Press Release
EXHIBITIONS 2026
CURRENT
SCHIRIN KRETSCHMANN. TEN BY ONE
until 8 February 2026
UPCOMING
TEXTIL. SCHULKUNST AUSSTELLUNG
4 – 25 March 2026
SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR
Selected Works from the Paul Ege Art Collection
26 April – 23 August 2026
MICHAŁ BUDNY
Solo show
27 September 2026 – 15 February 2027
TEXTIL
SCHULKUNST AUSSTELLUNG
4 – 25 March 2026
Opening: Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 3 p.m.
From 4 March 2026, the PEAC Museum will present TEXTIL, an exhibition featuring more than 50 works by students in dialogue with works from the Paul Ege Art Collection. In the exhibition, the students explore a wide range of aspects textile materials, engaging experimentally with the theme through drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and performative ideas. TEXTIL is presented as part of the SCHULKUNST programme of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
This extensive exhibition opens up a broad thematic field and highlights the diversity of artistic approaches to working with textile materials. The students investigate the haptic qualities of thread, braid, and fabric; rediscover traditional techniques and craft-based processes such as embroidery, weaving, knotting, and sewing; and further develop them in contemporary ways. Interdisciplinary references to fashion and design, as well as graphic and film-based explorations of textile structures, broaden perspectives on the medium. In this way, textiles become both a source of inspiration and a field for experimentation.
Since 1985, the SCHULKUNST programme of the state of Baden-Württemberg has been a key initiative supporting arts and cultural education in schools. Since 2019, the PEAC Museum has hosted the exhibition for the third time as a cooperation partner of the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Centre for SCHULKUNST at the Centre for School Quality and Teacher Education Baden-Württemberg (ZSL). Coordinated by the Freiburg regional office, the exhibition presents works by numerous students from schools in Freiburg as well as the districts of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Emmendingen. In 2026, approximately 1.000 students from around 40 schools are participating.
Accompanying the exhibition is a diverse educational programme. In the open workshop, visitors are invited to work independently with a variety of textile materials.
The exhibition is curated by Isabella Wild, Curator for Education & Digital Communication.
SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR
Selected Works from the Paul Ege Art Collection
26 April - 23 August 2026
Opening: Sunday, 26 April, 11 a.m.
The dynamic of closeness and distance generate tension— in everyday life, in relationships, and in art. This year’s collection presentation of the Paul Ege Art Collection is dedicated to this theme, featuring around 30 works. Spanning a wide range of media—from sculpture, photography, and painting to sound, installation, and video—the exhibition So Close, Yet So Far traces this state of tension across diverse artistic practices.
The selected works are seductive, only to withdraw at the last moment: the harmonious colour gradient of a painting suddenly dissolves into infinity, or the video projection of a drawing that appears to never end. The works resist complete comprehension and remain, in their own ways, distant. The exhibition presents both, works from the collection and new acquisitions shown for the first time, including works by Myriam Holme and Stephan Baumkötter.
So Close, Yet So Far is part of a series of exhibitions engaging with the Paul Ege Art Collection. Its aim is to continually re-examine the collection and to establish a sustainable dialogue between art-historical pioneers and contemporary positions in (abstract) art. The collection’s specific focus creates an experiential space at the PEAC Museum in which the interplay between artwork, space, and viewer sharpens the perception of both the self and the world.
Artists include:Stephan Baumkötter, Astha Butail, Sebastian Dannenberg, Elger Esser, Johannes Geccelli, Lori Hersberger, Myriam Holme, Piotr Iwicki, On Kawara, Thomas Kitzinger, Takehito Koganezawa, Brigitte Kowanz, Thomas Müller, Moritz Neuhoff, Natalia Stachon, Dieter Villinger.
The exhibition is curated by Lea Altner, Director of the PEAC Museum.
MICHAŁ BUDNY
Solo show
27 September 2026 – 15 February 2027
Opening: Sunday, 27 September, 11 a.m.
For the first time the PEAC Museum presents a solo exhibition by the Polish artist Michał Budny (b. 1976 in Leszno, Poland). Budny’s creative process starts with a careful observation of emotions, places, and relationships. The sculptures that emerge from this process employ a visual language reminiscent of Minimal Art and Constructivism. Despite their reduced abstraction and materiality, his works subtly activate memories and emotions. For the PEAC Museum, the artist develops a comprehensive exhibition featuring works from the past twenty years.
Michał Budny was born in 1976 in Leszno, Poland, and lives and works between Warsaw and Prague. In 2007 he participated in the 10th Small Sculpture Triennale in Fellbach, and in 2008 in Manifesta 7 in Trentino. Solo exhibitions followed in 2010 at the South London Gallery, in 2011 at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, in 2012 at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2015 at the Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, and in 2020/21 at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. The artist is already represented with several works in the Paul Ege Art Collection.
The exhibition is curated by Lea Altner, Director of the PEAC Museum.
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About PEAC Museum
PEAC Museum is an exhibition venue for modern and contemporary art hosting a varied program of exhibitions. The museum also houses the Paul Ege Art Collection (PEAC) of the same name, focusing on Minimal Art, Radical Painting, and conceptual practices from the 1970s onward. The museum is situated in Freiburg on the premises of the Alexander Bürkle company, run by the fourth generation of the Ege family. The exhibition space, which opened in 2004 under the name “Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle,” spans approximately 1,000 square meters. Since fall 2019, the former art space has been operating under the name PEAC Museum. Lea Altner has been co-directing the PEAC Museum since 2023 and will assume sole responsibility in 2026. From 2026 onwards, Isabella Wild will take on the newly created position of Curator for Digital Communication & Education. With this position, the museum is strengthening its educational and outreach formats and making its content accessible to a broader audience.
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