Students are provided with workspaces and receive intensive supervision from faculty through individual and group consultations. The academic curriculum sharpens their critical reflection regarding their own research questions, methods, and processes, while also supporting further research projects. Through exhibition projects and events both within and beyond the university context, students develop a professional approach to presentation formats and distribution methods.

Upon completion of the program, students present their artistic and/or scholarly work to a broader public, accompanied by documentation in a publication. They deepen and refine their artistic and/or scholarly competencies, creating work whose experimental character generates aesthetic arguments, statements, and intensities. Students learn to purposefully employ technical methods to express, refine, and further develop their artistic ideas.

They acquire extensive art-historical knowledge and theoretical concepts that enable reflection on the status of their own work and serve to inspire and intensify their artistic productivity. Students with a scholarly focus are capable of formulating theoretical problems in a nuanced manner, developing them argumentatively, and deriving theses or conclusions.

The standard period of study is four semesters, culminating in the degree Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.).