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Professorship Experimental Painting and Drawing

One of the outstanding characteristics of art has always been its ability to conceive alternative models to the existing order and to develop critical drafts beyond the mainstream.
The coursework in the professorship of Experimental Painting and Drawing centres on an engagement with reality. Students are encouraged to learn to assert a stance towards our society, our actions and omissions, and our very existence and behaviour – (not only) through the medium of art. The aim is to develop a form of artistic expression that is as independent as possible.
Through intensive collaboration and hands-on work, the course explores the unique logic and language of painting and drawing, whilst simultaneously reflecting upon and highlighting the conditions of art, the nature of its creation, its utilisation, value creation, and so on. Furthermore, students acquire knowledge in the areas of conceptual and working strategies. Issues relating to the presentation and reception of images are discussed.
The core of the studies is artistic practice, which encompasses both technical processes of painting and drawing and their boundary and transitional areas into other media. Practical 
work plays a decisive role in this. To realise an idea convincingly, I need to make effective use of the available means. Navigating the interplay between hand and mind is a fundamental prerequisite for artistic work.

During the semester, students work on independent projects of their own choosing, which are presented and discussed in plenary sessions. The course is complemented by regular visits to exhibitions, excursions and presentations by guest artists.

Porträt von Prof. Jana Gunstheimer. Sie hält ein langes schwarzes Kabel in den Händen und steht zwischen minimalistischen schwarzen Objekten und Kabeln einer Installation in einem hellen Studio.

Prof. Jana Gunstheimer

Experimental Painting and Drawing

Paula Hoffmann

Experimental Painting and Drawing

Joy-Fabienne Enzmann

Experimental Painting and Drawing

Administration Office Fine Art and Public Art and New Artistic Strategies Less More

Silke Partschefeld

Administration Office Fine Art and Public Art and New Artistic Strategies