School of Painting and Pictorial Practices

Teaching at the School of Painting and Image-based Practices aims to strengthen your professional knowledge, methodological skills and professional competence in the visual arts with a special focus on painting and other image-based practices.

Through both practical work in the studio and theoretical courses, you will develop your own artistic practice, methods and professionalism so that you can work as a professional visual artist, maintain an independent practice and solve both artistic and communicative tasks.

The master's program is a practice-based education based on artistic development work, research and critical reflection.

The main purpose of the program is to enable you to work professionally in the field of visual arts, and it also qualifies you for possible PhD studies in visual arts.

The teaching

Before the start of the semester, the school's professor makes a semester plan for the coming semester's teaching, which may include individual guidance, joint critiques, seminars, workshops, field trips, guest lectures, department assemblies and study trips.

The teaching is based on your own artistic practice as a student. Through dialog and sparring with professors, lecturers, guest lecturers and fellow students, you will develop both your artistic language and your ability to work independently, methodically and critically.

Central to the program is your own work in the studio and in the Academy's workshops and laboratories.