Press Release Preview of 2025
COLOR IN FOCUS. WORKS FROM THE PAUL EGE ART COLLECTION
April 6 – August 17, 2025
Opening: Sunday, April 6, 2025, 11 a.m.
From spring 2025, PEAC Museum will be presenting the exhibition Color in Focus. Works from the Paul Ege Art Collection. The show highlights the fascinating role color has played in art from the 1970s to the present day. Color in Focus comprises around fifty works from the Paul Ege Art Collection, supplemented by new commissions from artists in the collection.
The point of departure for the selection are the works of painter and graphic artist Frank Badur (b. 1944 in Oranienburg, lives and works in Berlin and Finland). In keeping with our practice of thematically exploring the collection through the lens of a single artist, the exhibition seeks to establish a dialogue between art historical forerunners and contemporary artists.
Frank Badur’s oeuvre—analytical rigor and artistic intuition
Badur’s work bears a strong relationship to Concrete Art and unfolds in the dynamic relationship between strictly constructed surfaces and color as a central design elements. In his compositions, color becomes space, creating simultaneous contrasts and making the instability of color perception tangible.
Color and form—perception and immersion
The exhibition oscillates between two poles: an analytical approach and an artistic intuitive use of color. The spectrum ranges from Josef Albers, who systematically explored the perception of color, to Marcia Hafif, who meticulously researched the fundamentals of color painting, to Joseph Marioni and Rudolf de Crignis, who make color itself the subject of their seemingly monochrome works, and on to the opulent color frenzy in the works of Andrea Ostermeyer.
Across the exhibition spaces, a variety of thematic areas emerge that deal with both the materiality of color and the perception of the viewer, as well as the relationship between color and form.
Artists in the exhibition include: Josef Albers, Kirstin Arndt, Corey d’Augustine, Frank Badur, Rudolf de Crignis, Rupprecht Geiger, Marcia Hafif, Martina Klein, Imi Knoebel, Axel Lieber, Richard Long, Joseph Marioni, Cristina Ohlmer, Andrea Ostermeyer, Andreas von Ow, Winston Roeth, herman de vries.
SCHIRIN KRETSCHMANN
September 21, 2025 – Februar 8, 2026
Opening: Sunday, September 21, 2025 11 a.m.
The artist Schirin Kretschmann (b. 1980 in Karlsruhe, lives in Berlin) works in the overlapping fields of installation painting and performance. At the invitation of the PEAC Museum, she is developing a site-specific exhibit for which she is radically recoding the exhibition spaces. Instead of presenting individual works, she will transform the space’s structure into a zone of lively interaction, where events large and small, loud and quiet, continually intermingle and relate to one another. The spatial and temporal experience of Kretschmann’s work is marked by spontaneous coincidences, loops, patterns, pauses, and synaesthetic interconnections. She challenges visitors to break away from linear orders of perception and to understand an exhibition as more than a one-time event limited by time and place.
Schirin Kretschmann studied fine art, art education, and German literature in Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Mexico City, Basel, and Weimar. Since the early 2000s, her work has been shown internationally in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions. In addition, Kretschmann has realized several art projects in public spaces. As part of her long-term artistic and curatorial research, she has been developing projects for indoor and outdoor spaces at Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen since 2022. Schirin Kretschmann completed her doctorate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on „Painting in an expanded field of action“ and has been Professor of Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2020.
Current exhibition
ELODIE SEGUIN
LOOK LOOP
September 15, 2024 – March 9, 2025
The first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany by French artist Elodie Seguin is on view at the PEAC Museum until March 9, 2025. The exhibition Look Loop presents the artist’s multifaceted and cross-genre work.
On January 12, 2025, at 11 a.m., the artist will be in conversation with Luca Cerizza, curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024. Cerizza has been following Elodie Seguin’s work since the beginning of her artistic practice. The conversation will be held in English.
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About PEAC Museum
PEAC Museum is a center for modern and contemporary art, hosting a varied program of exhibitions. The museum also houses the eponymous Paul Ege Art Collection (PEAC), with a focus on minimal art, radical painting and conceptual approaches since the 1970s. The museum is situated in Freiburg on the premises of the Alexander Bürkle company, run by the third generation of the Ege family, and is supported by the Ege Art and Culture Foundation. The exhibition halls, which opened in 2004 under the name “Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle”, span around 1,000 square meters. Since fall 2019, the former art space has been operating under the name PEAC Museum.
Cultural partner of PEAC Museum: SWR2
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