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Planetary Peasants

27.09.2025  to 30.11.2025 

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  • Iza Tarasewicz: Ruins and Promises, installation 2022; oxidised steel, paint, wire, 410x250x295 cm in the exhibition 'Planetary Peasants'; image: a wire model of a farmer's cart with four scythes, with a stylised model of a satellite suspended from it.

Planetary Peasants

Dates

27 September ‒ 30 November2025: Exhibition
September/October: Tuesday to Saturday 2 – 7 pm, Sunday and holidays 10 am – 7 pm
November: Tuesday to Saturday 2 – 6 pm, Sunday and holidays 10 am – 6 pm
The Café MUSE is open during exhibition opening hours.

On Friday, 28 November, the Schafhof and the exhibition will be closed for organisational reasons.

26 September, Friday 7 pm: Exhibition Opening

  • Greeting: Rainer Schneider, Vice President of the District Council of Upper Bavaria
  • Introduction: Isabel Oberländer and Eike Berg (European Art Forum) in conversation with artists featured in the exhibition

Shuttle taxi from Freising station: 6:45 p.m.; return approx. 8:50 p.m.

3 + 28 October, 4 p.m.: meetup+art
Guided tour of the exhibition with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

23 November, Sunday 3 p.m.: SYMPOSIUM | An invented conflict??

Lectures by:

  • Prof. Dr. Melanie Franke, Professor of Art History, University of Potsdam
  • Daniel Herrmann, Director of Werkleitz, Halle (Saale), curator of the exhibition
  • Dr. Rainhard Riepertinger, House of Bavarian History, Augsburg

Panel discussion with the speakers and:

  • Björn Vedder (art historian and author, Herrsching);
  • moderator: Eike Berg (European Art Forum)

The exhibition rooms and café are accessible without steps.
Admission to the exhibition and accompanying programmes is free of charge.

About the exhibition

In 2025, the end of the German Peasants’ War marks its 500th anniversary. This serves as the occasion for a contemporary artistic exploration. Based on the conditions and unresolved questions of the historical events, the project examines the state of globalized agriculture, the realities of life in rural areas today, and the relevance of the demands made in 1525.

The exhibition Planetary Peasants was created as a collaboration between the Saxony-Anhalt Cultural Foundation and Werkleitz, with 30 current international artistic positions presented at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg in Halle (Saale). A selection of six works at the Schafhof – European Art Forum Upper Bavaria focuses on social issues and problems that led to the Peasants' War 500 years ago and are still relevant today in various societies around the globe, albeit in a different form.

Participating Artists

Viktor Brim (GER)
Alice Creischer (GER)
Luisa Keintzel (GER)
Iza Tarasewicz (PL)
Total Refusal (Leonhard Müllner), Sarah Fichtinger & Nikola Supukovic (AT)
Michael Wang (USA)

Curators

Daniel Herrmann, Alexander Klose (Werkleitz)
Co-Curator in Freising: Eike Berg (European Art Forum)