Taster Days: Get to know the Art-Education-Therapy degree program!

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Foundation Block II Drawing
Here, first-year students develop their first independent projects based on the discipline of drawing.
With: Sophie Olligschläger & Christina (Sissy) Hunold
> Campus I – Johannishof, Courtyard Studio
Max. 3 people

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Portfolio advice
To begin an art degree, you need an artistic portfolio. But what belongs in a portfolio? You will get all the information here! You are welcome to bring your portfolio or samples of your work. Prospective students without their own portfolio are also welcome. If only a digital portfolio is available, it can be sent in advance to beatrice.dietz@alanus.edu.
With: Prof. Johannes Brunner, Harald Hoppe
> Campus I – Johannishof, Seminar Room 2 (Werkhaus)

8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Studio Artistic Practice
Focus: Sculptural work
With: Thom Lüthi
> Campus II – Villestraße, Studio Building III
Max. 3 people

9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Composition II
Here, students learn the advanced foundations of composition in theory and practice.
With: Prof. Béatrice Cron
> Campus I – Johannishof, Bella Vista
Max. 5 people

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Foundation Block II Drawing
Here, first-year students develop their first independent projects based on the discipline of drawing.
With: Sophie Olligschläger & Christina (Sissy) Hunold
> Campus I – Johannishof, Courtyard Studio
Max. 3 people

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Colloquium Harald Hoppe Project
Focus: Mixed media. Insight into the class’s weekly colloquium with input on current topics and discussion of students’ work.
With: Harald Hoppe
> Campus I – Johannishof, Passage Studio
Max. 5 people

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Colloquium Prof. Beatrice Cron Class
Focus: Painting. Insight into the class’s weekly colloquium with input on current topics and discussion of students’ work.
With: Prof. Béatrice Cron
> Campus I – Johannishof, Bella Vista
Max. 5 people

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Composition I
Students pass on their knowledge in the field of the foundations of composition to their fellow students.
With: Aurelia Grabosch
> Campus I – Johannishof, Bella Vista
Max. 5 people

8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Studio Artistic Practice
Focus: Sculptural work
With: Thom Lüthi
> Campus II – Villestraße, Studio Building III
Max. 3 people

9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Color Dynamics in Watercolor I
The starting point is Goethe’s theory of colors. From the perception of the interactions and qualities of colors, painterly processes emerge. In this way, the experienced dynamics of color become an impulse for finding one’s own visual approaches in watercolor.
Note: If possible, participants should bring brushes, paper, and watercolor paints.
With: Prof. Béatrice Cron
> Campus I – Johannishof, Bella Vista
Max. 3 people

10:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Colloquium Prof. Edwin Zwakman Class
Focus: Media & Photography. Insight into the class’s weekly colloquium with input on current topics and discussion of students’ work.
With: Prof. Edwin Zwakman
> Campus I – Johannishof, Class below the Media Room
Max. 5 people

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Colloquium Prof. Johannes Brunner Class
Focus: Sculpture. Insight into the class’s weekly colloquium with input on current topics and discussion of students’ work.
With: Prof. Johannes Brunner
> Campus I – Johannishof, Studio 2nd Floor, Sculpture Courtyard
Max. 5 people

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Foundation Block II Drawing
Here, first-year students develop their first independent projects based on the discipline of drawing.
With: Sophie Olligschläger & Christina (Sissy) Hunold
> Campus I – Johannishof, Courtyard Studio
Max. 3 people

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Autochoreography
If you move, you dance! In this course, we look for everyday gestures that become stories and stories that we tell through gestures. Learn to write choreographies and paint in space with precision, compassion, an anatomical understanding of the body and movement dynamics, and tools from dance theater.
With: Vanessa Basilio de Luca
> Campus I – Johannishof, Mint Room (Eurythmy)
Max. 4 people

9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Art Education I
In this seminar, students get to know the foundations of art education.
With: Prof. Ina Scheffler
> Campus II – Villestraße, Seminar Room 14
Max. 5 people

Office hours Studium Generale Office:
Tuesday – Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
and by appointment at phase@alanus.edu
Room V/2nd floor/10, Campus II – Villestraße

>> Register here for the Studium Generale events

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Entanglements. Philosophical Reading Course on New Materialism
“New Materialism” understands reality as a dynamic web of relationships in which not only human beings act, and not only do so first. Matter has a life of its own – and is therefore more than ‘mere’ matter, raw material, or object. Boundaries generally become permeable, allowing nature, technology, and art to enter into exciting, fruitful, and challenging entanglements. In the seminar session on 26 May, we will presumably discuss a text by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti.
With: Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmaus
> Campus II – Villestraße, Seminar Room 5
Max. 5 people

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Aesthetic Transformation vs. Cultural Consumerism – Adorno’s Aesthetics of Self-Transcendence
Against commodity consumption and subject-centered thinking, under whose grip the world shrinks into something available at one’s disposal, Adorno cautiously sets the emancipatory potential of art. Through art, Adorno says, we can learn what a free relationship to our fellow human beings and the world would look like.
With: Gerhard Henseler
> Campus II – Villestraße, Seminar Room 6

Friday, 29 May 2026

9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Is It All Just Copied? On Creative Approaches to Copy, Quotation, Reproduction
Today’s cult of originality in art and the celebration of innovation sometimes make us forget that references to other works of art are an essential part of art history. Such references have different characteristics and diverse functions.
With: Dr. Isabel Rith-Magni
> Campus II – Villestraße, Seminar Room 8
Max. 4 people

11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
It’s Just Silly ‘Participatory Art’! A Critical Approach to Participatory Art Concepts
In the context of current democracy discourses, socio-aesthetic art practices are gaining momentum, but are also accused of having a borderline syndrome. This area of tension provides ample reason to discuss the theoretical implications of such concepts of hybrid art.
With: Dr. Isabel Rith-Magni
> Campus II – Villestraße, Seminar Room 12
Max. 5 people

2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. (afternoon block)
Poetics of the Wound (Contemporary Literature)
Creative exercise with shared reading and discussion.
With: Petra von der Lohe
> Campus I – Johannishof, Seminar Room 4
Max. 3 people

Office hours Degree Program Office Art-Education-Therapy:
Tuesday – Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
and by appointment at bachelor.kpt@alanus.edu
> Art-Education-Therapy Office (Entrance Inner Courtyard/Johannishof, 1st floor), Campus I – Johannishof

Info Campus I – Johannishof

Tuesday (26/05) – Friday (29/05): 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
> Administration (Entrance Inner Courtyard/Johannishof), Marketing Office, Room 1221, Campus I – Johannishof

Info Campus II – Villestraße

Tuesday – Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
> Foyer, Campus II – Villestraße

Student Services

All questions about applying and admission to the university are welcome here!

Office hours:
Tuesday – Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
> Room V/EG/23-2, Campus II – Villestraße

If you would like to arrange an appointment outside office hours, please contact Student Services directly at +49 (0) 2222 9321-1011 or by email at studieren@alanus.edu.

Funding advice

Funding advice helps you with all questions regarding the possibilities of BAföG, student loans, scholarships, education funds, loans, as well as university-internal funding opportunities.
Office hours:
Tuesday – Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
> Room V/EG/23-2, Campus II – Villestraße

If you would like to arrange an appointment outside office hours, please contact Funding Advice directly at +49 (0) 2222 9321-1011 or by email at finanzierungsberatung@alanus.edu.

Examinations Office

The Examinations Office helps you with questions about the recognition of academic achievements and semesters abroad.

Office hours:
Tuesday – Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
> Room V/EG /12, Campus II – Villestraße

If you would like to arrange an appointment outside office hours, please contact the Examinations Office directly by email at pruefungsamt@alanus.edu.

International Office

This is the right place for all questions about studying abroad/internships abroad!

Office hours Campus I – Johannishof:
Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
> Acting Building, Ground Floor Office

Office hours Campus II – Villestraße:
Wednesday, Thursday: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
> Room V/EG/7, Campus II – Villestraße

If you would like to arrange an appointment outside office hours, please contact the International Office directly at +49 (0) 2222 9321-1980 or by email at international.office@alanus.edu.