PEAC

September 21, 2025 – February 8, 2026
Opening: Sunday, September 21, 2025, 11:00 a.m. with performance

With TEN BY ONE, PEAC Museum is presenting its first solo exhibition of Schirin Kretschmann (*1980 in Karlsruhe, lives in Berlin and Munich). The exhibition is one of the most extensive of the artist's career to date and features works created exclusively for this occasion.

Kretschmann’s work explores the specific characteristics of given situations and spaces. What defines a space? Which visible and invisible structures shape it? What actions are inscribed into it? For TEN BY ONE, the artist developed a new body of work based on the museum’s architecture, usage, and materiality. She reinterprets existing materials, movement patterns, and acoustic traces: through minimal interventions, performances, sound and video works, she shifts familiar perspectives and questions the conditions under which art is exhibited and perceived. The works continuously reconfigure themselves, remain open to spontaneous interactions, and generate a charged atmosphere that invites a multilayered experience.

Artistic Practice
Schirin Kretschmann engages with space as a medium of social structures and specific arrangements of the visible. Her artistic work is characterized by the recurring use of unusual materials such as leather grease, ice cream, loose pigments, plaster, packaging elements, and vehicles such as transport or rolling carts. Kretschmann sees these as carriers and storages of information that—depending on how they are processed and combined—can shape and transform our relationship to space, time, and their associated imaginations.

About the Artist
Schirin Kretschmann studied Fine Arts, Art Education, and German Studies in Karlsruhe, Freiburg, and Mexico City, and completed her PhD in Basel and Weimar. Her work has been shown internationally in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions. In addition, she regularly realizes projects in public space and in the context of public art commissions. She has been involved in artistic and curatorial research projects for many years. Currently, she is developing an outdoor work for the "Werkstatt Morsbroich" project at the Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen. Since 2020, she has been Professor of Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Kretschmann has exhibited in solo and group shows at venues including MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile (2023), Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen (2022), Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (2021), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2018), Kunstverein Hannover (2017), Museum Vasarely, Budapest (2017), CAPC Coimbra, Portugal (2017), Magazin4 Bregenzer Kunstverein (2016), CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador (2016), Kunstverein Salzburg (2015), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2014), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (2013), and Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (2012).

An Artist Talk with Schirin Kretschmann will take place on October 16, 2025, at 7 p.m.

All further events related to the exhibition can be found here.

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