Prof. Dr Carl-Peter Buschkühle

studied art, philosophy and educational science at the universities of Paderborn, Wuppertal and Cologne from 1977 to 1982. In 1983 and 1984, he devoted himself to independent artistic work in painting and undertook study visits to London, Paris and Italy. From 1986 to 2000, Buschkühle taught art and philosophy at the Benedictine Grammar School in Meschede. From 1989 to 2000, he was a lecturer in art history at the University of Wuppertal. In 1996, he was awarded a Dr. phil. there with a thesis on art as art education in the work of Joseph Beuys.

He is a founding member of the artists’ group “Das künstliche Gelenk”, which existed from 1996 to 2003. From 2000 to 2007, he was a professor of art education at Heidelberg University of Education and, at the same time, Chair of the State Conference of Art Lecturers at the Universities of Education in Baden-Württemberg. In 2006, he completed his habilitation at the University of Koblenz-Landau on the subject of media culture and artistic education. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Art Education at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. Since 2015, he has been Chair of the European Regional Council of the International Society for Education through Art.

Alexander Henschel

since 2010: doctoral candidate in the Art Education doctoral programme; since 2010: research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg; 2008–10: research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim; since 2006: freelance artist and art educator in theory and practice; 2001–06: studied art education at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle; 1999–2001: Studied Fine Art at the Rhein-Neckar School of Fine Art, Mannheim; 1996–99: Studied Philosophy and Educational Sciences at the University of Mannheim

Dr Anja Hermann

Art historian; since 2014, research associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg; previously at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. Editor of the online journal FKW: Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture.

Prof. Dr Pierangelo Maset

Studied Art/Visual Communication, Philosophy, English and Sociology in Kassel, Göttingen, Berlin and Hamburg. Has been organising exhibitions, readings and performances since the late 1970s. Released records in the 1980s (Dr. Misch, Exkurs, Modern Entertainment, Kings of Crisis). Co-founder of the HYDE Kartell in Berlin. Has held teaching posts in Weimar, Kassel, Hamburg, Canterbury and Linz. Since 2001, Professor of Art and Art Education at the University of Lüneburg. Numerous publications in the fields of art, aesthetic education, aesthetics and art education. In 2004, ‘Fakten sind Terror’ was re-released on the Hamburg-based label NLW. In 2005, the novel ‘Klangwesen’ was published by the Berlin-based publisher kookbooks. In 2006, he became editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine *DAS PLATEAU*. In 2007, his first novel was published: *Laura oder die Tücken der Kunst*; most recently, *BEAUTY POLICE* (2015).

Prof. Dr Paul Mecheril

I was born in 1962. I grew up in more than 10 cities, two countries and many different places. I studied psychology, and a little philosophy, at the universities of Trier, Bielefeld, Vienna and Münster. I worked for a long time in the Department of Psychology at Münster. I spent even longer at the School of Education at the University of Bielefeld.
From March 2008 to September 2011, I held the university professorship in Intercultural Learning and Social Change at the Institute of Education at the University of Innsbruck. Since October 2011, I have been working at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. I live with my family in Bielefeld.uol.de/paedagogik/migration-und-bildung/team/paul-mecheril/curriculum-vitae/

Prof. Dr. des. Carmen Mörsch

Prof. Carmen Mörsch is Director of the Institute for Art Education (IAE) at Zurich University of the Arts. Her research focus is on art education as a critical and artistic practice, as well as the history of art education. Since 1995, she has been involved in projects, publications and research in the fields of art education and cultural education. From 2004 to 2008, she was a junior lecturer in Material Culture and its Didactics at the University of Oldenburg. Her research projects have been funded by, amongst others, the Swiss National Science Foundation and the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, and have formed part of pilot projects run by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Academic support, studies and evaluations commissioned by, amongst others, documenta 12, Pro Helvetia, the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg and the cultural departments of various Swiss cantons. Member of the international network ‘Another Roadmap for Arts Education’. Web: iae.zhdk.ch, another.zhdk.ch/

Dr Rahel Puffert

is an adjunct professor at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture (Art • Outreach • Education). Since 2013, she has been part of the artistic leadership ofthe “Werkhaus Münzviertel. A pilot project on the intertwining of education, art and neighbourhood work”in Hamburg. She enjoys working in collectives such as the artist groups “target: autonopop”, the “Culture & Social Movement” archive, and FRONTBILDUNG. She was a co-founder and editor of THE THING Hamburg. a platform for art and criticism from 2006–09, and facilitated 15 art projects in schools as part of ÜBER LEBENSKUNST.Schule from 2010–12. She was a scholarship holder at the Research Training Group “Aesthetic Education” at the University of Hamburg. She studied in Lüneburg and Vienna.

Wiebke Trunk, M.A.

Since October 2014, research assistant at the University of Oldenburg (Art • Art Education • Education). 2010–11: received a scholarship from the ifa as part of the research programme “Culture and Foreign Policy”, culminating in the study “Learning from One Another – Art Education in the Context of Cultural Diversity”; since 2007: advisor at the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa); Since 2003, has worked as a freelance art historian, lecturer, art educator, curator, artist, project manager and author; from 1997 to 2003, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart: Artistic assistant at the chair of Stage Design

Dr Kea Wienand

Art historian; since 2009, research associate at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg. Editor of the online journal FKW: Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture.

Dr Manuel Zahn

Since the 2015/16 winter semester, Dr Manuel Zahn has been acting as the holder of the professorship for Art Education, specialising in subject didactics, at the Braunschweig University of the Arts.

Research fellow at the Department of Art, Art History and Art Education at the University of Oldenburg; he completed his PhD in Hamburg in 2011 with a thesis on film education. From 2011 to 2015, he was a research fellow (post-doc) in the Media Education and Aesthetic Education Unit, School of Education, University of Hamburg, and is the author of the blog ‘Film-Bildung’.