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Surreal Worlds Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin
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.
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Sep 01, 2023 - ongoing |
Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
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. |
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May 07, 2024 - May 18, 2025 |
Óscar Domínguez: Dos que se cruzan Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canary Islands
Curated by Isidro Hernández.
Paintings, decalcomanias, drawings and objects by this too-often overlooked giant of Surrealism. |
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Oct 25, 2024 - May 18, 2025 |
Autour du Surréalisme: Les Chants de Maldoror et autres visions Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
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.
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Jan 18, 2025 - Jun 01, 2025 |
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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. |
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Jan 22, 2025 - Jun 01, 2025 |
Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
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 |
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Jan 22, 2025 - Jun 01, 2025 |
Surrealism(s): Then & Now Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
Curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori and Chad Sirois.
Drawn from the museum's permanent collection and tracing Surrealism's evolution from its early 20th-century origins to its lasting influence with artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Mona Hatoum, Frida Kahlo, Ljuba, René Magritte, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Tracy Moffatt, Pierre Roy, Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy, and many others. |
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Feb 21, 2025 - Jun 01, 2025 |
In Her Hands: Female Sculptors of Surrealism Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
Curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori and Chad Sirois.
Celebrating the rediscovery of three extraordinary female modern artists: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Maria Martins, and Isabelle Waldberg were-each in their own way-protagonists of the international Surrealist art movement between 1930 and 1960. |
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Aug 24, 2024 - Jun 21, 2025 |
A Century of Surrealism University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Curated by Violet Rose Arma.
Showcasing influences and participants in the movement from the mid 1920s to 1980, emphasizing the diffusion of Surrealist ideas and techniques in the American consciousness. Including works by Gertrude Abercrombie, Federico Castellon, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and others. |
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May 16, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025 Press Release |
Bona de Mandiargues Alison Jacques, London
Curated by Simon Grant.
Paintings, mixed media assemblages, as well as colour pencil and gouache works on paper spanning over 40 years, from 1951 to 1995, with a central theme being the meaning of self, explored through the metaphor of the androgynous snail. |
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Mar 29, 2025 - Jul 13, 2025 Press Release |
Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
100 objects, including seven of Kahlo's most important self-portraits, letters written by Kahlo recounting her time in Paris, book bindings, works on paper, photographs, and more illuminating the period of Kahlo's rise as an international artist and her serendipitous meeting with Mary Reynolds, a lesser-known but highly compelling artist and maker of innovative, one-of-a-kind book bindings.
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Feb 26, 2025 - Jul 20, 2025 |
Io Sono Leonor Fini Palazzo Reale, Milan
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. |
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Feb 02, 2025 - Aug 10, 2025 |
Surrealism: A Collective Dream Tampere Art Museum, Finland
~140 paintings, photographs, sculptures, prints, and films, by nearly seventy artists, showcasing works by avant-garde artists including Max Ernst, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Penny Slinger, Herbert Bayer, Meret Oppenheim, and Claude Cahun, as well as contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Tony Oursler, Erwin Wurm, Yayoi Kusama, Erró, and Sarah Lucas.
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Aug 25, 2024 - Aug 25, 2025 |
Frida and Diego: Transforming Affections Fundación Malba, Buenos Aires
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.
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Feb 27, 2025 - Sep 07, 2025 |
31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre, Portugal
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. |
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Apr 17, 2025 - Sep 28, 2025 |
Worlds of Wonder: The Surrealist Journey of Alan Glass Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Curated by Abigail Susik, Kristoffer Noheden, Xavier de la Riva, Joshua Sánchez, and Elisabeth Otto.
Drawings and intricate boxed assemblages by this Montreal-born artist who lived most of his life in Mexico. |
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Feb 13, 2025 - Sep 30, 2025 |
Max Ernst: Paris, 1922-1928 Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Fifty four works on five year loan from the Aram Mouradian Collection: 14 paintings, 6 drawings and the 34 collotypes comprising the celebrated Histoire naturelle portfolio, joined by temporary loans of a sculpture and additional documents.
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Apr 12, 2025 - Oct 05, 2025 |
Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Over 150 pieces of jewelry designed by some 140 of the most significant artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, including emblematic charms by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, striking headpieces by Man Ray and Hiroshi Sugimoto, surreal accessories by Dorothea Tanning?and Salvador Dalí, and others.
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Jun 13, 2025 - Oct 12, 2025 |
Rendezvous of Dreams: Surrealism and German Romanticism Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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 traveling 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. |
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Jun 13, 2025 - Oct 19, 2025 |
Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds Tate Britain, London
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's second venue 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.
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Apr 09, 2024 - Oct 31, 2025 |
Lise Deharme: la Femme Surréaliste Musée de la Chalosse, Montfort-en-Chalosse, France
Friend, muse and patron of the Surrealists, Lise Deharme was André Breton's Lady with the Glove. A woman of letters, poet, novelist, and columnist, this singular artist remains elusive both through her personality and through her creations. Including nearly 80 works by 17 artists including André Breton, Claude Cahun, Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard, Dora Maar, and Man Ray, among others.
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May 30, 2025 - Nov 16, 2025 |
STRANGE!: Surrealisms 1950-1990 from the Collections of the Nationalgalerie Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Tracing the echoes of Surrealism - for example in the form of motivic or stylistic quotations or through the elective affinities of a similar worldview - in a selection of some 60 works produced during the Cold War by 40 artists from East and West.
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Sep 13, 2025 - Jan 11, 2026 |
Drawing the Surreal Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Major exhibition on surrealist drawings, presenting an extensive selection of works from the movement's most renowned names such as Salvador Dalí, André Masson and Méret Oppenheim.
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Oct 26, 2024 - Jan 11, 2026 |
The Subterranean Sky Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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. |
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Jul 12, 2025 - Jan 11, 2026 |
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
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. |
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Sep 24, 2025 - Jan 19, 2026 |
Sixties Surreal Whitney Museum, New York
Organized by Dan Nadel.
Over 100 artists in this ambitious, scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972, looking beyond now canonical movements to focus instead on the era's most fundamental, if underrecognized, aesthetic current-an efflorescence of psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies, undergirded by the imprint of historical Surrealism and its broad dissemination. |
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Leonora Carrington Palazzo Reale, Milan
Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín.
Paintings, photographs, books, and archival material emphasizing Carrington's lifelong relationship with Italy, starting with her discovery of Italian art in Florence as a teenager and exploring her post-Victorian and Celtic origins as well as her affiliation with Surrealism. This is the first exhibition entirely dedicated to Carrington held in Italy. |
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Sep __, 2025 - Jan __, 2026 |
Man Ray Palazzo Reale, Milan
Curated by Pierre-Yves Butzbach and Robert Rocca.
Through a thematic journey (self-portraits, muses, nudes, rayographs and solarizations, fashion), this exhibition offers the rediscovery of a truly one-of-a-kind artist and brilliant pioneer. |
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Oct 02, 2025 - Feb 15, 2026 |
Lee Miller Tate Britain, London
~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.
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Nov 08, 2025 - Feb 16, 2026 |
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Curated by Matthew Affron.
Fifth and final venue (the only in the USA) for this blockbuster traveling show marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement with each partnering museum hosting the core of the traveling exhibition, and further focusing on their own collections. |
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Nov 15, 2025 - Feb 22, 2026 |
Magritte: La Ligne de vie KMSKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Inspired by his 1938 lecture at the KMSKA on his vision of reality, this exhibition also delves deeper into Magritte as a connecting figure between surrealism in Antwerp and Brussels and includes a selection of works that were also highlighted during that lecture.
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Oct 17, 2025 - Mar 01, 2026 |
Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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.
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Nov 08, 2025 - Mar 16, 2026 Press Release |
Raoul Hausmann: Vision. Provocation. Dada. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
A major retrospective, featuring around 200 works from national and international collections, explores this multifaceted and groundbreaking avant-gardist of classical modernism.
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Nov 10, 2025 - Mar 28, 2026 Press Release |
Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream Museum of Modern Art, New York
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.
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Jan 18, 2026 - May 17, 2026 |
Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
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.
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Jun 25, 2026 - Jan 04, 2027 |
Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon Tate Modern, London
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.
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Rescheduled - Dates TBA |
Dali e la Moda Palazzo Reale, Milan
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. |
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