Lecture by Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schnurr.
Ansgar Schnurr is a leading figure in art education for the approach of transculturality. With the help of this concept he tries to make the consequences fruitful for art education in a society shaped by migration, globalization and digitalization. An essential maxim is the focus on the common in the different. The ambivalence that appears here is central for a transcultural art education and should be reflected and endured. Furthermore, this framework raises the question of which cultural heritage can be referred to in art education against the background of increasingly diverse cultural identities? For the self-evidence of what belongs to the cultural canon has long since ceased to exist and holds many potentials, but also poses challenges for art education.
Ansgar Schnurr has been Professor of Art Education at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen since 2014. Previously, he held a professorship for art didactics at the Alanushochschule Alfter after working as an academic councilor at the TU Dortmund University and teaching art at a comprehensive school, as well as teaching sculpture at the University of Paderborn. He received his doctorate from the TU Dortmund in 2007. After studying art and Catholic theology at the University of Paderborn and later completing his traineeship, he studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster, graduating as a master student of Timm Ulrichs. His research and teaching focuses on transculturality and diversity, as well as art in public space.