kunsthochzwei

Schwarzer Text auf weißem Grund: 16. Tagung des Netzwerks Forschung Kulturelle Bildung, radikal - widerständig - streitbar?+ Kulturelle Bildung als soziale und gesellschaftspolitische Praxis, 18.–19. September 2025 am Campus Arts and Social Change, Hamburg-Harburg, Deadline 18. März | Black text on a white background: 16th Conference of the Network Research Cultural Education radical - resistant - controversial?+ Cultural education as a social and socio-political practice September 18-19, 2025 at the Campus Arts and Social Change, Hamburg-Harburg Deadline March 18

radical – resistant – disputatious?!

Cultural education and aesthetic practice are – in research, teaching and practice – directly integrated into social contexts. The 16th conference of the Cultural Education Network on September 18-19, 2025 at our Faculty of Arts, Health and Social Science of the Medical School Hamburg is dedicated to this content. Read more →

Foto eines Pinsels und eines Rührbesens, die beide mit Farbe versehen sind

study art therapy 2.0

Now there’s an update to my popular blog post about studying art therapy. I am regularly asked two things: whether I can recommend studying art therapy and where you can study art therapy. The first question is easy to answer: Yup. Art therapy is awesome and I would choose it again. This blog post on universities with art therapy courses in Germany is dedicated to the second question. Read more →

art + anti-sanism

Digital, free of charge and open to all. On April 10, 2024, there will be our next film screening of FACES OF AN EXHIBITION: We will show the documentary on the work of our Pop-up Institute at our Campus Arts and Change of the Medical School Hamburg – including a Q&A session with collaborators. Be part of it! Read more →

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empirics vs. art theory

Out now! My latest scientific article is now published at the Creativity Research Journal. It investigates a factor structure of my Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) and discusses current gaps between art theory and empirical research on art. All data, methodology, and a preprint version are freely available under the premises of Open Science. Read more →

Eine Person von hinten, die mit beiden Händen an eine Wand mit schwarzer Farbe malt. Darüber steht: Gesichter einer Ausstellung – Ein Film über Kunst und Schizophrenie

faces of an exhibition

Can art tell something about schizophrenia that language cannot express? FACES OF AN EXHIBITION is an immersive documentary that accompanies the first project of our Pop-Up Institute. A group of artists with and without schizophrenia experience create mental – an art festival on schizophrenia and against sanism. The documentary is now freely available. Read more →

Screenshot der Titelseite der Publikation | screenshot of the publication’s title page

delir in pictorial works

Does delirium present itself in pictorial works? My colleagues just published a clinical study on this question, which uses my Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA). It is a systematic analysis of images of people in an geriatric context. As a co-author, I provided methodical advice on the use and analysis of Rizba. Read more →

A screenshot of the scientif article | Ein Screenshot des wissenschaftlichen Artikels

open editors

Make things open, it makes them better. We just published our scientific article addressing diversity of editorial boards in social science. I’m so happy about this lovely postdisciplinary collaboration with Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher and Tamara Heck within the Open Science Fellow Program by Wikimedia Germany. The name speaks for itself: It’s completely open including Open Source and Open Access. Read more →