Kerstin Schoch
artist
art therapist
psychologist
*1983 at Heilbronn/Neckar (Germany)
education
since 2016
PhD candidate (cand. phil.), Witten/Herdecke University,
Faculty of Health, Department Psychology and Psychotherapy
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Ostermann, Chair for research methods and statistics in psychology
2010 – 2014
B.Sc. in Psychology, Mannheim University
2005
Erasmus studies creative art therapy, Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmengen University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
2003 – 2007
Artistic training at Almut Glinin and Prof. Andreas Mayer-Brennenstuhl, HKT – Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences
2003 – 2008
Diploma in art therapy, HKT – Nürtingen University of Applied Sciences
1993 – 2002
Zabergäu Gymnasium Brackenheim, Abitur
work
since 2021
The Pop-up Institute, Berlin
Own third-party project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg
Research assistant
since 2020
Open Science Fellows Programm, Wikimedia Germany
Mentor
since 2020
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Berlin
Lecturer at the university studies art therapy, consulting hour on research methods
since 2019
HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg
Equal opportunities representant
since 2018
HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences
Lecturer at the university studies Creative Arts Therapies (HKT)
2017
SRH University Heidelberg of Applied Sciences
Lecturer at the faculty of social sciences and law
2016 – 2020
HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg, Institute for Art Therapy and Research, Research focus artistic interventions in prevention and health promotion funded by VolkswagenStiftung and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
Research assistant
2016
Euro Akademie Berlin
Lecturer at the professional school for social pedagogy
2014 – 2017
Hochschule Mannheim University of Applied Sciences
Lecturer at the Department social work
2013 – 2016
Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim
Artistic projects including exhibitions with children and adolescents in the paediatric psychiatry
2008 – 2010
Autonomous women’s shelter Heidelberg
Art therapeutic project with children and adolescents who experienced domestic violence
2009 – 2015
Child and youth welfare center Wespinstift, Mannheim
Art therapeutic special service for paediatric psychiatric wards
2009
County hospital Darmstadt-Dieburg
Art therapist in neurological rehabilitation
since 2008
kunsthochzwei
Free-lance work (e.g. exhibitions, workshops, projects for institutions)
2007 – 2008
Free-lance work at Gent, Belgium
2006
ArtSourceLab, Berlin
Artistic work with multinational traumatized adolescents
2006
Xenion – psycho-social support for politically persecutees and survivors of torture, Berlin, internship semester including setting up an art therapeutic supply for traumatized children and infants
2005
Intercultural artistic projects with adolescents from different nationalities in the Netherlands, France and Spain
2004
Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg
Art within architecture project with male inmates in forensic psychiatry
2003 – 2005
Wohlfahrtswerk für Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Co-group manager at the voluntary year of social service
2002 – 2003
Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg
Art therapy internship in forensic and addiction psychiatry
2002 – 2003
Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg
Voluntary year of social service in addiction psychiatry
scholarships + grants
2020
The Pop-up Institute: Reducing stigma by means of Creative Arts Therapies
World knowledge – Structural support for ‘rare subjects’
Rare subjects mediate world knowledge
Funding line 2: Science communkation
Volkswagen Foundation
2019
DAAD congress travel grant Queen Mary University London
2018 – 2019
Fellowship Open Science funded by Wikimedia Germany, Stifterverband and VolkswagenStiftung
2014 – 2016
Scholarship funded by Mathilde-Planck Foundation
2005
Erasmus scholarship for studying at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmengen University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
European Commission
memberships
since 2017
Founding member of the German scientific society for Creative Arts Therapies (WFKT)
since 2016
Member of and speaker of the doctoral candidates in the PhD colloquium of the Creative Arts Therapies Research Association (FVKT)
since 2015
Member of the German association for art therapy (DFKGT)
presentations, workshops, posters
2019
Empirische Bildanalyse: Validierung von RizbA an bildnerischen Arbeiten erwachsener Laien [Empiricial picture analysis: Validating RizbA on pictorial works of adult amateurs]
Symposium of the der German scientific society for Creative Arts Therapies (WFKT): Creative Arts Therapies work, but how? On the state of mechanist studies in the Creative Arts Therapies
SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg
Poster
2019
Measuring art: RizbA, a quantitative rating instrument assessing pictorial expression
Inaugural International Art Therapy Practice/ Research Conference, Queen Mary University of London
Presentation
2019
Objectivity in pictorial expression: RizbA, a quantitative rating instrument for formal picture analysis
Speaking Through Art: Languages of Art Therapy in Europe
European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT) Vienna meeting 2019, Vienna
Presentation
2019
What children’s pictures can tell us: Development of a psychometric test for measuring pictorial expression (RizbA)
XXXVI. DGKJP Conference, German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Mannheim
Poster
2019
Neues aus der Bildanalyse: Das Ratinginstrument für zweidimensionale bildnerische Arbeiten (RizbA) in Dokumentation und Forschung [News from picture analysis: The ratinginstrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) in documentation and research]
Further training at the professional association for creating psychotherapy and art therapy (GPK), Zürich
Day workshop
2018
Kunsttherapie und Wissenschaft: Erprobung eines quantitativen Ratinginstruments zur Bildanalyse (RizbA) [Art therapy and science: Testing of a quantiative ratinginstrument for picture analysis (RizbA)]
Psychodynamics of Creativity – Creative Arts Therapies in clinical fields of work – Annual conference of the international society for art, design and therapy (IGKGT)
Sigmund Freud Private University, Berlin
Workshop
2018
Kunsttherapie und Wissenschaft [Art therapy and science]
Practice Performance Projects: Symposium Creative Arts Therapies
HfWU University of Applied Sciences, University studies Creative Arts Therapies and DFKGT, Nürtingen
Workshop
2018
Psychotraumata in Bildern: Ein quantitatives Ratinginstrument für zweidimensionale bildnerische Arbeiten (RizbA) [Psychotrauma in pictures: A quantiative ratinginstrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA)]
Art therapy in migration: 1st symposium of the Working group intercultural art therapy (AGIK), Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin
Presentation
2018
Bildanalyse 2.0: Entwicklung eines quantitativen Ratinginstruments für zweidimensionale bildnerische Arbeiten (RizbA) [Picture analysis 2.0: Development of a quantiative ratinginstrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA)]
Conference of the German scientific association for Creative Arts Therapies (WFKT), The academy of arts education, Remscheid
Poster
2017
Where art thou? Necessity and development of a quantitative psychometric rating instrument measuring pictorial expression (RizbA)
19th Herbstakademie embodied aesthetics: Resonance in perception, expression and therapy, Heidelberg University
Presentation
2017
Kunst messen? Methodische Entwicklung eines quantitativen Ratinginstruments für zweidimensionale bildnerische Arbeiten (RizbA) [Measuring art? Methodical development of a quantiative rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA)]
3rd Research conference of Creative Arts Therapies, Hamburg
Poster
2017
Kunst als Brücke: Analyse des Bildnerischen Ausdrucks traumatisierter Kinder anhand quantitativer und qualitativer Instrumente [Art as a bridge: Analysis of pictorial expresion of traumatized childen using quantitative and qualitative instruments]
XXXV. DGKJP congress 2017, Ulm
Poster
2016
Psychotrauma in Kinderbildern: Eine methodische Betrachtung anhand eines quantitativen Instrumentes zu Bildanalyse [Psychotrauma in children’s pictures: A methodical view based on a quantiative instrument for picture analysis]
Lecture series, HKS – University of Applied Sciences, Ottersberg
Presentation
2016
Kunst als Brücke: Analyse des Bildnerischen Ausdrucks traumatisierter Kinder anhand quantitativer und qualitativer Instrumente [Art as a bridge: Analysis of pictorial expresion of traumatized childen using quantitative and qualitative instruments]
Guest talk at lecture series, HKS – University of Applied Sciences, Ottersberg
Poster
2011
Kunsttherapie als prozessorientierte, tiefenpsychologisch-psychodynamische Arbeitsweise [Art therapy as a process-oriented, depthpsychological and psychodynamic oriented method]
Training at the paediatric psychiatry at Zentralinstituts für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim
Presentation
exhibitions
2018
Schimmere – für die, die waren, sind und sein werden
Solo exhibition at Pêle Mêle, Berlin
2017
Schimmere – für die, die waren, sind und sein werden
Solo exhibition at the gallery of SRH University of Applied Sciences, Heidelberg
2013
Fremdbilder
Group exhibition photography at Breidenbach Studios, Heidelberg
2013
Happiness is expensive
Solo exhibition at Orange, Heidelberg
2007
Diploma final exhibiton, Stuttgart
2004
Students of the HKT
Group exhibition at HKT – University of Applied Sciences, Nürtingen
2004
Eingesperrt
Group exhibition at HKT – University of Applied Sciences, Nürtingen
seit 2003
Kunst am Neubau
Permanent exhibition at Klinikum am Weissenhof, Weinsberg