Surrealist Calendar

A rotating exhibition highlighting paintings, drawings, collages, decalcomania, frottage, and fumages from the permanent collection, including important predecessors and successors presented alongside the main proponents of the movement such as Hans Bellmer, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, André Masson, Yves Tanguy, and many others.

Curated by Tobias Feldmann under the guidance of Director and Chief Curator Sabine Eckmann.
Historical documentary materials accompany a display of work by exiled artists including Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Matta, Yves Tanguy, among others, contextualizing their artistic practice during the wartime era.

Curated by Matthew Gale.
Over 100 works from the Tate's collection tracing the global reach of surrealism through well-known concerns of the movement such as dreams and desire.

A group exhibition with six internationally renowned artists, each having chosen works from the museum's world-class collection of Surrealist art to be shown in dialogue with their own work.

This exhibition traces the eventful journeys of paintings and sculptures from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, which now belongs to the Neue Nationalgalerie, across space and time - from Paris, the Surrealist movement's place of origin, to Brussels and other European cities, across the National Socialist era and the Second World War, to South America as well as into exile in the United States.

The most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, spanning the six decades of Lam's prolific career, with over 150 rarely seen artworks from the 1920s to the 1970s - including paintings, large-scale works on paper, collaborative drawings, illustrated books, prints, ceramics, and archival material - and with key loans from the Estate of Wifredo Lam, Paris.

Curated by Dr. Emilie Bouvard and Dr. William Jeffett.
A collaboration between The Dalí Museum and Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris; this groundbreaking exhibition marks the first time these two iconic artists have been presented in a comparative setting in the United States. The exhibition features a rich selection of paintings, sculptures and archival materials by Giacometti, drawn from the collections of Fondation Giacometti, displayed alongside works by Salvador Dalí from The Dalí Museum's collection.

Paintings and works on paper spanning the genres of portraiture, literary and erotic drawings, and original set and costume designs.

Initial venue featuring over 30 works by Kahlo, including some of her most well-known paintings, along with 120 by artists across five generations that she inspired.

Curated by Jonas Beyer (Kunsthaus Zurich) and Daan van Heesch (KBR).
~70 works from international collections, including key pieces from the Musée Félicien Rops, the Musée Marmottan Monet and the Musée d'Orsay. Félicien Rops' demonic-erotic imagery ranks among the most radical positions of the fin de siècle. His works deliberately opposed bourgeois morality and exposed its hypocrisy through irony, provocation and graphic precision. While celebrated as a book illustrator collaborating with literary outsiders such as Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé, Rops simultaneously developed a private body of work deliberately withdrawn from public view. In drawings and prints, he pushed the gender stereotypes of his era to the extreme and challenged prevailing social norms.

Curated by Eric Crosby and Sarah Humphreville with Cynthia Stucki.
Second of four venues for this touring retrospective.
Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977) was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art scene and a creative force who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings populated with objects and figures of personal significance. This is the most comprehensive museum presentation of the artist's work to date.

Paintings, works on paper, and sculpture drawn from important private and public collections, including the Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida; the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, alongside archival material that illuminates Dalí's creative evolution during one of the most consequential periods of the twentieth-century. Organized chronologically, the exhibition traces the artist as he emerged as a phenomenon unto himself, with a singular vision and persona intrinsic to his artistic expression.

Curated by Vincenzo Trione.
Major exhibition in three chapters across three linked Milanese museums bringing the masters of Metaphysics, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Carlo Carrà, Filippo de Pisis, and Giorgio Morandi, into dialogue with their international heirs of the 20th and 21st centuries.  The Palazzo Reale presents ~400 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, design objects, models, illustrations, comics, magazines, videos, and vinyl records, with national and international loans from over 150 public and private institutions, galleries, archives, and prestigious private collections.  The Museo del Novecento presents ~50 drawings, models, clothing, archival materials, and photographs demonstrating the work of de Chirico, Savinio, and Carrà in the city of Milan and their collaboration with some of its most important artistic and cultural institutions.  The Palazzo Citterio hosts a new tribute by William Kentridge to Giorgio Morandi.

Curated by Vanessa Boni.
The first institutional exhibition dedicated to Leonora Carrington's drawings from her Santander sketchbooks, offering a unique vantage point from which to reconsider the artist's wartime output, and anchored by the presentation of Down Below, a seminal early painting (1940) produced during Carrington's hospitalisation in Santander, offering a rare opportunity to view the work as it has never been exhibited in London before.

Curated by Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodríguez Roig from Fundació Joan Miró, in collaboration with Elsa Smithgall from The Phillips Collection.
Featuring 75 works by more than 30 artists from American and European collections, as well as from the Fundació Joan Miró's own collection.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín.
126 works in the first major exhibition in France devoted exclusively to Carrington's work, presenting her as a Vitruvian Woman: a total artist representing a model of harmony and innovation. Her creations merge human and animal, masculine and feminine, giving form to a world where metamorphoses and symbols respond to each other.

The Wisconsin Magic Realists burst onto the state's art scene in the early 1940s. Led by painters John Wilde and Karl Priebe, this group of colorful personalities, including Gertrude Abercrombie and Marshall Glasier, spanned the artistic communities of Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago, developing creative partnerships and friendships. Their fantastical depictions of the Midwest-sometimes eerie, often playful-questioned society's relationship to nature and the quirks of American life. This display explores three themes dear to the Magic Realists: self-representation, the landscape, and the life of objects.

Curated by Eric Crosby and Sarah Humphreville with Cynthia Stucki.
Third of four venues and the only Midwest stop for this touring retrospective.
Gertrude Abercrombie (American, 1909-1977) was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art scene and a creative force who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings populated with objects and figures of personal significance. This is the most comprehensive museum presentation of the artist's work to date.

Organised at the initiative of Tate Britain and in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, this exhibition brings together nearly 250 old and modern photographic prints, including several previously unseen, and offers a new perspective on the work of Lee Miller.

Curated by Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo, with Alexandra "Lo" Drexelius.
First of three venues featuring some 300 artworks in the first retrospective of the artist's work in the United States since 1973.

Organized in collaboration with the Tate, this exhibition focuses on the long trajectory and broad int'l reach of surrealism as a state of mind through a captivating selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other art objects, as well as publications and archival material.

Organized in conjunction with the Met's new production of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, the presentation at MoMA features artworks by Kahlo and Rivera in an elaborate setting designed by Jon Bausor, the set and co-costume designer of the opera. For both the opera and installation, Bausor evokes the artists' lives and artworks in his theatrical designs.

Curated by Anna Tellgren in collaboration with Philippe Ribeyrolles.
The first major presentation of Brassaï in Sweden, featuring around a hundred photographs in a collaboration between Moderna Museet, Estate Brassaï Succession, and Silvana Editoriale, Milan.

Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is known for his enigmatic art that celebrated the beauty of nature and mined the dreamlike depths of the imagination. Featuring an exceptional group of charcoal drawings, lithographs, and pastels from Getty's collection, this exhibition presents the French artist's fantastical world of haunting darkness and luminous color.

Organized by Grazina Subelyte, Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and guest curator Simon Grant.
The first large-scale museum exhibition celebrating Peggy Guggenheim's years in the UK and her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, active in London between 1938 and 1939.

Over 200 objects, including garments, accessories, jewelry, and archival materials in this examination of the pioneering 20th-century fashion designer, exploring her surrealist designs, collaborations with artists like Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, and her impact on art, fashion, and performance.

Over 40 major surrealist works from one of the world's strongest national collections, newly installed following their return from loan to international centennial exhibitions of the past two years.

Second venue featuring over 130 works, including some of her most well-known paintings, as well as documents, photographs and memorabilia taken from Kahlo's archives, along with works of more than 80 of her contemporaries and artists she inspired from later generations.

Curated by Lena Essling and Assistant Curator Corina Oprea.
Featuring nearly 200 works from the Moderna Museet Collection and around 30 loans from other art collections, libraries and archives, particularly focusing on film, literature and the performing arts, and including works by Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, Rebecca Horn, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Tanning, and Toyen, among many others.

Curated by Matthew Affron and Danielle Cooke.
Second of three venues featuring some 300 artworks in the first retrospective of the artist's work in the United States since 1973.

In autumn 2026, the SCHIRN will present the first major exhibition on Leonor Fini in Germany. Around 150 works, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and objects, offer a comprehensive insight into the artist's fascinating oeuvre.

This exhibition explores the practice of collecting among artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the wealth of three collections: those of the museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, the macLYON, and the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou.