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 Victoria Combalia (for Dora Maar) and Alba Romano-Pace (for Jacqueline Lamba).
Showcasing works from the 1930s to the 1970s, from surrealism to abstraction, including some rare and unseen pieces by both artists, such as a unique fold-out notebook by Dora Maar featuring a series of portraits of Jacqueline Lamba, major canvases by Lamba and ink landscapes by both artists, with strong formal links.

Combining Leonora Carrington's occultist Surrealism and mythical sculptures, Leonor Fini's erotic drawings and Dorothea Tanning's kaleidoscopic landscapes into conversation in the spirit of the friendship they enjoyed as well as the idea of the wider collective spirit of Surrealism.

74 works created between 1956 and 1977 including paintings, sculptures, models, ceramics and prints.

A superb survey of one of Surrealism's most creative exponents, including some twenty works from the 1920s-30s.

Nearly 30 paintings and prints on loan from the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL juxtaposed with European masterpieces from the MFA's collection, including portraits, religious scenes, and still-lifes by El Greco, Orazio Gentileschi, and Velázquez, among others.

For the 100th anniversary of surrealism, this leading gallery offers a new exhibition centered around the Grand Transparent by Jacques Hérold and the Costume of the Execution of the Testament of the Marquis de Sade by Jean Benoît.

Uniting the works of four artists whose journeys from diverse locales converged in the creative capital of Paris.

Co-curated by Amelia Kahl and Neely McNulty.
Works from the Hood's permanent collection, ranging from painting to printmaking to ceramics to wood sculptures, are presented with interactive features such as a creative writing space and scent stations, aiming to stimulate a holistic sensory experience.

Over thirty paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning all of Masson's creative periods.

Over 50 works spanning painting, sculpture, ceramic, watercolor, and collage by 27 artists including works by historical figures such as Gertrude Abercrombie, Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonor Fini, and Alejandro Jodorowsky in dialogue with contemporary practitioners.

Curated by Emmanuel Tibloux.
An examination of the surrealist library of Simone Collinet with a selection of works by Hans Bellmer, DMiriam Cahn, Claude Cahun, Arthur Cravan, André Derain, Oscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Léonor Fini, Aline Gagnaire, René Magritte, Marcel Moore, Man Ray, Bona de Mandiargues, André Masson, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Clovis Trouille, and many others.

For the centenary of Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism, Maggiore g.a.m. presents a commemorative exhibition in its new Paris venue examining ancestral and instinctive features in the art practice of some Surrealists inspired by primitive cultures, ancient civilizations and exotics tribes.

~120 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, films, by artists including Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Claude Cahun, among others, engaging in a dialogue with contemporary artists like Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, or David Lynch, shedding light on themes such as identity, gender, technology, and mental health.

Curated by Patricia Mayayo.
A curated reinterpretation, including works by all of the artists featured in the original show, of the legendary 1943 exhibition held in New York at Art of This Century. Originally conceived by Guggenheim in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp, and with artists selected by a jury whose members included André Breton, Max Ernst and Duchamp himself, this was one of the first exhibitions in the USA exclusively showcasing works by European and American women.

This wide-ranging exhibition examines the complex contribution of women to the Dada movement and shows the liberatory striving toward emancipation. Contemporary artworks, illustrate the movement's continuing impact up to the present day. Includes works by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Emmy Hennings, Hannah Höch, among others.

Far better known in her pivotal roles as patron of the arts, muse, fashion icon, socialite, writer, and poet, this show features her rarely exhibited artworks in conversation with many of her better known peers including Christian Bérard, Jean Cocteau, Lucien Coutaud, Oscar Dominguez, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Georges Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, Félix Labisse, Jacqueline Lamba, Dora Maar, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, among others.

Curated by Claire Howard.
Drawn from the Blanton's collection with select loans and including Surrealists such as Hans Bellmer, Leonora Carrington, Federico Castellon, Max Ernst, Wifredo Lam, Man Ray, and Stephen Robeson-Miller, alongside artists inspired by its innovations, including Yayoi Kusama and Dorothy Hood, and contemporary artists working within its vocabulary.

Curated by Didier Ottinger and Marie Sarré.
Second of five venues for this blockbuster traveling show marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement with each partnering museum hosting the core of the travelling exhibition, and further focusing on their own collections. The Pompidou will depict a journey punctuated by 14 chapters evoking the literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade, etc.) and the poetic principles that structure its imagination (the artist-medium, the dream, the philosopher's stone, the forest, etc.)

Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, Paris and still subject to change, Autumn 2024 brings a major exhibition dedicated to the lesser-known surreal work of the Swiss sculptor, painter and illustrator. Like Max Ernst, the sculptor was drawn to Paris in 1922, where they met in 1928 and worked in neighbouring studios. With his work La Boule suspendue, Giacometti was accepted into the circle of Surrealists in 1930.

To celebrate 100 years of Surrealism, the gallery is exhibiting their legendary 1926 publication of 34 frottages.

A reexamination of the 1959 exhibition hosted by Daniel Cordier celebrating eroticism and the Surrealists' fundamental need for transgression, featuring a labyrinth of works by Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Robert Rauschenberg, Mimi Parent and a host of others, including some of the group's historic works and other related works that have never been shown before.

Curated by Joanne Snrech and Orane Stalpers.
This exhibition revisits the early career of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), marked by the influence of regionalism and Mexican muralists, right up to his first dripped paintings in 1947.

A Belgian poet, writer, illustrator, painter and sculptor, Marianne Van Hirtum's meeting with André Breton in 1955, was decisive. She participated in the group's meetings and exhibitions, notably the International Exhibition of Surrealism at the Cordier Gallery in 1959.

Over 100 works in Australia's first retrospective of this celebrated surrealist, organised by the Art Gallery of NSW with the close co-operation of the Magritte Foundation, Brussels and in partnership with the Menil Collection, Houston.

Curated by Dr. Agustín Arteaga and Sue Canterbury.
60 paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs exploring the life of one of the 20th century's most well-documented artists, who continues to elude our understanding of her as an individual.

Curated by Karin Althaus, Adrian Djukic and Stephanie Weber.
Structured as a constellation of episodes with an objective to make Surrealism visible as a combative, internationally networked, and highly politicized movement, guided by an idea that was central to Surrealism: anti-fascism. Preliminary artist list includes Art & Liberté, Georges Bataille, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Claude Cahun und Marcel Moore, Leonora Carrington, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Óscar Domínguez, Robert Desnos, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Esteban Francés, Eugenio Granell, Groupe Octobre, John Heartfield, Jindrich Heisler, Jacques Hérold, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Dora Maar, La Main à Plume, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Lee Miller, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, Pablo Picasso, Jacques Prévert, Jindrich Styrský, Yves Tanguy, Karel Teige, Toyen, Remedios Varo, Wols, among many others.

42 contemporary giclee prints made from scans of Cahun's original photographic self-portraits, as the majority of the negatives have been lost. A Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.

Curated by Ivonne Papin-Drastik with Aurosi Moreno.
Exploring the notion of Imagination and Fantasy in the art of tapestry from the 16th century to today, including works by Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Roberto Matta, and others.

Curated by Marlene Oliveira, Perfecto Cuadrado and Miguel de Carvalho.
Featuring a vast selection of works by Portuguese and foreign artists and authors, whose creations are closely linked to Surrealism, from its beginnings to the present day.

This leading figure in 20th century Belgian painting will be honoured in a landmark event, presenting masterpiece paintings, drawings and objects unseen or brought together for many years.

Curated by Professor Patricia Allmer.
Works by Renate Bertlmann, Birgit Jürgenssen, Bady Minck, Meret Oppenheim, Pipilotti Rist, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) and Eva Wipf and their potent and multiple critiques of patriarchy.

Curated by Georges Didi-Huberman.
Setting forth a political anthropology of emotion in a poetic tone, sketching channels of respiration and resistance to confront the persuasive culture of capitalism which has filtered into everything, this exhibition investigates the potentially transformative side of emotion and its capacity to disrupt and search for otherness. Including works by Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, and Unica Zürn, among others.

Curated by Norman Rosenthal, Dawn Ades, and Elisabetta Barisoni with the collaboration of Matta Archives.
Exploring the multiplicity and depth of Matta's output of paintings, drawings and sculptures and revealing his many-sided creativity, ranging from architecture to science, literature, linguistics, political issues, mathematics, humour and eroticism.

Ernst constantly broke with artistic conventions and experimented with new techniques. He was not, however, a photographer. This exhibition looks for points of connection between his oeuvre and photography. Some of these are direct, as in photo-collages, however they are often indirect, and serve to confuse.

A journey through the fantastical terrains of Surrealism over 100 years, looking at how Surreal ideas can turn landscape into a metaphor for the unconscious, fuse the bodily with the botanical, and provide means to express political anxieties, gender constraints and freedoms. Trans-historical, thematic groupings of artwork will bring together artists of Breton's circle from the 1920s, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Eileen Agar, Lee Miller and Max Ernst, among others, alongside later Surrealists such as Leonora Carrington, Edith Rimmington, Marion Adnams, Conroy Maddox, Desmond Morris and more

Curated by William Jeffett.
Over 100 works created by more than 50 artists, including Eileen Agar, Eugène Atget, Hans Bellmer, Brassaï, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Georges Hugnet, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Man Ray and Wols, highlighting the movement's original aims in the medium of photography and its far-reaching influence.

~120 paintings, drawings, graphic works, photographs, film clips, digital media, objects and installations in this foray through modern art, progressing all the way through to contemporary works, examining the aesthetics of decadence in their various aspects, and including themes such as the birth of beauty from decay, the relation between artifice and nature, or the idea of the surrogate, all the way through to the concept of kitsch, a popular point of reference for the artists of Surrealism.

~50 key works reflecting major themes of Surrealism such as dreams, the unconscious, metamorphoses or the forest as a site of mystery, including artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning and many more.

An important figure in British Surrealism during the 1930s and 40s, Colquhoun explored the possibilities of divine feminine power and the intertwined realms of art, gender, ecology and magic. This exhibition will bring together over 200 artworks and archival materials - many of which have never been shown publicly before - culminating a room devoted to Colquhoun's Taro deck.

Curated by Estrella de Diego.
Third of five venues for this blockbuster traveling show marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement with each partnering museum hosting the core of the travelling exhibition, and further focusing on their own collections. Mapfré highlights that, despite its peripheral location in relation to the centres of the European artistic avant-garde, Spain not only contributed some of its most representative figures (Dalí, Buñuel, Domínguez...), but also many important yet lesser-known artists.

Curated by Isidro Hernández.
Paintings, decalcomanias, drawings and objects by this too-often overlooked giant of Surrealism.

Combining paintings, engravings, sculptures, photographs and literary documents from the museum's collections, this exhibition presents the works of emblematic artists of the movement such as Hans Bellmer, Marcel Jean, Roberto Matta, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Pierre Molinier, and others.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martìn.
This exhibition, including painting, drawing, photography, decorative art, fashion design, costumes, artist's books and documents, is inspired by the reflections that her art provoked in important writers and artists of her time, including Jean Genet, Max Ernst or Jean Cocteau. The identification with the Sphinx, a legendary creature, is also the curators' statement of principles about the multifaceted aspects of her work and about its ever-evolving nature.

Curated by Eric Crosby and Sarah Humphreville with Cynthia Stucki.
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.

Curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori.
More than 30 works in tempera, gouache, acrylic, oil, pencil, pen, and fiber spanning over six decades of Carrington's prolific art-making career in this, her first-ever museum exhibition in New England

An artistic dialogue between the two great Mexican artists composed of the works Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot (1942) and Untitled (Abortion) (1932) by Kahlo and Dance in Tehuantepec (1928) by Rivera, along with a series of historical photographs and letters that give an account of their life together, the couple's interests, and Mexican cultural identity during the first half of the 20th century.

Curated by Dr. Annabelle Görgen-Lammers.
Fourth of five venues for this blockbuster traveling show marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement with each partnering museum hosting the core of the travelling exhibition, and further focusing on their own collections. Masterpieces by Ernst, Oppenheim, Magritte, Dalí, Toyen, Masson, and many others show that in addition to poets such as Novalis, Achim and Bettina von Arnim, Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Karoline von Günderrode, the great romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810) also played an important role in the search for a revolutionary art in the 20th century.

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.

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 Laura Bartolomé Roviras and Judith Clark.
Fashion is perhaps one of the least familiar fields in which Dali embodied his artistic universe. Yet, fashion is one of the artist's most prolific contributions at all stages of his career. This is a unique opportunity to admire and gain insight into Salvador Dali's astonishing complexity and in part his work as an eclectic genius.

~250 vintage and modern prints, including those never previously displayed, in this most extensive retrospective of Miller's photography yet staged in the UK, showcasing her extraordinary career, from her participation in French surrealism to her fashion and war photography.

Fifth and final venue for this blockbuster traveling show marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement with each partnering museum hosting the core of the travelling exhibition, and further focusing on their own collections.

Curated by Tere Arcq.
Paintings, photographs, books, and archival material in the first exhibition entirely dedicated to Leonora Carrington held in Italy.