Opening within Berlin Art Week, in the fall of 2013, four leading Berlin institutions for contemporary art - Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nationalgalerie-Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - have chosen painting as the focal point of this collaboration.

The individual and group presentations of the four exhibition formats of Painting Forever! will demonstrate various approaches to the medium.

The exhibitions are based on various artistic and curatorial positions and, despite their diversity, all address the question of what painting can and wants to be today.

Painting Forever! combines both young, contemporary positions with already-established artists and artists’ groups and also explores historical references.

To accompany the exhibition project, a four-volume publication will be released for the joint opening in September 2013.