In the Painting study programme participating artists develop their work and conduct their research from a painterly perspective: to them painting as a discipline is an important reference point. Facing a world that is shaped by a complex interplay of cultural, economic, political and technological developments, art and artists continue to take position, combining a personal perspective and a professional attitude. The programme provides a context for artistic research into the meaning, position and challenging potentialities of painting in the broadest sense in contemporary art and society. Artists taking part in this programme seek to achieve a deeper understanding of and higher level of specialisation in their artistic practice through playful experiment and research. The investigations are not limited to the materiality, act, idea or field of painting alone: they can be described as practical and theoretical investigations into the workings and potentialities of the image, objects, space, perception and the imagination in a broader sense.