Peter Zimmermann: Painting Rules

Nunu Fine Art is honored to collaborate with the Metropolitan Museum of Manila (The M), Philippines, to present Painting Rules, a solo exhibition by German artist Peter Zimmermann (b. 1956). This exhibition marks Zimmermann’s first solo presentation in the Philippines. Painting Rules will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila on February 4, 2026, and will subsequently travel to Nunu Fine Art Taipei from April 11. 

Painting Rules centers on Zimmermann’s newly developed sticker-based installation works, presented alongside a new body of epoxy paintings. Together, these works reflect a significant shift and experimental turn in his recent practice. Through this dual presentation, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider painting within a contemporary context shaped by the rapid evolution of digital imagery and artificial intelligence.  

Departing from Zimmermann’s previous exhibitions, which focused primarily on canvas-based painting, Painting Rules introduces installation works that employ stickers as a core material. Treated as modular visual units, the stickers can be repeated, dismantled, and reconfigured to generate imagery directly within the exhibition space. This approach extends the artist’s long-standing exploration of image translation while simultaneously liberating painting from the confines of the canvas, transforming it into a spatial and collaborative mode of engagement.