Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben Kunst und ihre Didaktik
Ästhetische Erziehung Raum 2.211 Brieffach 23 Adresse Gronewaldstr. 2 50931 Köln Sprechstunde
Dr. Nina Spöttling-Metz
Main Areas of Focus:
Aesthetic Education and Art Education in a Post-Digital Context
Platform-based visual cultures as forms of collective creative and performative practice
Art Education and Participation in the Discourse of Relational Aesthetics
Youth cultural style formation and aesthetic self-presentation in the context of popular visual cultures
CV
Since 10/2026
Lecturer for Special Assignments at the University of Cologne, Department of Art and Music, Art & Art Theory
Since 04/2023
Teaching assignments at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts, the Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW, the University of Osnabrück, and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
2024–2025
Design and implementation of art education workshop formats for the project “Grafeneck – Münster // 1940 – Today,” Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW, funded by the EVZ Foundation
2021–2024
Teacher of art, aesthetic education, and pedagogy at the vocational college (vocational high school and technical college for social pedagogy)
2018–2020
Teacher training program and Second State Examination for teaching at high schools and comprehensive schools
2015–2018
Master of Education (Dortmund University of Technology)
2012–2017
Adjunct instructor and independent research associate at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and adjunct instructor at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts
2012
Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in Art Education, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main [summa cum laude]
2006–2010
Ph.D. fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation; dissertation titled “Rebels and Martyrs: The Stylization of Youth as a Post-Ritual Practice of Meaning, Using the Jesus Freak Movement as an Example”
2006–2009
Research assistant and instructor at the Institute for Art Education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Department of New Media
2004
Magistra Artium in Art Education, Pedagogy, and Art History, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Publications (Selection)
Monographs
Spöttling-Metz, N. (2011): Rebels and Martyrs. The Stylization of Youth as a Post-Ritual Practice of Meaning: The Case of the Jesus Freak Movement. Dissertation, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. (Dissertation)
Richard, B., Grünwald, J., Recht, M., & Metz, N. (2010): Flickering Youth—Rushing Images. Network Cultures in Web 2.0. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus.
Contributions to anthologies and handbooks
Spöttling-Metz, N. (2026): Art Education in the Digital Archipelago. A Study of Collaborative Visual Cultures on the Web. In: Tewes, J. & Krebber, G. (Eds.): Stable Trembling. Transformative Practices in Art Education (Art Media Education 24). Munich: kopaed, pp. 215–224.
Spöttling-Metz, N. (2017): Out of Joint: On the Ghostly Quality of Pop-Cultural Visual Cultures in a Digitized Present. In: Richard, B., Müller, J., & Blechinger, E. (Eds.): Konsumfashionista. Media Aesthetics of Fashion. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 133–139.
Metz, N. & Richard, B. (2013): R.I.P. The Dead Star as a Post-Ritual Martyr and Dark Icon of the Internet. In: Robertson-von Trotha, C. Y. (ed.): Celebrity Culture. Stars in the Media Society (Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies). Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 103–117.
Metz, N. & Richard, B. (2011): Youth Cultures. In: Otto, H.-U. & Thiersch, H. (Eds.): Handbook of Social Work. Fundamentals of Social Work and Social Pedagogy. 4th ed. Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, pp. 684–691. DOI: 10.2378/ot4a.art071
Metz, N. (2010): Shattered Symbols. Pop, Culture, and the Religious in the Visual Worlds of Youth Culture. In: Richard, B. & Krüger, H.-H. (Eds.): inter-cool 3.0. Youth, Image, Media. A Compendium on Current Youth Culture Research. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 263–270.
Metz, N. (2010): Myths of the Near Future. New Rave as a Style Phenomenon 2.0. In: Richard, B. & Krüger, H.-H. (Eds.): inter-cool 3.0. Youth, Image, Media. A Compendium on Current Youth Culture Research. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, pp. 133–140.
Metz, N. (2008): So Fucked Up—Damage as a Motif in Pop-Cultural Representation. In: Richard, B. & Ruhl, A. (Eds.): Consumer Guerrilla. Resistance to Mass Culture? Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus, pp. 117–128.
Richard, B., Kuni, V., Metz, N., & Zaremba, J. (2006): Coolhunters [DVD]. Frankfurt am Main: Federal Agency for Civic Education.
Lectures (Selection)
Spöttling-Metz, N. (May 2026): Focus on Visual Cultures. Lecture in the series “Kunst.Impulse. Competent Visual Practice in the Digital Age,” Institute for Quality Development in Schools Schleswig-Holstein (IQSH), online.
Spöttling-Metz, N. (11/2025): Approaches to Art Education in the Context of Memorial Site Work as Part of the Grafeneck–Münster Project / 1940–Present. Presentation, conference “Grafeneck – Münster // 1940 – Today. Developing a Cultural-Educational Practice of Remembrance for Engaging with Nazi Euthanasia Crimes,” Catholic University of Applied Sciences NRW, Münster.
Spöttling-Metz, N. (09/2024): No Image Is an Island. Exploring Participatory Design Processes Online and (Re)acting Through Art Education. Workshop, Annual Conference of the Scientific Society for Art, Media, and Education “Stable Trembling: Transformative Practices in Art Education,” Münster Academy of Fine Arts.
Spöttling-Metz, N. (03/2020): Testing post-digital strategies of forgetting and dissolution with Snapchat. As part of the continuing education program: “Postdigital Media Culture in Schools: Contemporary Art Meets the Curriculum,” Institute for Art and Art Theory, University of Cologne.
Spöttling-Metz, N. (06/2018): #dolphins – Social Tagging and Its Potential for Post-Digital Art Education. Workshop, “Because Internet” conference, Institute for Art and Art Theory, University of Cologne.
Spöttling-Metz, N. (10/2017): #freeyourpits. Instagram as a Forum for Discourse on the Representation of Female Bodies in the Tense Interplay Between Empowerment and Commodification. Presentation, research colloquium “Aesthetic Practice as Media Critique: Reflections on Critical Practice in the Context of Digital Media Cultures,” Grimme Research College at the University of Cologne.