research
Musical and Auditive Memory Spaces: Remembering the Time of National Socialism in Lower Saxony
Schoop, M. (Project manager, academic) & Köhn, T. (Project staff)
01.10.22 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
MIDaKuk: Musikalische Interface-Designs: Augmentierte Kreativität und Konnektivität
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Jörissen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Wernicke, C. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.17 → 31.12.21
Project: Research
Netzwerkbildung im Musiksektor von Niedersachsen - Funktionsweisen und Mechanismen Sozialer Formationen
Dollereder, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Popmusik-Didaktik: Zwischen Universität, Schule und Beruf
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
06.08.13 → 15.04.15
Project: Research
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
Professionalisierungsprozesse in der ästhetisch-künstlerischen Lehrer*innenbildung
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Engel, B. (Partner)
01.01.19 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
ZZL: Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung: Theorie-Praxis-Verzahnung in der Lehrerbildung - Handlungsfeld: Kompetenzorientierte Unterrichtsgestaltung. Strukturorientierter Schriftspracherwerb (ZZL)
Weinhold, S. (Project manager, academic), Barth, M. (Project manager, academic), Leiss, D. (Project manager, academic) & Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.16 → 30.06.19
Project: Research
SC21: Songwriting Camps in the 21st Century
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic), Barber, S. (Project manager, academic) & Herbst, J.-P. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.23 → 01.03.26
Project: Research
Sounding Memories - Nazi Persecution and Anti-Nazi Resistance in the Music of Contemporary Germany
Schoop, M. (Project manager, academic) & Spinetti, F. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → 12.07.21
Project: Research
Sprachliche Heterogenität und Kompetenzen im Musikunterricht
Ahlers, M. (Project manager, academic) & Seifert, A. (Partner)
01.01.14 → 30.06.15
Project: Research
Stipendium für Promotionsprojekt -Bildwissenschaftliche Kunstdidaktik
Maset, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.13 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Stipendium für Promotionsprojekt - Transkulturelle Kunstvermittlung -
Maset, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.11 → 30.06.13
Project: Individual grant
Synästhetische Strategien in der Kunstvermittlung
Hallmann, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → 01.03.16
Project: Research
Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity. Transferring Research into Academic Teaching
Kargin, F. (Project manager, academic)
23.05.22 → 26.05.22
Project: Scientific event