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Jun 16, 2019 - ongoing |
Beyond Realism: Dada and Surrealism National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Over 40 works by 17 major artists exploring the two principal forms of Surrealist work: the first form is unpremeditated art that relies upon chance effects such as random mark-making and scraping, and the second form is the creation of apparently irrational images in a realistic style.
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Oct 30, 2022 - Mar 04, 2023 |
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern [2021-10-22 thru 2022-02-13] The Menil Collection [2022-03-25 thru 2022-09-18] Museum of Modern Art, New York [2022-10-30 thru 2023-03-04]
Curated by Nina Zimmer (Bern), Natalie Dupêcher (Houston), and Anne Umland (New York).
The first major transatlantic retrospective for this most important Swiss artist of the 20th century, comprehensively presenting all phases of her work, including objects, paintings, drawings, sculpture commissions, and poems. |
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Jun 18, 2022 - Apr 02, 2023 |
Strange Sensations: The Startling and Surreal in PAFA's Permanent Collection Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Curated by Christiana Cruz-Council.
20th and 21st-century works of art by 34 artists including Gertrude Abercrombie, Sue Coe, Rico Lebrun, Kurt Seligmann, and others that consider mysterious and otherworldly energies through a post-Surrealist lens. |
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May 05, 2022 - Apr 10, 2023 |
SURREAL! Imagining New Realities Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna
Curated by Monika Pessler and Daniela Finzi.
~100 works from the fields of painting, photography, and literature explore the tense relationship between psychoanalysis and surrealism with artists including Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Conroy Maddox, Andre Masson, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Savinio, Toyen (Marie Cermínová), Dorothea Tanning, among many others. |
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Mar 11, 2023 - Apr 22, 2023 |
Jacqueline Lamba - Painter Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco
Lamba's first gallery exhibition in the United States in seventy-four years, a retrospective featuring over forty paintings and works on paper spanning 1927 - 1988.
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Jan 15, 2023 - Apr 23, 2023 |
Image: Max Ernst in Photographs Max Ernst Museum, Bruhl
~150 selected images of one of the most photographed artist personalities of the 20th century taken by, among others, Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Lebeck, Lee Miller, Irving Penn and Man Ray.
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Nov 25, 2022 - Apr 30, 2023 |
The Shape of Dreams The Dali Museum, Florida
Curated by Dr. Hank Hine.
500 years of dream-inspired paintings from the 16th to 20th century, demonstrating how artists throughout time have depicted a profound yet common phenomenon of human experience - the dream. |
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Nov 18, 2022 - May 07, 2023 |
Surreal Worlds Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Featuring masterpieces by artists including Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, this collection exhibition shows selected works that open up magical worlds to us with their psychologically charged, emigmatic representations and imaginative objects.
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Feb 11, 2023 - May 07, 2023 |
Leonora Carrington: Revelation Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín.
Second of two venues for this first comprehensive presentation of Carrington's art in Spain, featuring over 100 of her paintings, drawings, tapestries, sculptures and books alongside selected works created by some of the most important artists around her - from Spanish Remedios Varo to German Max Ernst. |
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Nov 11, 2022 - May 14, 2023 |
Another Surrealism The Art Museum in Tønder, Denmark
The most significant collection of surrealist art in Denmark celebrates their recent acquisition of a major work from the late 1920s by Eugene de Sala, who introduced surrealism to Denmark, along with modern and contemporary works by artists including Franciska Clausen, Wilhelm Freddie, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Wilhelm Bjerke Petersen, Elsa Thoresen, and many others.
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Jan 29, 2023 - May 21, 2023 |
The Iconography of Dread: Symbolism to Surrealism Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Featuring works from the turn of the last century by Ferdinand Khnopff, Alfred Kubin, Odilon Redon, and Félicien Rops, as well as the Italian surrealist Giorgio Manzu and his Russian contemporaries, Ossip Zadkine and Alexander Archipenko, this exhibition dwells on the dark side of humanity through a host of cruel but unforgettable imagery.
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Feb 17, 2023 - May 28, 2023 [video] |
Victor Brauner: Inventions and Magic National Museum of Art Timisoara, Romania
Curated by Camille Morando.
Over 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures, illustrations and documents covering Brauner's entire artistic output, including loans of over 50 exceptional works from the Center Pompidou and other major French museums. |
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Feb 18, 2023 - Jun 12, 2023 |
Salvador Dali: The Image Disappears Art Institute Chicago, Chicago
Curated by Caitlin Haskell and Jennifer Cohen.
Focusing on the pivotal decade of the 1930s, when Salvador Dali emerged as the inventor of his own personal brand of Surrealism, this exhibition of 25 paintings, drawings, and surrealist objects considers Dali's work in light of two defining, if contradictory, impulses: an immense desire for visibility and the urge to disappear. |
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Mar 11, 2023 - Jul 09, 2023 |
Man Ray: Opere 1912-1975 Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Over three hundred photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, and films by one of the greatest photographers of the last century as well as an extraordinary avant-garde painter, sculptor and director.
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Aug 26, 2022 - Sep 01, 2023 |
Frida Kahlo: Diego y Yo Fundación Malba, Buenos Aires
The 1949 Diego y yo (Diego and I) and the 1942 Autorretrato con chango y loro (Self-portrait with monkey and parrot) paintings serve as centerpieces alongside a considerable collection of documents, including Frida Kahlo's photographs, letters and personal effects.
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Apr 21, 2023 - Sep 03, 2023 |
Hyperreal: Gray Foy Menil Drawing Institute, Houston
Curated by Kirsten Marples.
This exhibition celebrates two recent gifts that have made the Menil Collection the foremost repository of Foy's extraordinarily meticulous work, spanning the entirety of his career, from his early Surrealist compositions to his later inventive botanical and geological renderings. |
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Mar 31, 2023 - Sep 10, 2023 |
Surréalisme au Féminin? Musée de Montmartre Jardins Renoir, Paris
Curated by Alix Agret and Dominique Païni.
This exhibition explores the extent and various forms of involvement of female artists and poets in the Surrealist movement, featuring almost 150 works by fifty of these women, including Claude Cahun, Toyen, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Meret Oppenheim, and Leonora Carrington, and highlight other, less well-known, figures such as Marion Adnams, Ithell Colquhoun, Grace Pailthorpe, Jane Graverol, Suzanne Van Damme, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Franciska Clausen, Josette Exandier, and Yahne Le Toumelin. |
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Jun 02, 2023 - Sep 10, 2023 |
Fantastic Surrealists HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria
Curated by Sandro Droschl.
This exhibition explores works from the 1950's thru the 1980's by Austria's group of Fantastic Realists and considers their original significance and their continuing relevance. |
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Mar 31, 2023 - Sep 17, 2023 |
Molinier rose saumon Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux
Curated by Marie Canet, Emmanuelle Debur and Claire Jacquet.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of this institution which began its collection in 1982 with the acquisition of around thirty works by Molinier. Also including works by Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Clovis Trouille, Felix Labisse and many others. |
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Jun 10, 2023 - Sep 24, 2023 |
Lee Miller: A Photographer between War and Glamour Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
~150 photographs from the period 1929 to 1951 by one of the twentieth century's most versatile artists.
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Aug 15, 2023 - Oct 31, 2023 |
Stephen Robeson Miller Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York
Curated by Dr. Susan L. Aberth.
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Jul 29, 2023 - Nov 27, 2023 |
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions Art Institute Chicago, Chicago
Curated by Teresa Arcq and Caitlin Haskell.
~25 paintings from the height of her career in the 1950s and early 60s, plus drawings and archival materials in this first US solo museum exhibition since 2000, organised in partnership with the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. |
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