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MICHAŁ BUDNY
RANDZONE
27 September 2026 – 14 February 2027
Opening: Sunday, 27 September 2026, 11 a.m.
How can relationships, situations, and emotions be translated into material presence?
Michał Budny (born in Leszno, Poland, in 1976) gives fleeting moments a radical physical tangibility in his abstract, often large-scale objects. PEAC Museum is now presenting its first comprehensive solo exhibition of the artist’s work. The survey brings together some 40 works from the past twenty years, including objects, large-scale sculptures, and site-specific installations. The exhibition represents a continuation of the museum’s program of contemporary art, which links present approaches with the Paul Ege Art Collection’s focus on Minimal Art, Radical Painting, and Conceptual Art since the 1970s.
Budny works with a limited palette of colors and materials—black, white, and shades of gray, alongside metal, wood, textile, cardboard, and rubber. The strictly geometric, austere formal language of his works, with their absence of representational content, is reminiscent of Constructivism or Minimal Art. However, while the latter asserts an experience exclusively in the here and now and assumes a viewer who is as universal and objective as possible, the encounter with Budny’s works is deeply personal and subjective, evoking both the past and the future. The works can be seen as a formal continuation of the historical holdings within the Paul Ege Art Collection, yet they simultaneously introduce a poetic, narrative dimension that runs counter to the minimalist dogma “What you see is what you see.”
In the exhibition, this becomes physically palpable. Budny develops large-format wall reliefs in black rubber, for instance, whose convex and concave curves define an inside and an outside. The intense smell of the material and its deep black fill the room. By reducing the work to its bare fundamentals and making precise use of material, form, and dimension, Budny distills complex human experiences down to their essence. The artist himself describes the objects created in this way as “models for mental use.”
The exhibition RANDZONE(Edge Zone) explores exactly these border zones between the visible and the invisible, connection and separation, inside and outside.
Michał Budny was born in 1976 in Leszno, Poland. He lives and works between Warsaw and Prague.
Budny’s work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; South London Gallery; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania; Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken; and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. The artist is already represented in the Paul Ege Art Collection by several works.
The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive program of events, including talks, a film screening, and a concert. For more information go here.
The exhibition is curated by Lea Altner, Director of PEAC Museum, and Dorotea Lorenz, Curatorial Assistant.
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About PEAC Museum
PEAC Museum is an exhibition venue for modern and contemporary art hosting a regularly changing program of exhibitions. The museum also houses the Paul Ege Art Collection (PEAC), 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 spaces, which opened in 2004 under the name “Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle,” span approximately 1,000 square meters. Since fall 2019, the former art space has been operating under the name PEAC Museum.
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