About the person
As an art mediator, I combine theory and practice. The basis for this is a degree in stage design at the Art Academy in Stuttgart (with Prof Jürgen Rose) and a degree in art history and philosophy in Stuttgart and Würzburg. Today, the focus of my work is the implementation of contemporary forms of mediation; for example, I develop and realise specific workshop offers and lectures for the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) for their touring exhibitions. In my research work, I concentrate on the field of transcultural art education and cultural policy in the Nazi era. I completed my dissertation entitled: "Kunstberichte als kultur- und pressepolitisches Herrschaftsinstrument im NS - Untersuchung der Berichterstattung zur "Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellung" in München von 1937 bis 1943 in der "Frankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt"" with a thesis defence in 2022(http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-59263). Since 2014 I have been a research assistant at the Carl von Ossietzky University at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture in the field of art mediation/art education. From 2019 to 2023, I worked there on the OLE+ project (biography-orientated and cross-phase teacher training), which was entitled: "Talking about art". The project focussed on the development of teaching/learning materials for language-sensitive learning in schools, especially in art lessons. To this end, considerations are presented that show how it is possible to combine aesthetic/differentiation-sensitive with educational science perspectives with regard to speaking before/about/with art.
Academic CV
2022 Doctorate on the topic: "Art reports as a cultural and press-political
instrument of power in the Nazi regime - examination of the coverage of the "Great German Art Exhibition" in Munich from 1937 to 1943 in the "Frankfurter Zeitung and Handelsblatt"
1989-96 Master's degree in philosophy and art history at the universities of Würzburg and Stuttgart
Topic of the master's thesis: "Altarpiece and video image - a media-aesthetic comparison"
1980-86 Studied stage and costume design at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Thesis: Stage and costume design for "Lulu" by Alban Berg
Publications
PUBLICATIONS
- 2023‘Untitled #475 from the series Society Portraits (2008) by Cindy Sherman: Repertoire and Collage’ (in collaboration with Nanna Lüth). In: QUEERULIEREN, Moments of Disruption in Art, Media and Science, ed. Oliver Klaassen; Andrea Seier. Neofelis Verlag, Berlin 2023
- 2023 ‘Art reviews as an instrument of cultural and press policy control under the Nazis – An analysis of coverage ofthe “GreatGermanArt Exhibition” in Munich from 1937 to 1943 in the “Frankfurter Zeitung” and “Handelsblatt”’ ” (Download full text: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:715-oops-59263)
- 2017 Interview on museum access and exclusion. In: in_visible limits – Crossing Boundaries in Art and Society. Kontur Kunstverein (ed.). Stuttgart
- 2016 “Bottom right – Doubts about the innocence of image titles”. In: Presuppositions – Art/Education and their Conditions. Ed. Nanna Lüth, Berlin
- ‘no rules!’ In: Cross-Border Projects – Impulses from Art & Education. Edited by Manfred Blohm, Tanja Brümmer and Markus Herrschbach, fabrico Verlag, Hanover, 2015
- Karin Hanika, Wiebke Trunk, KulturRegion Stuttgart (eds.): ‘...and give my regards to the world’ / Reflected Homelands. Texts on homeland, identity and visual culture, Stuttgart 2007.
- Nanna Lüth, Wiebke Trunk (eds.): “Irgendwann ist Schluss mit lustig – Interventionen in Werbung”, publication accompanying the exhibition at the arttransponder gallery, Berlin 2008.
OWN PUBLICATION
- “Speaking from the Perspective of Art” (2024)
Best practice examples from the 3-year
OLE+ project (combining theory and practice for schools)
https://uol.de/lehr-lern-plattform-schule
- Learning from one another – Art education in the context of cultural diversity, ifa Edition Kultur und Außenpolitik, Stuttgart 2011.
ESSAYS
2025 – “Art is Context. The artist Fritz Mackensen still serves as a figurehead” In: Lüth, Nanna (ed.): “Again and Again! – Teaching Nazi History in Schools, Higher Education and the Arts”. Munich, kopaed.
- ‘Co-operation between Schools and Museums in the Context of Inclusion-Oriented Processes of Opening Up’ (together with Michaela Kaiser and Nina Ahokas) (2024) In: Kaiser, Michaela; Brenne, Andreas; Ahokas, Nina: All inclusive? Art Education in the Mirror of Inclusion. Series: Art, Media, Education. Volume 19, Munich, kopead.
- “Collecting, Storing and Transforming – a project with warehouse logistics apprentices in Wolfsburg” in: “lokale liaison – art education at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg: collaborative research into the contexts of contemporary art”, Wolfsburg 2013.
- ‘Shabby, mouldy, chocolatey – (no) dispute in the museum as an educational institution’ in: Burckhardt, Sara; Mayer, Torsten; Urlaß, Mario (eds.): convention. Results and Suggestions # Tradition # Action # Vision, Kunst Partizipation Pädagogik series, Vol. 03, Munich 2013.
- ‘Perception’ in: spektrum, magazine of the Stuttgart University of Music, No. 21, Summer Semester 2012/13.
- ‘In a Spirit of Renewal: Questions on the “Educational Turn” at the “First Salon for Critical Art Education” in Berlin’ at: www.zkmb.de/index.php?id=136 (7 May 2013: Internet Journal for Art, Media, Education)
- ‘Spaces for Transcultural Diversity and Dissent in Art Education’, in: Andreas Brenne, Sara Burckhardt, Marc Fritzsche et al. (eds.): Participate, Cooperate, Transform, Munich 2012, pp. 213–224.
- ‘Paroli in Biberach’, essay on Romane Holderried Kaesdorf, in: Heilbronn Municipal Museums (eds.): ‘Gnadenlos. Künstlerinnen und das Komische’, Cologne 2012, pp. 100–107.
- ‘Raus aus dem Heimchen’, essay on Rosemarie Trockel, in: Heilbronn Municipal Museums (eds.): ‘Gnadenlos. Künstlerinnen und das Komische’, Cologne 2012, pp. 210–215.
- ‘Why Does She Do This to Herself?’, an essay on Andrea Fraser, in: Heilbronn Municipal Museums (eds.): Merciless. Women Artists and the Comic, Cologne 2012, pp. 247–247.
- Drawings in *From the Depths of Being or Tutti Bikini Capta Sunt* by Adrienne Braun, Tübingen 2011.
- Drawings in *medien kunst vermitteln*, edited by Nanna Lüth, Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg 2011.