Carpet Diem 2026 at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich
Carpet Diem is a long-running lecture series on historic carpets and textiles held at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich. The series is organized by Michael Buddeberg and takes place within the museum context, addressing textile topics with a clear focus on close visual analysis, historical context, and material understanding.
Program 2026
All lectures begin at 16:00 and take place at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich. The lectures are generally held in German but Alberto Boralevi will speak in English.
11 January 2026
Michael Buddeberg
One Collection of Anatolian Carpets
19 April 2026
Wolfgang Windau
Main Carpets of the Beluch
5 July 2026
Alberto Boralevi
Exciting Carpet Finds in Italy: Forty Years of Hunting for Unpublished Masterpieces
4 October 2026
Juliane von Fiercks
At the Crossroads of Cultures – Textiles from the Silk Road
Opening lecture: A Collection of Anatolian Carpets
Lecture by Dr. Michael Buddeberg, Sunday 11 January 2026, 16:00
The opening lecture of the 2026 Carpet Diem program is devoted to a private but carefully developed collection of Anatolian carpets assembled by Dr. Michael Buddeberg over a period of roughly forty years. The focus lies on village and nomadic carpets woven in Anatolia during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Unlike Caucasian carpets, whose visual impact is often immediate, these Anatolian pieces reveal their qualities gradually. Their aesthetic strength lies in subtle relationships between pattern, color, and proportion, which require time and attentive viewing. The collection comprises fewer than two dozen carpets, but each piece has its own distinct acquisition history.
In the lecture, selected carpets are presented alongside comparative examples from the scholarly literature.
Location and more information: Carpet Diem, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Maximilianstraße 42, München