Series of lectures in the summer semester 2021

The understanding of art education history in the German-speaking world is dominated by linear notions of history and perpetual narratives of success. The contributions to the series of lectures counter this understanding with other narratives and historical approaches. These are narratives about art education that consider socio-historical contexts, such as the history(ies) of coloniality, economy, gender and nationality - also in order to present some educational ideas that are today accepted as unquestionable successes in a more differentiated light. And also to take a look at some positions that are no longer visible or have been suppressed today.

The series of lectures takes place online on Fridays 10:15-11:45 and is open to the public on the dates indicated. Guests are welcome and can register by email to:

Organisation: Alexander Henschel

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"Art is beautiful, but it's a lot of work", as Karl Valentin, the great comedian and artist of language, once put it. The variation of the title for this year's series of lectures is based on the assumption that art education always takes place within a certain institutional order. And what's more: art mediation - at least when it is "beautiful" - means not only working within, but also working on the institution.
The institution that forms the respective starting point for the lectures can be called 'school', 'museum', 'education policy', 'the exhibition space', 'the university', 'art school', etc. The focus is on the question of how the relationship between art - mediation - institution can be described, discussed or mediated in other ways. After each lecture there will be sufficient time for discussion with the invited guests: artists, art teachers, curators, professors, educators, scientists. The event series consists of a series of lectures and appointments in which we reflect together on what we have heard.

University lecture series as part of the seminar "The Animal: Discourses in Art and Media History", Dr Kerstin Brandes (Professor), Institute of Art and Visual Culture, summer semester 2018

Over the last 25 years, Human-Animal Studies (HAS) - or Animal Studies (AS) - has developed into an interdisciplinary field of research that aims to shift the usual anthropocentric perspective and look at the relationships between humans and animals in a new way. The lectures explore the question of how animals have been used and thematised in visual culture, in art and media history, in art and media studies discourses and to what extent this represents a challenge to human-animal studies.

At the centre of the workshop for spatial issues and mediation # 1 rearrange focuses on approaching questions about educational institutional space in practice and theory. In 'small forms' such as a short lecture, excursion, short exhibition, reflection and guest lecture, we will deal with conscious changes in the conditions of educational spaces (university, school, ...). In doing so, scientific (reorganisation of knowledge), artistic (reorganisation of material and media arrangements) and pedagogical (transformation of social hierarchies) perspectives and attitudes will be adopted.

In the one-day research workshop reorganising the individual perspective on, in and towards space will be examined and the question asked as to how relationships and effects change when one walks through a space, walks around in it, moves something in it or leaves it. What becomes apparent when you start to rearrange things in the room? And can such effects and emotions be captured? Can this be achieved, for example, through images, language and observations?

In view of a changing educational landscape and new socio-political and technological challenges, the question arises as to whether the existing concepts of aesthetic education are still relevant.

Whether taught at school or outside of school - how is the relevance of art and its teaching justified today? How does the subject respond to social challenges that are signalled by keywords such as 'inclusion' or 'migration'? How is aesthetic practice and theory changing in digitalised everyday life? Does art education in the museum and exhibition sector still need to fight for acceptance or has it long been accepted? And what significance does it have in relation to the expanding field of cultural education? To what extent is aesthetic education affected by a state-funded creative industry and the concepts of art and creativity that it disseminates? How can working contexts and discursive exchange be strengthened in this situation?

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Inclusion is currently being discussed at the University of Oldenburg - and not only here - primarily with regard to teacher training.

The idea of this series of lectures is to scrutinise the discourse on inclusion and to undertake shifts: through a discourse-analytical perspective of disability studies and from the perspective of art and an "aesthetic education of difference" (Maset). One horizon here is art education in and out of school.
The call for diversity will be answered with a heterogeneous spectrum of speaker positions: artists, teachers, parents, architects, special educators, cultural scientists, people with disabilities and those with (supposedly) none, cultural scientists, blind and sighted people will be heard.
The event is organised in co-operation with Material Culture.

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According to the dictionary,foundation means something that someone can build on, that someone can rely on, that is the starting point, the basis for something.

The word Grundlegungen now indicates that foundations are actively laid. So the question arises again and again: What must be said, clarified, assumed in order to be able to move in the quite contradictory field between art and education, in order to have a say, in order to achieve effects? What skills and knowledge must be acquired or already exist? What knowledge and thinking are indispensable? And who asserts these foundations/concepts? From which position, with which interest, in which discourse is it justified, a basis sought, a foundation laid?

Invited guests from Germany and staff from the art-mediation-education department in particular will address this question of grounding. The speakers come from different intellectual-real fields of practice and speak from different theoretical backgrounds.

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This is the motto of a diverse programme of workshops, films and lectures in English offered by female academics from the University of Oldenburg in co-operation with Cine K in October and November. Organisers are lecturers from Gender Studies, the degree programme "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR)", the Institute of English and American Studies and the Institute of Art and Visual Culture.

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Under the motto "Queer Art, Talk and Media", the new Helene Lange Centre for Queer Studies and Intermediality: Art - Music - Media Culture invites you to its kick-off event: Thu, 4 July 2013, from 5pm, A8 0-001.

At the centre of the Helene Lange College "Queer Studies and Intermediality" are queer or queer-designated works from art, music and media culture - productions that combine different forms of artistic expression and formulate alternatives to heteronormative structures and arguments. The research programme asks questions about the interfaces between intermediality, queer performativities and aesthetic concepts as well as about interferences between everyday practices and juridical discourse. The extent to which queer artistic statements function as anti-normalisation politics will be analysed and discussed.

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on 3-4 July, at the University of Oldenburg

You can't get rid of ghosts, they resist repression, return again and again and make themselves known without being asked. As media, they transport the past into the present. "Ghosts of Colonialism" refers to various dimensions of the (post)colonial situation. It is about the invisible/visible continuation of the history of epistemic and concrete violence, of exploitation, slavery and migration, but also about a history of resistance and an insistence on memory. The workshop focuses on audiovisual and artistic approaches to colonialism.

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Series of lectures winter semester 2012/2013

The relationship between educational processes and media can be considered in different directions: On the one hand, there is the question of how technical media come into play in educational situations and, above all, with what effects this happens. On the other hand, this draws attention to the fact that education is always already formatted by media. One could say that the teaching of cultural techniques is linked to media technologies - be it literacy in primers or independent learning in e-learning. We can also ask how the understanding of education shifts and how mediation changes when film comes into play as an educational medium instead of books.

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2nd Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association, 3-4 February 2012, University of Oldenburg

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Series of lectures winter semester 2011/2012

In this series of lectures, the three concepts of art, education and migration will be related to each other. We understand concepts not as abstract constructs that designate social reality, but as actions of a linguistic and social nature; as contested settings that help to create social reality.

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Lecture series at the University of the Arts Bremen and the Institute of Cultural Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Winter semester 2011/12,
Thursdays 6-8 pm, fortnightly in Bremen or Oldenburg.

Workshops: Fridays/Saturdays at the HfK Bremen

Concept and organisation: Josch Hoenes, M.A. (HfK Bremen),
Prof. Dr. Barbara Paul (Institute of Cultural Studies at the CvO University of Oldenburg)

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Series of lectures winter semester 2009/2010

What does art have to do with mediation, what does it have to do with educational activity, what does it have to do with school? How does it occur, what does it do, what can it achieve - in each case concretely conceived and realised? In this series of lectures, practitioners who are currently realising exciting and unusual 'art-related educational work' in various contexts will have their say.

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Series of lectures winter semester 2009/2010

The history of art education can still be told today as a coexistence, succession, opposition and co-operation of individual positions and movements that influence, permeate, exclude, take up, complement and repeat each other in one way or another. The series of lectures will attempt to show such tendencies through research.

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