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. 2026
  2. In preparation

    Der GoPro-Blick. Zur performativen Kamera

    Kargin-Zahn, F., 04.2026, (In preparation) In: Zeitschrift Kunst Medien Bildung.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Einleitung: Posthuman Entanglements in Art(s) Education

    Hallmann, K., Kargin-Zahn, F. & Zahn, M., 04.2026, In: Zeitschrift Kunst Medien Bildung.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. In preparation

    Posthuman Entanglements in Art(s) Education

    Hallmann, K. (Editor), Kargin-Zahn, F. (Editor) & Zahn, M. (Editor), 04.2026, (In preparation) Wissenschaftlichen Sozietät Kunst Medien Bildung e.V. (Zeitschrift Kunst Medien Bildung)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. In preparation

    Rollenbildung: Zu responsiv-performativen Dimensionen der Erfahrung künstlerischer Installationen

    Kargin-Zahn, F., 02.2026, (In preparation) transcript Verlag. 320 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  6. 2025
  7. E-pub ahead of print

    Negotiating Standards and Songwriting Myths in the Age of Platformisation: Sessions, Camps, and Their Functional Rules and (Media) Formats

    Wernicke, C. & Ahlers, M., 16.07.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Popular Music. 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Classroom music in Germany as praxis and object: Innovative approaches and early findings

    Verbücheln, E.-M. & Ahlers, M., 29.05.2025, Innovative Teaching and Classroom Processes: Research Perspectives from Germany and China. Ehmke, T. & Chi-Kin Lee, J. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 117-129 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  9. Published

    Popular Music Songwriting as Cultural, Creative and Economic Practice: Songwriting von populärer Musik als kulturelle, kreative und ökonomische Praxis

    Ahlers, M., Herbst, J.-P. & Holtsträter, K., 19.05.2025, Münster: Waxmann Verlag. 304 p. (Lied und populäre Kultur; vol. 69)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury

    Troeller, J., 06.05.2025, The MIT Press. 355 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  11. Published

    Introduction to the special issue: Popular music (re)writes history: Popular music and historical narratives

    Schoop, M. E., 03.05.2025, In: Popular Music History. 16, 1-2, p. 5-15 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Back in the new 1970s? How a song counters historical revisionism and authoritarian nostalgia for the Philippine dictatorship

    Schoop, M., 05.03.2025, In: Popular Music History. 16, 1-2, p. 160-183 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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