Barbara Schroeder, grew up in the countryside, and now takes her inspiration in peasant materials, practices, and stories. They permit her to create works rooted in the living world. Porcelain, cow dung, potatoes, and everyday agricultural tools become the memory of a rural world whose customs and values are threatened.
Contemporary Crossed Perspectives
With the artist Barbara Schroeder
With the artist Barbara Schroeder
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Accrochage thématique, Art contemporain
26 February 2026 - 26 May 2026
The artist Barbara Schroeder proposes a contemporary counterpoint to François-André Vincent's masterpiece, The Ploughing Lesson (1798), inviting us to look at the rural world with a new perspective. Far from being a simple celebration of the countryside, her installation questions our relation to the land and to those who cultivate it.
Location :
Lacour wing
In a changing agricultural world, this work becomes an act of transmission and resistance. This dialogue with The Ploughing Lesson also illuminates a crucial distinction in its approach: one between agriculture and peasantry. The latter is not limited to the production of resources; it embodies a way of life and a way of thinking about our relationship to the environment.
This installation of six recent pieces invites us to reflect on the value and meaning of peasant work, to recognize the beauty and resilience of the gestures it involves, and to question our responsibility towards living things.
- Note: Crossed perspectives on February 26 at 12 :15 PM with the artist and Isabelle Beccia, in charge of the institutional mediation at the Museum (Museum entrance, no reservation required)
Barbara Schroeder
Born in 1965 in Cleves, Germany. She lives and works in Teuillac (Gironde).
Since the 2000s, the artist has explored rural life and the link between humans and nature. Her work is featured in both traditional artistic institutions and heritage sites coming from outside the conventional world of contemporary art.
With a master's degree in visual arts and a DEA (postgraduate diploma) from the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Barbara Schroeder develops her practice through residencies and collaborations with farmers, scientists, writers, and chefs. She also places great importance on the involvement of local residents in her projects.
Five works by Barbara Schroeder are part of the MusBA collections: La Montagne noire (triptych), Collage, and Séraphins, all from the Robert Coustet bequest (2020). One of them will be displayed in the exhibition: Passions Collections. 10 Years of MusBA Acquisitions (2015-2025), presented in the Newsroom of the Lacour Wing, from April 1, 2026, to January 4, 2027. Barbara Schroeder already participated in two Crossed Perspectives exhibitions at the museum, focusing on cabbage and fire.