The German artist holds his first institutional solo exhibition in the Philippines, inviting viewers to step into a world where color and form unfold across vast, luminous surfaces.
Opening on February 3, 2026 at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (The M Museum), German artist Peter Zimmermann presents Painting Rules, his first institutional solo exhibition in the Philippines. Organized in collaboration with the Taipei- and New York–based gallery Nunu Fine Art, it invites audiences to encounter Zimmermann’s luminous reinterpretations of color and form, unfolding across vast, luminous surfaces.
Zimmermann has visited the Philippines on several occasions, notably through his participation in Art Fair Philippines under the aegis of Nunu Fine Art Gallery. Over the years, his works have entered the collections of several prominent Filipino collectors.
Painting Rules will also be featuring “Palladium” (2022), one of the artist’s most recent artworks, which now forms part of The M Museum’s permanent collection. The work was generously donated by the artist to the Museum.
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About Peter Zimmermann
Born in 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, and currently based in Cologne, Zimmermann began his artistic practice in the 1980s. His early works, known as “Book Cover Paintings,” transformed the covers and titles of atlases, art books, travel guides, and dictionaries into epoxy-on-canvas compositions.
His works would later evolve in complexity as he began creating forms constructed from layered epoxy resin that refract and distort photographs, film stills, and diagrams. In 2014, Zimmermann translated these conceptual investigations of “digital image generation” into oil painting. For the artist, digital image generation allows no “errors”; although digital images are “empty” and composed solely of algorithms, they can nonetheless elicit emotion and expression through processes of deconstruction.
“This is the guiding idea behind my epoxy resin paintings, which are based on digital templates such as photos, film stills, or diagrams,” Zimmermann shares in a statement. “I deconstruct and alienate these templates using graphic algorithms before transferring them, layer by layer, onto canvas in numerous transparent coatings.”
Working with oil or epoxy, the artist produces sleek, large-scale images composed of multiple interwoven layers of color and form. His works are distinguished by seamlessly blended gradients rendered on dibond panels that convey depth, clarity, and a liquid luminosity.
Zimmermann has presented solo exhibitions at Nunu Fine Art (Taipei, Taiwan), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (Düren, Germany), Dirimart (Istanbul, Turkey), Galerie Michael Janssen (Berlin, Germany), Galerie Perrotin (Paris, France), and CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Málaga, Spain). He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Moscow Biennale, the Venice Biennale, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. His works are held in numerous public and private collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, the Neue Galerie Graz in Austria, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
“Painting Rules” runs until April 30, 2026 at The M Museum in BGC, with an opening reception on February 3. The museum is open 11 AM to 6 PM on Tuesday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM on Saturday to Sunday, and closed on Mondays and other special holidays.
Photos courtesy of The M Museum (unless specified)
