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.

A tribute event honoring the renowned French documentary filmmaker and writer Fabrice Maze, celebrated for his extensive work on the Surrealist movement. Centered around the release of the collector's book Fabrice Maze, créateur de signe ascendant (Éditions Rafael de Surtis), the event features book signings and a special screening of his documentary Le monde suspendu de Gisèle Prassinos.

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.

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.

This gallery's first exhibition since announcing European representation of the Estate of Eileen Agar brings together paintings and collages spanning almost 30 years of the artist's career (1957-1985), and a significant theme within the show is her fascination with nature.

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 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 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.

Over 70 paintings, drawings, photographs and ephemeral materials from The Dalí Museum's Collection and its Library and Archives in this exploration of Salvador Dalí's dynamic relationship with the United States and his profound impact on its art and culture.

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.

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.

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 Montse Aguer, Laura Bartolomé Roviras and Judith Clark.
Fashion is perhaps one of the least familiar fields in which Dalí embodied his artistic universe, yet it is one of the artist's most prolific contributions throughout his career. A unique opportunity to admire and gain an overview of Salvador Dalí's astonishing complexity and, in part, of his oeuvre of eclectic genius.

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.

Highlighting the contribution of women artists to the Surrealist movement and including works by Jane Graverol, Meret Oppenheim, Dorothea Tanning, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and others.

~120 photographs revealing the full scope of the artist's work in the studio-from lavish fashion imagery for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and commercial work for luxury brands to his stylized portraits of celebrities, his dance photography for the New York City Ballet, and his inimitable male nudes.

Curated by Natalie Dupêcher.
In 1946, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning left New York City, then the center of the Euro-American art world, for Sedona, Arizona. Over the next ten years, they created some of the most significant works of their careers in this small desert town. Sedona Surreal will reunite the paintings, sculptures, and other artworks that they made there, exploring the construction of artistic modernism far from a large urban center. It will be the first museum exhibition devoted to Ernst and Tanning's pivotal time in the Southwest.