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 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.

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.

The first solo exhibition in Southeast Asia dedicated to pioneering artist Wifredo Lam, bringing together over 60 works on paper from the Wifredo Lam Estate, and offering rare insight into the printmaking practice of an artist who is increasingly recognised as one of the most important figures in 20th century modern art.

Major retrospective featuring works from the 1930s until the 1970s, showcasing Oppenheim's wide-ranging and boundary-breaking practice across painting, drawing, sculpture and design.

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.

A core group of paintings from the 1950s and '60s, in which the artist rendered impossible situations with virtuosic precision and uncanny clarity. Now regarded as icons of the Surrealist movement, these paintings were purchased within a couple years of their making by the museum's founders, John and Dominique de Menil.

~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.

A concept popularized by Sigmund Freud in 1919, the uncanny describes the psychological experience of something that is strangely familiar, yet alien, eliciting a sense of anxiety. In historical representations, women's bodies were often associated with strangeness and horror, or positioned as passive or uncanny objects when viewed through a male gaze. This exhibition uncovers women's authorship of uncanny narratives, revealing how the concept is used by women artists to regain agency and probe feelings of revulsion, fear, and discomfort.

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.

Over 60 works, including the works by Salvador Dalì exhibited in the Dalì exhibition hosted in Tokyo 1964, in New York 1965 and in Geneva 1970, aiming to investigate the concepts of fantasy, magic, mystery and the unconscious.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Curated by Christian Alandete.
One of the first subjects in the history of art, the animal appears from parietal art and crosses the centuries to the present day with the same importance. Already a subject of excellence in academic art, at the turn of the 20th century the animal became the vector of successive avant-garde movements. Other artists would see in them subjects of study likely to revolutionize the aesthetic experience by taking an interest - like the surrealists - in hybrid species and specimens of the animal kingdom previously classified as monsters. Through these new subjects of observation, it is also the evolution of a more humanist society that shines through, driven by a complete questioning of the place of humans and animals within the community of the living. Over 150 works by 130 artists including Rosa Bonheur, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, Francisco de Goya, Vassily Kandinsky, and Dorothea Tanning.

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.

Curated by Jay A. Clarke and Jamie Vaught-Karasek.
Over 85 works on paper capturing the beauty and strangeness of a mysterious generation of Symbolist artists drawn from the AIC's rich and historic collection of drawings and prints.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

~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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A major retrospective, featuring around 200 works from national and international collections, explores this multifaceted and groundbreaking avant-gardist of classical modernism.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.