As a mediator, she moves between the fields of art, education and politics. Since 2012, she has held the professorship 'Art - Mediation - Education' at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg. As a co-founder, she is part of the artistic direction of 'Werkhaus Münzviertel. Model project for the interweaving of education, art and neighbourhood work' in Hamburg. She was editor of 'THE THING Hamburg. Plattform für Kunst & Kritik' from 2006-09 and process facilitator for 15 art projects at schools as part of 'ÜBER LEBENSKUNST. Schule' from 2010-12 and curated a final exhibition with selected projects at schools in five Federal States for the model programme "Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen" (2011-2015). Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Die Kunst und ihre Folgen. On the genealogy of art education". She was a scholarship holder of the graduate programme "Aesthetic Education" in Hamburg and studied in Lüneburg (cultural studies) and Vienna.

Genealogies of art education, educational and social functions of art, art in public space, art in schools

PUBLICATIONS & MONOGRAPHS

• Issue#5. documentation 01/2017-02/2018. Doro Carl, Fabian Nitschkowski, multiphonics. Werkhaus Münzviertel. On the entanglement of pedagogy, art and neighbourhood work, ed. by Rahel Puffert / Günter WestphalHamburg 2019

• Issue#4: Works by Olivier Nourisson and TINTIN Patrone at Werkhaus Münzviertel. Model project for the interweaving of pedagogy, art & neighbourhood work. Edited by Rahel Puffert / Günter Westphal, Hamburg 2017.

• Issue #3 (Documentation of the workshop work) Werkhaus Münzviertel. Model project for the interweaving of pedagogy, art & neighbourhood work. Edited by Rahel Puffert / Günter Westphal, Hamburg 2016.

• Issue#2. 05-11/2014: Katja v/d Broek and Tilo Kremer and 02-08/2015 Stephan Lorenz, (Documentation of the second phase of Werkhaus Münzviertel. Model project for the interweaving of pedagogy, art and neighbourhood work). Edited by Rahel Puffert / Günter Westphal, Hamburg 2015.

• Art and its consequences. Zur Genealogie der Kunstvermittlung, (transcript) Bielefeld 2013 (monograph) [Review by Nora Sternfeld, in: Das Argument 304, 55. Jg., Heft 5, 2013; Nanna Lüth, in: Springerin 04/2013; Jens Kastner, in: igbildendekunst.at; www.socialnet.de/rezensionen/14981.php]

• THE THING Hamburg. Platform for Art and Criticism (2006-09) www.thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=259 Responsible for content: Rahel Puffert

• Jacques Derrida: As If I were dead - Als ob ich tot wäre, ed. and transl. by U. O. Dunkelsbühler, T. Frey, D. Jäger, K.-J. Pazzini, R. Puffert, U. Vorkoeper, (Turia+Kant) Vienna 2000

ESSAYS & ARTICLES

• "Język Şekillendirmek". Withdrawal of language understanding as a potential of art teaching, in: Juliane Goschler, Martin Butler (eds.): Sprachsensibilität in Bildungsprozessen, VS Springer: Wiesbaden 2019, pp. 293-307.
• Whom empathy drives into illegality. Kunst und Soziales im Zeitalter der Migration, in: Heft#5 (Dokumentation Werkhaus Münzviertel. On the entanglement of pedagogy, art and neighbourhood work), Hamburg 2019, pp. 3-6.From conceptual art to artistic research, in: Bildpunkt. Zeitschrift der IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, spring 2018, no. 45. art, research, politics, pp. 22-25.
• Harmonies play no role here, in: Rahel Puffert, Günter Westphal (eds.): Issue #4 (Documentation Werkhaus Münzviertel. Model project for the interweaving of education, art and neighbourhood work), Hamburg 2017, p. 31.
• The Metamorphoses of Olivier Nourisson, in: Rahel Puffert, Günter Westphal (eds.): Issue #4 (Documentation Werkhaus Münzviertel. Model project for the interweaving of pedagogy, art and neighbourhood work), Hamburg 2017, pp. 6-14.
• Normality, in: Manfred Blohm, Andreas Brenne, Sara Hornäk (eds.): Somehow different. Inklusionsaspekte in den künstlerischen Fächern und der ästhetischen Bildung, (fabrico Verlag) Flensburg 2017, pp. 127-133.
• Vom Bild gelassen den Raum betreten, in: Andrea Sabisch, Torsten Meyer, Manuel Zahn, (eds.): Übertrag, Wissenschaftliche Sozietät Kunst Medien Bildung, (kopaed Verlag) Munich 2017, pp. 89-98.

• Mediation as a tightrope act, in: Kunstverein and Springhornhof Foundation (eds.): Von Kunst aus - Weitergehen. Art mediation in the space of the art landscape, 2017, pp. 6-9, 15-19.

• Towards an Aesthetic Education of Space, in: Pierangelo Maset, Kerstin Hallmann (eds.): Formate der Kunstvermittlung. Competence - Performance - Resonance, (transcript) Bielefeld 2017, pp. 105-116.

• Was getan werden muss" On the curatorial concept of the exhibition Neue Agenda? at the Kunstverein Hildesheim and on the public tasks of art, in: Onlinepublikation zur Ausstellung 'Neue Agenda? District Forum IDEE 01239 as a case study for the Kunstverein Hildesheim',2017. www.idee-01239.de/neue-agenda/

• Eine Einrichtung einrichten, in: Günter Westphal, Rahel Puffert (eds.): Heft#3. Dokumentation Werkhaus Münzviertel, Hamburg 2016, p. 25.

• With distance in transition. Perspektiven auf das Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft, in: Judith Siegmund (ed.): Wie verändert sich Kunst, wenn man sie als Forschung versteht?, (transcript) Bielefeld 2016, pp. 45-64.

• The Crisis of Representation and its Reference to Mediation, in: Rab-Rab. Journal for Political and Formal Inquiries in Art. Social Security. Issue 02, Volume B, Rab-Rab Press, Helsinki 2015, pp. 111-117.

• Taste as the difference that makes the difference? Judgement formation and social inequality in art education, in: Institute for Art Education Zurich/ Carmen Mörsch (ed.): Art Education Research No. 10/2015. http://iae-journal.zhdk.ch/files/2015/06/AER10_puffert.pdf

• Unfulfilled and yet instructive. Co-operations in zones of theatre and school from art and its mediation, conference documentation: "Kulturagenten für kreative Schulen", 2014, (PDF, p. 171-180). www.kulturagenten-programm.de/assets/assets/KulturagentenprogrammTagungsdokumentation-2014.pdf

• THE THING Hamburg. A temporary Democratisation of the local art field, together with. Cornelia Sollfrank and Michel Chevalier, in: Leonardo (San Francisco) 2014, Vol. 19, No. 4 Electronic Almanac (PDF, pp. 148-163) www.leoalmanac.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LEA_Vol20_No1_SollfrankPuffertChevalier.pdf

• Next to it. A plea for incompetence, in: Rohes Ei im Vorbeiflug, AMBULANZ - Kunstvermittlungen. A method for shared surprise, (ATHENA) Oberhausen 2013, pp. 134-141.

• "Distinktionsprofit", in: Markus Binner, Roman Steger, OK Offenes Kulturhaus im OÖ Kulturquartier (eds.): Fremdspeisen, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz im OÖ Kulturquartier (Essen im Asyl und Pommes rot), (Springer) Vienna Bolzano 2013, pp. 54-55.

• Only the visible part. Catalogue essay, in: Günter Westphal. Blätter, so zart, (Galerie Renate Kammer) Hamburg 2012 , pp. 49-52.

• Cleanliness and hygiene. A conversation between Dennis Feser and Rahel Puffert [on the project "Aus der Spur" as part of ÜBERLEBENSKUNST:Schule] (2012), www.ueber-lebenskunst.org/schule/projekte/aus-der-spur/

• You're only smarter afterwards. A commentary on the educational programme ÜBER LEBENSKUNST. School (2012), www.über lebenskunst.org/school/data/doc/commentary-educational-programme.pdf

• The dark side of the neighbourhood, together w. Lena Kaiser, in: die tageszeitung Nord, 22/08/2012

• Die Kunst der vielen Unbekannten | The Art of the Unknown, in: Werner Fenz, Evelyn Kraus, Birgit Kulterer (eds.): Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark. Projects, (Springer) Vienna 2012 , pp. 52-61.

• Not just clean. On the staging of space by Judith Haman, in: Judith Haman: wasche meine Hände, (hierunda Verlag) Hamburg 2012 , pp. 13-16.

• What does media art mean here? Some reflections on media, means and mediation, in: Nanna Lüth, Sabine Himmelsbach, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst (eds.): Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Grün, Blau? On the relationship between media, art and pedagogy, (revolver) Berlin 2011 , pp. 40-45.

• Die Steg und die Kunst, in: die tageszeitung Nord and taz.de, 03.07.2011

• Guidance for the herd of cows. "Right to the City" Congress Hamburg. A commentary, together w. Lena Kaiser, in: die tageszeitung Nord and taz.de, 08.06.2011

• Undigested knowledge and teaching embodiments, in: Torsten Meyer, Adrienne Crommelin, Manuel Zahn (eds.): Sujet Suppodé Savoir. Zum Moment der Übertragung in Kunst Pädagogik Psychoanalyse, (Kulturverlag Kadmos) Berlin 2010 , pp. 89-94.

• Betrifft nicht Cornelia Sollfrank allein: Der Dialog als Bedingung ästhetischer Produktion, catalogue essay, in: Sabine Himmelsbach für das Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst (ed.): expanded Original. Cornelia Sollfrank, (Hatje & Cantz) Ostfildern 2009 , pp. 94-109.

• Was man sieht, ist nur ein Teil | What You See, is Only a Part, catalogue contribution to the exhibition, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (ed.): PÖPP68. Privat öffentlich persönlich politisch, (Vice Versa) Berlin 2009, pp. 84-95.

• The White Cat (on Doro Carl: "Pawlow's Grandson", video), in: S. Bauer, U. Bergermann, C. Hanke, H. v. Odenburg, C. Reiche, A. Sick (eds.): Prototypisieren. Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst (thealit. Frauen. Kultur. Labor) Bremen 2009, pp. 93-95.

• Binder. Sabine Falk and Rahel Puffert spoke with Boris Nieslony (2008), thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=885&no_cache =1&sword_list[]= rahel&sword_list[]=puffert

• Inventing the right structure. Conversation between Cornelia Sollfrank and Rahel Puffert (2008), thing-hamburg.de

• Sticky Works. An Interview with Jérôme Guigue, Paris (2008), thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=815&no_cache=1&sword_list[]= rahel&sword_list[] =puffert

• Update room. Interview with Kerstin Stakemeier by Kathrin Wildner and Rahel Puffert (2008), thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=816&no_cache =1&sword_list[] =puffert

• Learning from excessive demands. A critical examination of three exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Hamburg (2008), thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=813&no _cache=1&sword_list[]=puffert

• "I am Bouvard and Pécuchet". Interview with Nana Petzet about her work (2008), thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=808&no_cache= 1&sword_list[] =rahel&sword_list[]=puffert

• "Will Hamburg stop?". Interview with Heiner Metzger and Dodo Schielein about Hamburg's experimental music scene and the association of contemporary music (2008), thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=771&no_cache=1&sword_list[] =rahel&sword_ list[] =puffert

• Rabbit ethogram Robby, 2007 (on a room installation by Nana Petzet), in: Peter Friese, Guidi Boullboullé, Susanne Witzgall, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen (eds.): "Say it isn't so". Naturwissenschaften im Visier der Kunst, (Kehrer) Heidelberg 2007, pp. 194-201.

• Demokratie ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit ..., together with the working group of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, in: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (ed.): Demokratie ...in der neuen Gesellschaft. Information from the Depths of a Contested Space, (Vice Versa) Berlin 2007, pp. 190-197.

• New Art Practices in the Field of Political Decision-Making: A Process Report from Projektgruppe, (with Cornelia Sollfrank, Monika Wucher), in: Academic journal article from Afterimage, Vol. 34, Nos. 1&2, 2006, pp. 73-75.

• In the middle of a tyre change with Allan Kaprow (2007), www.einstellungsraum.de/archiv_chevalier1.html

• Au Nom de "la Reception", in: Catalogue of the IV. Biennale de Paris, Paris 2007, pp. 774-776.

• Rather the dynamic. On the beginnings of The Thing Hamburg (2006), www.thing-hamburg.de/index.php?id=528

• Art mediation as a field of conflict, in: Elke aus dem Moore (ed.): Tillansien. Projekte 2003-2004 im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, (Revolver) Frankfurt/M. 2005, p 196-198.

• Das Gemurmel der Gesellschaften | On the Murmuring of Publics, in: Mette Kit Jensen: Ich vermisse | I miss. Berlin Alexanderplatz 29.04.05-16.05.05, (a-s Holbaek Exprestrykkeri Holbaeck) 2005, pp. 10-17.

• Prescribed or pronounced? Or: What is spoken when mediating, in: schnittpunkt - Beatrice Jaschke, Charlotte Martinez-Turek, Nora Sternfeld (eds.): Wer spricht? Autorität und Autorschaft in Ausstellungen, (Turia+Kant) Vienna 2005, pp. 59-71.

• Between awakening and demolition. A brief history of Hamburg art projects in public space, in: Kulturrisse, Vienna 01/05, pp. 13-14.

REVIEWS

• Wiederholen: Ästhetische Bildung der Differenz by Pierangelo Maset, in: BDK-Mitteilungen, 1/14 [Pierangelo Maset: Ästhetische Bildung der Differenz. Wiederholung 2012, (Edition Hyde) Lüneburg 2012]

• Art education, expanded, BDK-Mitteilungen, 2/12, [Art education 1. Working with the audience, opening up the institution. Formate und Methoden der Kunstvermittlung auf der documenta 12, ed. by W. Wieczorek, C. Hummel, U. Schötker, A. Güleç and S. Parzefall and Kunstvermittlung 2. Zwischen kritischer Praxis und Dienstleistung auf der documenta 12. Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts. ed. by Carmen Mörsch and the documenta 12 research team, (diaphanes) Berlin 2011]

• Das schlaflose Glück der Produktivität, in: ak - analyse & kritik - zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis | Nr. 528 | 23.5.2008: Hans-Christian Dany: SPEED. Eine Gesellschaft auf Droge (Edition Nautilus), Hamburg 2008]

• Künstlerinnen machen Kunstvermittlung, in: Kulturrisse, Vienna 02/03, p. 46 [Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (ed.): Kunstkoop. Künstlerinnen machen Kunstvermittlung, (Vice Versa) Berlin 2002]