Lecturers
Lecturers
Rahel Puffert (Associate Prof.) Dr phil.
is a mediator 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 the 'Werkhaus Münzviertel. Modellprojekt zur Verschränkung von Pädagogik, Kunst & Quartiersarbeit' in Hamburg, she was co-publisher and editor of 'THE THING Hamburg. Platform for Art & Criticism from 2006-09 and process facilitator of 15 art projects at schools as part of 'ÜBER LEBENSKUNST. School' from 2010-12. Collaboration with artist groups such as "target: autonopop" or Tumorchester. Doctorate with the title "Die Kunst und ihre Folgen. On the genealogy of art mediation". Scholarship holder in the graduate programme "Aesthetic Education", Hamburg, studied cultural studies at the University of Lüneburg, postgraduate course in "Curator for Communication in Museums", Vienna/St. Pölten. Her research focuses are: Genealogies of art mediation, educational and social functions of art, art in public and other spaces, e.g. schools.
Laurence Rassel
is a cultural worker who can act as curator, teacher, organiser based in Brussels. From 2008 to 2015 she was the Director of Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, an institution created in 1984 by the artist Antoni Tàpies to promote the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art(www.fundaciotapies.org/). From 1997 to 2008, Rassel was member of Constant, a non-profit association and interdisciplinary arts-lab based and active in Brussels dealing with free software, copyright alternatives and (cyber)feminism(www.constantvzw.org/).
Rudolf zur Lippe Prof. Dr phil., Dipl. rer. pol.
was born in Berlin in 1937. He spent his childhood in the countries of eastern Germany. He spent his grammar school years in Detmold. He studied law, political science and economics in Bonn and Göttingen (Dipl. rer. pol.) and then medieval and modern history in Heidelberg and Paris. He has been a student of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim since 1960. He earned his degree as a freelance assistant for the Heidelberg daily newspapers. During this time and later, he was a painter, learned theatre directing and made stage designs. In 1965, he completed his doctorate with a dissertation on French policy towards Germany during the Weimar Republic (Dr phil.). From 1965 he worked as a translator for Gabriel Marcel, then as an editor at Propyläenverlag and later at the Institute for Non-European Music Cultures. In 1969, he began his philosophical work with Theodor W. Adorno on a history of the body in modernity, which he completed in 1973 with the venia legendi for social philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Frankfurt's School of Philosophy. From 1971 to 1976, he taught philosophy in Frankfurt, latterly also sociology in the professorship for cultural theory. From 1974 he held the Chair of Aesthetics at the University of Oldenburg, where he initially devoted much of his time to the federal model experiment "single-phase teacher training" and the trialling of interdisciplinary project studies. In 1981 and 1982 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 1982, he founded the Institute for Practical Anthropology, with which he brought a scientific exhibition on the "Geometrisation of Man" to various countries around the world. Editor (together with Gerd Selle) of the journal "POIESIS - practical-theoretical ways of aesthetic self-education". Initiator of the "Karl Jaspers Lectures on Questions of the Time". Rudolf zur Lippe lives and works as a philosopher, exhibition organiser and visual artist in Hude and Berlin. He conceptualises his projects as part of his foundation "Forum der Kulturen". Most recently published: Making thinking dance. Philosophy of Change and Movement, Karl Alber: Freiburg im Breisgau (2010) 2014.
Pierangelo Maset Prof. Dr phil.
studied art/visual communication, philosophy, English and sociology in Kassel, Göttingen, Berlin and Hamburg. He has published numerous articles on art education and has been a professor of art and art education at the University of Lüneburg since 2001. His first novel Klangwesen was published by Kookbooks in 2005, followed two years later by Laura und die Tücken der Kunst, which was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2007.
He has been organising exhibitions, readings and performances since the end of the 1970s and is also considered a co-founder of the HYDE cartel in Berlin. In the 1980s, he released several records with various bands, including as a member of the first German rap band Dr Misch. The record Fakten sind Terror by the band ExKurs was re-released on CD in 2004. Since 2006, he has been editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Das PLATEAU.Maset publishes in the fields of art, aesthetic education, aesthetics and art education. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierangelo_Maset
Saraya Gomis
Is an anti-discrimination officer for schools in the Berlin Senate Education Department and a teacher. She teaches French, history and drama at the Ernst Reuter School in Wedding,where she has a half-time position. Her father is from Senegal, her mother is German and she was born in Berlin.
Edit Monár
is a curator. She holds an MA in Art History and Art Theory from Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest. From 2000 to 2005 she was director of the Studio Gallery Budapest, a non-profit exhibition venue of the Studio of Young Artists Association. From 2005 to 2007 she was curator of the Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle in Budapest and from 2007 to 2009 director of the independent art institution Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo. Since 2015, she has run the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg with Marcel Schwierin.
Marcel Schwierin
(*1965) is a curator and filmmaker. Co-founder of the Werkleitz Biennale, the experimental film database cinovid and the Arab Shorts Festival in Cairo. Films include: The Images (experimental film, 1994), Eternal Beauty (documentary film, 2003). He has regularly curated film programmes for Goethe-Institutes, Werkleitz Biennales, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and others. From 2010-2015 he was the film & video curator of transmediale. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg together with Edit Molnár.
Constanze Eckert
In addition to carrying out her own artistic mediation projects(eck_ik büro für arbeit mit kunst), Constanze Eckert works in professionalisation and as a consultant for projects, programmes and institutions at the interface of art and education. She studied at the Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences and at the Institute for Art in Context, UdK Berlin; she is co-founder of arttransponder e.V. and the KontextSchule, Berlin. In addition to artistic mediation projects, teaching assignments and further training courses focusing on teachers and artists, she was, for example, an artistic-scientific accompanying researcher in the pilot project "Interface Art - Mediation" of the Landesverband der Kunstschulen Niedersachsen e.V. at the University of Oldenburg (2005 to 2007) and project leader in the pilot project "kunst - raum -erinnerung. On the connection of historical learning, cultural-educational practice and contemporary artistic strategies at Nazi memorials" for the educational association IJBS Sachsenhausen.e.V. (2007 - 2008) From 2011 - 2015 she was responsible for the qualification of all actors in the model programme "Cultural Agents for Creative Schools" as academy director. Details at: www.kulturagenten-programm.de
Wiebke Trunk, Mag. Art.
As an art mediator, I combine theory and practice. I studied stage design at the Art Academy in Stuttgart (under Prof. Jürgen Rose) and 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 National Socialism. Since 2008 I have been working on a dissertation at the University of Oldenburg with the working title "The ideological function of the mediation of art in the Nazi era - analysis of the regulated introduction in the art reports on the Haus der Deutschen Kunst 1937-44 in Munich" (supervisor: Prof. Dr Silke Wenk). Since 2014 I have been a research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture: Art - Mediation - Education.
Alexander Henschel Dr phil. des.
since 2018: Visiting Professor of Art Education at the HFBK Hamburg; 2018: PhD on the topic "What does mediation mean here? Begriffliche Untersuchungen und logische Überlegungen zu einer Kunstvermittlung der Differenz" (University of Oldenburg); since 2018: University lecturer at the Institute of Art Studies-Film Studies-Art Education at the University of Bremen; since 2014: Teaching staff for special tasks at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg; 2010-2016: Research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg;2010-2018: Doctoral candidate in the Art Education doctoral programme; 2008-2010: research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim; since 2006: freelance artist and art mediator in theory and practice; 2001-2006: studied art education, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle; 1999-2001: studied fine arts, Freie Kunstschule Rhein-Neckar, Mannheim; 1996-1999: studied philosophy and educational science, University of Mannheim.
Nora Landkammer
born 1983 in Vienna, is an art mediator and researches mediation from the perspective of colonialism and racism. She studied Art and Communicative Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Hispanic Studies at the University of Vienna and has worked as a mediator for contemporary art, including at documenta 12 (2007), in the Kunsthalle Wien and in the Shedhalle in Zurich. At the end of project TRACES, she is currently working on the mediation of conflict-ridden cultural heritage. Her dissertation project is dedicated to decolonising perspectives in the mediation of ethnological museums. She is a research associate and deputy head of the Institute for Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts, teaches in the Master Art Education curatorial studies programme at ZHdK and is active in the international research network Another Roadmap for Arts Education.
Sandra Langenhahn
works as a teacher and head teacher for the subjects Art and German at GS Bürgeresch. Previously (until July 2018), she represented the subject of art in teacher training as a lecturer in the practical phase at the University of Oldenburg and subject seminar leader at the Studienseminar in Oldenburg and teacher at the GS Staakenweg and the Realschule Ofenerdiek; before that, she was a research assistant at the University of Vechta in the subject of German (media didactics).
- Various projects between school and artists' (e.g. within the project: "ausgezeichnet", the Edith-Russ-Haus, Horst-Janssen-Museum)
2008 Second State Examination LA GHRS; 2007 First State Examination for the subjects Art and German; 2000 Master's degree for the subjects Art/History/German Studies (University of Oldenburg)
Claudia Ehgartner
is a founding member of trafo.K. She is an art and cultural mediator. She completed the postgraduate curatorial programme for communication in exhibitions and museums. Since 1992 she has worked as a mediator at MMKSL Vienna, 'StörDienst' association; Kunsthalle Wien; 1999-2002 editor of the magazine 'faxen' of the Austrian Association of Cultural Mediators in Museums and Exhibitions; since 2000 head of the art mediation department at Kunsthalle Wien; since 2002 lecturer and 2002-2006 member of the core team of the university course 'ecm - exhibition and cultural communication management' at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; publications and lectures in the field of art mediation. From 2013 she was head of art education and visitor services at the MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. She is currently Head of Art Education at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
Paul Mecheril Prof. Dr.
grew up in Germany and India. He studied psychology and philosophy at the universities of Trier, Bielefeld, Vienna and Münster in the 1980s. He completed his doctorate in psychology at the University of Münster with a thesis on linguistic events in psychotherapy conversations and his habilitation in the subject of educational science at the University of Bielefeld with a study on (multiple) affiliations in the migration society. From March 2008 to September 2011, he held the university professorship "Intercultural Learning and Social Change" at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck; he was also head of the Innsbruck Institute of Educational Science. Since October 2011, he has been a professor at the Institute of Educational Sciences at the University of Oldenburg. The professorship was initially entitled "Intercultural Education"; since 2016 it has been called "Migration and Education". Paul Mecheril is also Director of the Centre for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies (CMC).
Paul Mecheril's teaching and research interests focus on migration education, pedagogical professionalism, racism and domination theory, cultural studies and methodological and methodological questions of interpretation. He is a member of the Council for Migration.