Universität Witten-Herdecke:

2004-2006

Research assistant and cultural officer

- Seminars in philosophy and cultural reflection with a focus on art
- Seminars in the Study Fundamental of the university

Medicine

Dentistry

Economics

- Supervision of the Artist in Residence program with exhibitions at the university and studio visits:

SS 2005 Hartwig Kompa, painting;
WS 2005 Karl-Manfred Rennertz, sculpture;
SS 2006 Katharina Sieverding, photography

- Supervising of the Kunst am Bau project with acquisition of third-party funding
- Establishing of the university's own collection

(WS 2004) Seminar mit Exkursion:  Genese der Abstraktion, Exkursion: Folkwangmuseum Essen

(SS 2005) Seminar mit Gastrednerin:  Wahrnehmungstheorie, Gast: Dr. Angela Martini, Witten/Herdecke mit Exkursion/Vortrag Museum Ludwig, Köln: mit Vortrag von Bazon Brock
(SS 2005) Workshop mit Ausstellung: Artist in Residence: Hartwig Kompa, Oberhausen,

(07/2005) Tagesseminar mit Exkursion: Videonale 10 - Festival zur zeitgenössischen Videokunst, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kuratorengespräch

(WS 2005) Seminar mit Exkursion:  Kunstströmungen nach 1945.
Exkursionen: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Gespräch mit dem Museumsdirektor Dr. Michael Fehr, Kunstmuseum Bonn

(WS 2005) Workshop: Artist in Residence: Hartwig Kompa, Oberhausen, MalereiMalerei

(11/2005) Vortrag in der Seminarreihe Kulturreflexion: Ernst Cassirer, Philosophie der Symbolischen Formen
(11/2005) Tagesseminar mit Exkursion: Sinn und Zweck von Kunstförderung durch Firmen. 25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank Frankfurt«, Kuratorengespräch

(01/2006) Tagesseminar mit David Hornemann M.A. und Prof. Dr. Michael Hutter:
Kunst = Kapital!? Joseph Beuys und der Kapitalismus

(SS 2006) Workshop mit Ausstellung: Artist in Residence: Karl Manfred Rennertz, Baden-Baden, Bildhauerei

(SS 2006) Workshop mit Exkursion: Artist in Residence: Katharina Sieverding, Berlin, Fotokunst, Exkursion ins Atelier in Düsseldorf
(SS 2006) Seminar mit Gastredner:  Anselm Kiefer, Gast: Prof. Dr. Jörn Rüsen, KWI Essen, Präsident des Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut.

Sommeruniversität Villigst e.V., evangelische Studienstiftung, Meißen:

09/2007

Teaching assignment: Blockseminar mit Exkursionen: Cézanne - van Gogh - Monet. Vom Gegenständlichen zur Abstraktion. Kunst und Theorie mit Exkursion zum Kupferstichkabinett Dresden

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Fakultät Gestaltung:
2007-2009

Research assistant and PR officer

- Seminars for all courses of study:

product design

visual communication

fine arts

teaching profession for grammar schools

- Workshops on PR
- Editor of the yearbook: "Das Weimarer Modell", 2009
- Responsible for the presentation of the faculty in the university newspaper

"Der Bogen" and on the homepage
- Supervision of the Rundgang 2008 and 2009 including the supervision of 90 years Bauhaus "Alles Gute" of the Bauhaus-University together with Bill Schulz

(SS 2008) Workshop: PR from Plato to today

(SS 2008) Seminar: Sense and sensibility – positions in philosophy, art theory and the arts

(WS 2008) Seminar: War and Art

(WS 2008) Workshop: PR from Plato to today

(SS 2009) Seminar:  Image and symbol. Horizons of cultural values

(SS 2009) Workshop: PR from Plato to today

Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts

05-09 2012

Project assignment: Basic research: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schade in cooperation with the Basel University of Art and Design and Institute of Neuroscience, Parma, Italy

»Abstract.Amodal.Affective: Exploring Unconscious Aesthetic Processes in the Creation of Art/Design - A Contribution to the Question of Knowledge and Competence in the Visual Arts«

Hochschule für Künste Bremen:

WS 2011/2012

Teaching assignment / seminar with Mona Schieren M.A.
Seminar mit Exkursionen: Linie zwischen Umriss und Aktion – Positionen und Theorieansätze in Philosophie, Kunsttheorie und Kunst.

Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Basel, Institute of Art:

2010-2014

Research assistent for theory of art at the Forum Kunst BA of the Institute of Art with a focus on new media In winter term 2011 and summer term 2012 (Substitute for Prof. Dr. Melanie Franke) and lecturer for theory of art and design

- Excursions: ART Basel, 3 days in Frankfurt galleries and museums in Basel

- Lecturer for theory of art for the context courses of all study programme

(BA and MA): fine art, fashion, visual communication, interior design and scenography, teaching professions design and art

- Mentor and jury member for theory of art: BA Forum Institute of Art.
- BA and MA final examiner

(FS 2010) Blockseminar: 2 Theoriewochen - Bild und Symbol. Platon, Kant – Cassirer, Warburg, Böhme und Belting

(HS 2010/11)  2 Tage Mastersymposium für alle Schweizer Hochschulen für Gestaltung im Schaulager Basel, Seminarschwerpunkt: Inszenierte Fotografie

(HS 2010/11) Seminar: Wie verstehen wir Bilder? Positionen aus Philosophie und Kunsttheorie

(HS 2010) Vorlesung: Was sagen uns Bilder? Positionen aus Philosophie und Kunsttheorie

(HS 2011/12) Seminar mit Exkursionen: Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung in Philosophie und Kunsttheorie:
Exkursionen: Vitra Design Museum: Architektur; Kunstmuseum Basel: Sammlung; Shedhalle Zürich: Kurator- und Künstlergespräch zur Ausstellung: „Unter Strom. Kunst und Elektrizität“

(HS 2011/12) Seminar: Werke der Gestaltung und Kunst im Zeitalter der digitalen Medien - Walter Benjamin

(FS 2012) Seminar mit Gastrednerin: »Lust und Unlust«. Diskussion von Gestaltung und Kunst als ästhetische Erfahrung, Gast: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schade, Zürich

(FS 2012) Vorlesung: Zwischen Reiz und Rührung: Kunst und Kitsch im Widerstreit

(HS 2012/13) Seminar mit Exkursionen: Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung in Philosophie und Kunsttheorie, Exkursionen: Vitra Design Museum: Pop-Art Design Ausstellung; Kunstmuseum Basel: Sammlung + Arte Povera Ausstellung; Haus für Elektronische Medien: Regionale-Ausstellung „Hidden/Obvious“)

(HS 2012/13) Vorlesung: Stil !? Positionen in Philosophie, Kunsttheorie und Kunst

(HS 2013/14) Seminar mit Exkursionen:  Grundlagen der Wahrnehmung in Philosophie und Kunsttheorie: Exkursionen: Tinguely Museum Ausstellung: METAMATIC Reloaded, Gespräch mit dem Kurator; Kunstmuseum Basel: Sammlung + Ausstellung: Mondrian, Newmann, Flavin

Fresenius Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences

AMD Akademie Mode & Design Hamburg and Düsseldorf:   https://www.amdnet.de/en/

2021 - 2024

- Lecturer / online seminars: Basics on Perception and Design I and II

- Research Project: "Affective Perception and Design" AMD Hamburg and Institute of Technology Genova/Parma, Italy

- Educational Film (intranet): Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Value and Change of Corals, Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner

Hamburg:

(WS 2021-22) Hamburg: in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice I

(SS 2022) Hamburg: online seminar, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice II

(SS 2022) Hamburg: Educational film (Intranet): "Margaret und Christine Wertheim. Wert und Wandel der Korallen", Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, mit Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner, AMD Hamburg

(SS 2022) Hamburg: Research Project "Affective Perception and Design" together with FB Design Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner and Institute of Technology (IIT) Genua/Parma, Italy, CONTACT lab, Dr. Giuseppe di Cesare und Phd student Giada Lombardi:

(WS 2022-23) Hamburg: in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design I: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice

(SS 2024) Hamburg: online seminar in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice II

Düsseldorf:

(WS 2021-22) Düsseldorf: on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice I

(SS 2022) Düsseldorf: online seminar on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice II

(WS 2022-23) Düsseldorf: on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design I: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice

(SS 2023) Düsseldorf: online seminar on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice II

(WS 2023-24) Düsseldorf: online seminar on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice II

(SS 2024) Düsseldorf: online seminar on the topic: Basics on Perception and Design: Approaches in natural science and cultural studies: differences, methods, and practice II

UdK, Universität der Künste, Berlin

WS 2024

Lecture and workshop with excursion to the Gemäldegalerie at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser:

Vitality Semiotics: Methods from Art Historical Practice: Space in European Art History

MSD, Münster School of Design

WS 2025

Seminar in the newly founded master's program over 3 semesters:

Master Illustration: Design Theory

SS 2026

Bachelor´s degree progamme in Design: Workshop on Presentation and Text II

Guest Lectures/Seminars:

• (6/2015) Guest seminar: Prof. Dr. Roland Posner, Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation, Technische Universität Berlin: Seminarvortrag mit Diskussion: »Nicht-intentionale oder intentionale Logik? Zur Frage der Eigenlogik von Bildern (11.06.2015)
• (11/2015) Guest seminar: Prof. Dr. Roland Posner, Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation, Technische Universität Berlin: Die Rolle der Zeichen im Aufbau von Kultur: Atmosphäre, Stimmung, Aura, Milieu, Vortrag im Seminar: »Stimmung« als Modus des Erlebens von Bildern ( 26.11.2015)
• (1/2016) Lecture series ot the DGS, Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik, Universität Passau: Grenzen. Kontakt - Kontrast - Kommunikation, with a lecture on: »Grenzen zwischen Ästhetik und Semiotik?«, (07.01.2016, 6-8 pm)
  

Museum

activities in research

and teaching

Video-Lecture on Transformations Using the Example of Photo Series by

Katharina Sievering

Katharina Sieverding, Transformer Cyan Solarisation 5 A/B, 1973/74. Color photograph, acrylic, and steel frames, 2 parts, each 190 x 125 cm, © Klaus Mettig,

VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021

Article on postmodern worlds using as an example the pictures of Karin Kneffel

Karin Kneffel, Trauben, 240 x 199,8 cm, Museum Frieder Burda Foto: Karin Kneffel

In On the Postmodern Age,

ed. by Martina Sauer, 101—120

Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine,

New York, São Paulo.

Special issue  6,

September 2020

Article on "Karin Kneffel and the deconstruction of the familiar as liberation from determiniation".

https://artstyle.international/issue-6/

Educational Film

about Art and Sciences

"The Midden", Baden-Baden, collection of plastic waste, Explanations from the mathematicianMargaret Wertheim

Photo: Martina Sauer, 27.01.2022

Fresenius Hochschule

University of Applied Sciences

SS 2022 educational film (intranet)

Cultural history of formation II, exibition and participative project:

"Margaret und Christine Wertheim. Value and Change of Coral Reefs", Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, together with Prof. Dr. Petra Leutner, Akademie Mode & Design, Hamburg

Ryan Gander, Mouse, animatroin figure, 2019, part of the exibition  Transformers, Museum Frieder Burda, 2023

Video: Martina Sauer

Themed tour with Martina Sauer through Daniel Knorr's installation room in the exhibition ImPossible at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden. Photo: Marie-Christine Heck, March 22, 2024

Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden
Themed tours (Ger., Fr., Engl.)
- Heinz Mack, Licht - Schatten (2015)
- Andreas Gursky (2015/2016)
- Gerhard Richter, Birkenau (2016)
- Katharina Grosse (2016)
- Die Kerze (2016/2017)
- Sigmar Polke, Alchemie und Arabeske (2017)
- Rodney Graham, Lightening Box (2017)
- America! America! – How Real ist real? (2018)
- James Turrell, The Substance of Light (2018)
- Die Brücke (2018/2019)
- "Ensemble", Centre Georges Pompidou and Museum Frieder Burda (2019)

- Karin Kneffel (2019)

- The Burda Brothers (2020)

- Impressionism in Russia. Setting out for the avant-garde (2021)

- Katharina Sievering. In Between Art and Politics (2021)

- Value and Transformation of Corals: Christine and Margaret Wertheim (2022)

- Transformers. Meeting of ´AI-Beings´ and classical art from the museum´s collection (2023)

- Nicolas Party: When Tomorrow Comes: New Perspectives on Space and Time (2024)

- ImPossible. Art can give shape to the impossible. For what reason? (2024)

- Yoshitomo Nara. Retrospective. Angy Girls: Vulnerable and Furious (2025)

- Richard Pousette-Dart. Poetry of Light. Liberal, open, free America: Did such a thing once exist? (2025)

- Impressionism in Germany. Max Liebermann and his time: Promenading through an era full of hope (2025/26)

- Rivaling Reality. 60 Years of Photorealism: Reality is reality, isn´t it? (2026)

HAUS KIEFER Ottersdorf/Rastatt

Themed tours (Ger.)

2025, April 27 to 2026: Works from 1971-1983

2026, March 20: Watercolors and Books 1969-2017



Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Themed tours ( (Ger., Fr., Engl.)
- Metamorphosen – Cézanne (2017-2018)

Educational Portals

Stadt Bühl, Bildungsportal

Stadt Baden-Baden, Studium Generale
Themed tours through museums
Seminars in philosophy, culture, art, design, and architecture 

Image – Culture – Philosophy

Series on (Cultural) Anthropology
- Nicholas Cusanus "De Beryllo" 1458: On a founder of cultural studies in the 15th century (2017)
- Free will or unfree will? On a dispute between Erasmus of Rotterdam and Martin Luther from 1524/25 until today (2017)
- Enthusiasm. On a feeling inspired by the muses (2017)
-  Primitivism? On the re-evaluation of indigenous in comparison to supposedly civilized forms of society (2018)

- Myths, Fake News and   Alternative Truths? (2021). Answers from Philosophy

Series on Modern Era

- What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant and the educational reform by Wilhelm von Humboldt (2018)

- What is Enlightenment - for women? (2019)

Series on Postmodern Age

- 300 years Kant: Are we enlightened? Questions for Immanuel Kant today (2024)

- What is Postmodernism? Towards a new self-image of mankind since the 80s ( 2019)

- "The dispute over difference. Feminism and postmodernism in the present time"

Series on the Understanding of Time

- Future: Time. What is it for us? Answers by Ernst Cassirer (2020)
- Past: Vintage - Retro - "Shabby-Chic". Why? Answers from Frame Theory (2021)
- Present: Enthusiasm - Answers by Plato (2021)
- Breaks: What's the point? When the familiar and the traditional are called into question by art and design - Answers by Walter Benjamin (SS 2021)

- Metaverse (WS 2023-24)

Series on Contemporary Issues with a Focus on Identities

- Humanism and Pragmatism: Anglo-American vs. European Thought (2019)

- Alsace or „ali-sāzzo“ . Residents of the other bank of the Rhine. Postmodern philosophy in a new light (2021)

- Jewish Scholars Excluded in Germany. Consequences from the history of science: "The Hamburg Circle" 1919-1933  (2021)

- Russia: Post-Communism and Media (2023)

- Colonialism and Women (2023)

Series on Architecture, Art and Design and their philosophical background:
- On the "revolutionary potential" of the central building idea from the beginning of the Renaissance to modern times (2017)
- Architecture and Philosophy in Absolutism and Enlightenment (2018)
- The simple life. Indigenous forms of housing and construction in North and South America and its after-effects in art (2018)
- "Form Follows Function" – In architecture and design in the USA and Europe (SS 2019)

- 100 Years of Bauhaus (1919-2019). On the origin and development of a significant movement in Europe and the USA (2019)

- "Anything Goes". Postmodern architecture and its backgrounds in the real world  (WS 2019)

- Vintage - Retro - Shabby Chick. Why? (2021)
- Women at the Bauhaus (1919-1933) (2021)
- Why? When the familiar and traditional is challenged by art and design (2021)
- "Zaha Hadid flies away from the ordinary and far into the future". Postmodern architecture as an expression of the spirit of life today (2021)

- Political myths: Anselm Kiefer (2022)

- Russia and Communism form the first hour in images (2022)

- Turner and Sensualism (2023)

Themed tours:
- Paul Cézanne, Metamorphoses, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2017)
- America, America, How real is real? Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- James Turrell, The Substance of Light, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- Die Brücke and Expressionism, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2018)
- War and media as part of the past, present and future: to the exhibition „Ensemble“ – Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden und Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris in Baden-Baden (2019)

- Postmodern Worlds – Deconstruction of the Familiar: "Karin Kneffel" in the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2019)

- Why do we Collect? The Burda Brothers. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden ( 2020)

- Impressionism in Russia. Dawn of the Avant-Garde, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2021)

- Katharina Sieverding. In Between Art and Politics, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2021)

- Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Value and Transformation of Corals, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2022)

- Transformers. ´AI-Beings´ and classical art from the museum´s collection, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (2023)

- Nicolas Party: When Tomorrow Comes: New Perspectives on Space and Time (2004)

- Yoshitomo Nara.Angry Girls: Vulnerable and Angry, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden(2025)
- Richard Pousette-Dart. Retrospective. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-BadenLiberal, open, free America: Did it ever exist? (2025)

- Anselm Kiefer. Works 1971-1983. HAUS KIEFER, Ottersdorf/Rastatt (2025)

- Impressionism in Germany. Max Lieberman and his time. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden  (2025/26)

- Rivaling Reality. 60 Years of Photorealism, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden   (2026); Reality is reality, isn´t it?

- Anselm Kiefer. Watercolors and Books 1969-2017. HAUS KIEFER, Ottersdorf/Rastatt (2026): Towards Traces of Expression and Meaning.

Teacher Training High School

Teacher Training
Protestant and catholic teacher of religion: Handelslehranstalt Bruchsal,

21.09.2018:  What is Enlightenment? Immanuel Kant and the consequences
for the educational reform by Wilhelm von Humboldt

01.10.2019: A-level: god proofs

DebatingClub: Philosophy +

VHS Baden-Baden:

SS 2025 Plato - The Allegory of the Cave

WS 2025 (Existentialism) "L´invitée": Simone de Beauvoir und Martin Heidegger

SS 2026 Ethics and morality I—a momentous difference (discussion with relevant passages from Plato, Augustine, Kant, Arendt, Habermas, and others)

WS 2026 Ethics and morality II—how to manage the dilemma?

private:

30.08.2025: At Münster Schwarzach, Rheinmünster, 30.08.2025: Time, what does it mean to us? Medieval vs. contemporary understanding: Augustine of Hippo in relation to Ernst Cassirer and Jacques Derrida.

2023: At the hotel Erbprinz Ettlingen (near by Karlsruhe): Are we enlightened? Questions for Immanuel Kant today