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
- „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 
