Prof. Dr. Nina Gerlach
Rector
Ph. +49 251 83 61330
rektorat[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 331
Nina Gerlach (born in 1979) has been Rector of the University of Fine Arts Münster since 2021 and Professor of aesthetics and art sciences since 2015. Gerlach studied European art history, ancient history, media and communication studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim (M. A. in 2005) and, until her intermediate exam (2002), media art/film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.
From 2005 to 2010, she completed her doctorate in European art history at the University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. Michael Hesse, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller/TU Dresden) and was a fellow at Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks (2008–2009). Her dissertation, published in 2012 (Gartenkunst im Spielfilm. Das Filmbild als Argument. Wilhelm Fink Verlag), highlights the role of gardens as a visual argument in epistemological and moral philosophical discourses of feature films.
Gerlach was a member of the NCCR Iconic Criticism (Eikones/University of Basel) from 2010 to 2013. Here, she examined the integration of technological innovations in video art and their displays using the example of online video portals. The project introduces theories of interpictoriality and cognitive metaphors into contemporary art theory.
From 2006 to 2015, Gerlach was a lecturer at the universities of Heidelberg, Basel, Friedrichshafen and Cologne and a substitute professor at the University of Fine Arts Münster.
Nina Gerlach represents an art science that focuses on the central challenges of contemporary society.
Frank Bartsch
Head of Administration
Ph. +49 251 83 61330
bartsch[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: by appointment
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 329
Frank Bartsch was born in 1966 in Lippstadt/Westphalia and first studied economics and sports, then law at the University of Göttingen. He passed the first state examination in Göttingen in 1994 and the second state examination in Dortmund in 1996,
gaining his first professional experience after his first state examination as a legal assistant at the law firm Rödl & Partner Nuremberg within the scope of a temporary consulting assignment at Treuhandanstalt Halle a. d. Saale. Frank Bartsch was admitted to the bar between 1997 and 1998.
The first professional contact with the education market was already made during his legal internship: in October 1995, he received a teaching assignment for business law and business administration at the International Business School Lippstadt gGmbh, where he worked as an assistant to the business and study management from 1996 to December 1998. In 1999, he changed over to the state education sector as in-house counsel and representative of the head of administration of the University of Hildesheim.
In April 2001, Frank Bartsch was appointed Head of Administration of the University of Fine Arts Münster. From 2007 to 2008, he was also acting head of the administration’s office at the Robert Schumann University of Music and Media in Düsseldorf.
In addition to his work as head of administration, Frank Bartsch is a member in numerous committees and works as a lecturer. He holds various honorary offices and is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Verein zur Förderung des nationalen und internationalen Wissenschaftsrecht (Association for the Promotion of National and International Science Law).
Frank Bartsch holds the Medal of Honour of Robert Schumann University of Music and Media in Düsseldorf and has been awarded several teaching prizes by the University of Münster-Weiterbildungs-gGmbH.
Prof.in Suchan Kinoshita
Prorector / Deputy Rector / Professorship for Painting
Ph. +49 251 83 61017
kinoshita[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 017
Born 1960 in Tokyo/Japan, lives and works in Brussel, Belgium. Rhythmics and new music theatre studies at the Music Academy in Cologne between 1981 and 1985. Between 1983 and 1988, worked as a member of the TAM ensemble located in a former school building in Krefeld-Fischeln, focusing on experimental forms of performance. Between 1988 and 1990, participant at the Jan van Eyck Academy, a postgraduate studio program in Maastricht. Won the prix de Rome in 1993 in Amsterdam. PS1 residency in New York in 1994. Advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht between 1997 and 2002. Since Nov.2006 teaching at the Kunstakademie Münster.
- 2022 Architektonische Psychodramen, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster
- 2021 Architektonische Psychodramen, PA/////KT Amsterdam
- 2019 PLATZhalter takingPLACE surPLACE, Stuk Leuven
- 2019 proposition d’en face, public floorheating , Pompidou Canal Brussel
- 2018 Das A und O vom wohnen, LLS Paleis
- 2016 Operating Theatre, institute de carton
- 2012 Tokonoma, Gallerie Nadia Vilenne
- 2022 chambre de visite, Maison STepman, Brussel (together with Kurt Ryslavy)
- 2021 Da Capo, work based on the repeated lockdown of Art Basels 50th anniversary
- 2020 GAP WALK GYM, Risquon-Tout, Wiels Brussel
- 2020 Karaoke Paintings, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens (together with Olivier Foulon)
- 2019 le petit circle brusselois, institute de carton Brussel
- 2015 tokonoma, Mini Goethe, New York
- 2012 suchkino, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Stefan Hölscher
Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching / Research Associate in Art Didactics and Aesthetic Education
Ph. +49 251 83 61330
hoelscher[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 307
Stefan Hölscher (born in 1965) has been Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Fine Arts Münster since 2021, where he has worked as a research associate for art didactics in teaching, as a representative for the reform of teacher education (and training) and as coordinator for school-based practical phases since 2003.
From 2010 to 2015, he was primarily responsible for the conceptual and organisational implementation of the reform processes of the teacher training programme at the art academies in Düsseldorf and Münster. Since then, he has repeatedly acted as an advisor on questions of teaching degree programmes at various art universities in Germany (including the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and the Berlin University of the Arts) and authored a position paper of the German universities of the arts (Rectors’ Conference of the German Universities of the Arts, RKK) on the Bologna reform of teaching degree programmes.
Hölscher studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, education and philosophy at the University of Münster and painting and graphic arts at the University of Fine Arts Münster. He completed these studies as a graduate mathematician (Diplom, 1996) and with the first state examination for secondary schools with the subjects of art and mathematics (2002).
- Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Fine Arts Münster since 2021
- Liaison lecturer of the University of Fine Arts Münster (2016 – 2020)
- Chairperson of the art study group for the practical semester in the Master of Education (since 2013)
- Member of the steering group for the practical semester of the district of Münster in cooperation with the University of Münster, the University Centre for Teacher Education of the University of Münster and the district government of Münster (since 2013)
- Member of the teaching degree task force of the Rectors’ Conference of the German Universities of the Arts (2011)
- Member of the Senate of the University of Fine Arts Münster (since 2008)
Detailed profile of Stefan Hölscher (in German)
Prof. Nicoline van Harskamp
Performative art
vanharskamp[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours by appointment by e-mail
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 129
Website of Nicoline van Harskamp
Website of the class of van Harskamp
Englishes MOOC – A project from Nicoline van Harskamp
Nicoline van Harskamp was born in the Netherlands in 1975 and attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Den Haag, Chelsea College in London and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Her performative works were staged live at, among others, the Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tate Modern in London, KunstWerke in Berlin, Witte de With in Rotterdam, New Museum in New York, Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, Archive Kabinett/Scriptings in Berlin, Tenderpixel in London and the Kaaitheater in Brussels.
Nicoline van Harskamp's recent solo exhibitions include Project Arts Centre in Dublin, Kunsthalle Münster, BAK in Utrecht, C3A in Cordoba and Kunstraum in London. She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions such as at the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Frac Lorraine in Metz, Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, De Appel in Amsterdam, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Clark House in Bombay, Ellen Art Gallery in Montreal, Ujadovski Castle in Warsaw, MUAC in Mexico City, Serralves Museum in Porto, Waterside Contemporary in London, Manifesta 9 in Genk, Performa 11 in New York, and the biennales of Sydney, Gothenburg, Taipei, Moscow, Ireland (Limerick), Bucharest and Shanghai.
Nicoline van Harskamp works with video, installation, and scripted live performance. Her projects can take several years to complete, and are exhibited in various stages of the process.
In Yours in Solidarity (2010 – 2013) she tells histories from the global anarchist movement after 1989, starting from a letter archive. In the series Englishes (2014 – 2016), she uses varieties of internationally-spoken English to propose a future shaped by the ubiquity and constant evolution of that language. The works PDGN (2016) and Some Name Some Noun Simply (2017) propose what such a spoken vehicular language might sound like in the future. My Name is Language/Mein Name ist Sprache (2018 – 2019) considers the translation and creolisation of personal names in multilingual societies. Englishes Mooc (2019 and ongoing) is an art project in the form of a Massive Online Open Course.
The students of the performative art class work in very different ways and media but share an interest in performativity in the broadest sense. Half of their spaces and resources are dedicated to studio practice, and half to programmed activities in the class' project area. They take from the tradition of performance art not only the media of body, voice, movement and time, but also the focus on cross-disciplinarity and solidarity. Collaborative practice is supported and valued as much as individual practice. Throughout the year they organize projects that allow (but do not oblige) students to research a specific methodology through the production of a work.
In Performance Room (since 2016), students each have one week to develop a performative work for the lens of a single camera. In Actors and Directors (2018), students instruct a professional actor in a work of their own, and then evaluate and adapt their directing skills with them. In 2019 the class focusses on scripting.
Guests that joined the colloquium since 2016 include the artists Mikhail Karikis, Roi Alter, Ahmet Ö?üt and Richard John Jones; the scholars Avishek Ganguly (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence) and Aneta Rostowska (Akademie der Kulturen der Welt); and the performers Monica Reyes, Serge Fouha and Kenneth Phillip George.
Some works of the class can be seen on vimeo:
Ariane Brüning
Rector’s / Head of Administration’s Office
Ph. +49 251 83 61330
rektorat[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 330
Barbara Kopel
Rector’s / Head of Administration’s Office
Ph. +49 251 83 61330
rektorat[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 330
Frank Bartsch
Head of Administration
Ph. +49 251 83 61330
bartsch[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: by appointment
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 329
Sabine Wiggers
Head of Department: Staff / Deputy Head of Administration
Ph. +49 251 83 61317
wiggers[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 317
Tino Stöveken
Head of Department: Academic and Student Affairs
Ph. +49 251 83 61205
stoeveken[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 205
Anna Lea Fächner
Student Services
Ph. +49 251 83 61208
faechner[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: mondays to thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 14:00
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 207
Esther Nienhaus
Student Services
Ph. +49 251 83 61207
nienhaus[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: mondays – thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00 and 13:00 – 14:00
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 206
Wiebke Lammert
Practical semester, study coordination, subject-specific student counselling
Ph. +49 251 83 61204
w.lammert[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: mondays – thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 204
Andreas Schweigmann
Head of Department: Finances, procurement
Ph. +49 251 83 61321
schweigmann[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 321
Yvonne Broszkus
Representative of the Head of Department / Budget, Procurement
Ph. +49 251 83 61309
broszkus[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 309
Vanessa Fehrensen
Finances
Ph. +49 251 83 61320
vanessa.fehrensen[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 319
Sabina Mazurek-Kronshagen
Finances, procurement
Ph. +49 251 83 61319
s.mazurek[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 319
Lydia Teupen
Finances, procurement, inventory
Ph. +49 251 83 61322
teupen[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 322
Sabine Wiggers
Head of Department: Staff / Deputy Head of Administration
Ph. +49 251 83 61317
wiggers[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 317
Miriam Hödt
Staff, travel expenses, lecturers
Ph. +49 251 83 61315
hoedt[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 315
Olga Listau
Staff / student assistant contracts / further and advanced training
Ph. +49 251 83 61314
listau[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 314
General inquiries and reports of damage/defects to the buildings or building services should be directed to the Department 4 mailbox: liegenschaften[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Bernhard Trautmann
Head of Department: Properties / facility management
Ph. +49 251 83 61328
trautmannb[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 328
Ludger Hackenesch
Domestic and driving service
Ph. +49 251 83 61124
hackenesch[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 124
Lucas Schlüter
Domestic service / occupational safety specialist
Ph. +49 251 83 61062
l.schlueter[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 062
Stefanie Steinkirchner
Transport service
Ph. +49 251 83 61327
steinkir[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 327
Pascal Vehren
Building services
Ph. +49 251 83 61063
p.vehren[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 062
Mario Wolter
Domestic service
Ph. +49 251 83 61100
mario.wolter[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Service hours at the gate:
Mo., 14:00 – 18:00
Tu., 10:00 – 18:00
We. – Fr., 10:00 – 12:30
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 046
Marc Hebben
Head of the IT and Digitalisation Department
Ph. +49 251 83 61212
marc.hebben[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 212
Marc Hebben
Head of department IT Administration
Ph. +49 251 83 61212
marc.hebben[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 212
Jannik Benterbusch
IT-Project management
Ph. +49 251 83 61211
jannik.benterbusch[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 212a
Radoslaw Gadaj
IT-Systemadministration
Ph. +49 251 83 61213
radoslaw.gadaj[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 212a
Veysel Fidan
Head of department IT research an teaching
Ph. +49 251 83 61022
fidanv[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 022
Philipp Teutenberg
IT-Systemadministration
Ph. +49 251 83 61028
teutenbe[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 028
Marcel Henschke
Egov (Act to promote electronic government) / OZG (Online access act) coordinator
Ph. +49 251 83 61224
henschke[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 224
Martin Lehmann
Head of Press, Communication, Media Department
Ph. +49 251 83 61137
martin.lehmann[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours:
mondays, 13:00 – 16:00
tuesdays, – wednesdays 7:30 – 16:00
fridays, 7:30 – 14:00
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 137
Rebecca Durante
Press, Communication, Media / Media Design Department
Ph. +49 251 83 61103
durante[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 103
Annette Lauke
Press, Communication, Media/Internal Communication Department, editing of course catalogue
Ph. +49 251 83 61101
lauke[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: mondays – thursdays, 8:30 – 12:30
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 103
Sandra Musholt
Press, Communication, Media Department / offers for prospective and first-year students / alumni
Ph. +49 251 83 61102
musholt[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Office hours: mondays – fridays 9:00 – 14:00
and by appointment
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 103
Hanna Leitner
Quality Management Department
Ph. +49 251 83 61302
leitnerh[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 303
The Student Parliament (StuPa) is the highest decision-making student body.
Contact
President of the StuPa: Zharaa Khanafer
Deputy: Jakob Mönch
Further members:
- Jona Bal
- Lisa Nachtmans
- Nura Mir Yousef
Deputies:
- Zeynep Efe
- Karli Feist
stupa[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
The General Students’ Committee (AStA) represents the students. It carries out the resolutions of the Student Parliament and manages the day-to-day administration of the student body.
Contact
AStA of the University of Fine Arts Münster
Leonardo Campus 2
Room 061
48149 Münster
Phone: +49 (0)251 83 61061
Chair of the AStA: Rieke Albertin
Deputy: Tomte Indira Salome Rieder
asta[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Finance Unit: Jennifer Rommel
j_romm02@uni-muenster.de
Treasurer Unit: Joel Rademacher
radermaj[at]uni-muenster.de
International Students Unit: Sierra Plura
kaasta_international@gmx.de
Facilities and Lending Unit: Alma Mariama Camara
kaastaausleihe[at]outlook.de
Eleven experts from the European art and music scene advise the state on the further development of North Rhine-Westphalia’s art academies and their artistic study programmes.
The members of the Advisory Board were appointed by the Ministry in consultation with the art academies. Their term of office is five years.
The Art Academy Advisory Board accompanies the music universities in Detmold, Düsseldorf and Cologne, the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, the art academies in Düsseldorf and Münster and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
