The restoration of a contemporary art painting may include:

- Photographic documentation (before, during, and after the restoration; under grazing, direct, and UV light)

- Scientific investigations to identify binders and determine whether materials did not originally belong to the work

- Consolidation of debonding between the paint layer, primer, and support

- Treatments against biological deterioration (wood-eating insects and mold)

- Repair of cracks, tears, or deformations of the support

- Conservation, restoration, or replacement of stretchers

- Lining or strip-lining with suitable methods

- Cleaning of the painted surface after testing the solubility of non-original layers, to remove surface dirt and yellowed varnishes or older retouches

- Filling of gaps with special materials designed for the paint layer and texture

- Retouching with colored varnish or another suitable binder

- Final varnishing

- Study of a conservation solution (climaframe, climabox)