Nunu Fine Art has announced a collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Manila to present German artist Peter Zimmermann’s solo exhibition Painting Rules, which opened at Nunu Fine Art Taipei on 11 April 2026. The exhibition, first presented in Manila earlier this year, marks Zimmermann’s first solo presentation in the Philippines and brings together his recent sticker-based installation works alongside a new body of epoxy paintings.
Together, these works signal a move towards a more experimental direction in Zimmermann’s practice, inviting viewers to reconsider painting within the context of quickly evolving digital imagery and artificial intelligence. While his earlier work centred on canvas-based painting, Painting Rules introduces stickers as a primary material, treated as modular units that can be repeated and reconfigured to generate imagery within the exhibition space.
The exhibition also reflects Zimmermann’s long-standing engagement with image translation and digital processes, which he has explored since the 1990s through algorithmically altered source material. By extending these concerns into spatial installation, the works position painting between the digital and the physical, while also raising questions around perception and the reliability of images. Following its presentation in Manila, the exhibition will travel to Taipei, where further iterations of the sticker-based installations will be developed.
