Surrealist Calendar

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.

Featuring thirty paintings and works on paper created between 1925 and 1984, this exhibition presents works of the renowned father and son as a lens to examine the rich cultural exchange between the European émigrés and the American art scene during and after World War II.

Ten pioneering female artists to the global Surrealist movement who shared influences and themes in their practices, including displacement, the profound impact of war, the experience of migration and exile, explorations of identity and gender, and the intersection of personal and cultural mythologies. This exhibition will be on view in this gallery's recently opened New York space concurrently with their presentation at Independent 20th Century from September 5-8.

Three rarely displayed suites of botanical prints made by Dalí between 1968 and 1972 on display together for the first time in two decades. These astonishing works transform renderings of fruits and flowers, reimagining them as surreal creations at the height of the Pop era.

Curated by Joanna Moorhead.
Paintings, tapestries, drawings, sculptures, jewellery, and a series of masks made by Carrington for a theatrical production of The Tempest in the 1950s in this re-examination of her work in the light of her posthumous success.

Concentrating on Tanning's late-career collages from the 1980s and 1990s and featuring the monumental Encyclopedia (1990-95), a mural-scale, five-panel collage that represents the culmination of Tanning's collage practice and will be exhibited here for the first time in its entirety.

Curated by David Greenslade and Incunabula Media.
Swansea hosts a three-week exhibition of contemporary Surrealist art with readings, films, music and performances and featuring mainly Welsh artists, most of them from Swansea, alongside guests from Australia, Ukraine, Romania, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ireland and other parts of the UK.

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.

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, Jean Cocteau, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, and Man Ray, among others.

The Kumu project space features seven paintings by Leonora Carrington from her Mexican period, marking the 100th anniversary of Surrealism worldwide.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 for the Centre Pompidou.

Curated by Dr. Annabelle Görgen-Lammers assisted by Maria Sitte for the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Blockbuster traveling show marking the centennial of the Surrealist movement. Each partnering museum will host the core of the travelling exhibition, with a focus 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

This exhibition sets out on a foray through modern art, progressing all the way through to contemporary works, to examine the aesthetics of decadence in their various aspects, 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.

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 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.

Details to be announced.

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 Lena Essling.
The exhibition follows in the wake of the best-known works of classical surrealism by later artists that are dealing with the subconscious, the irrational, and the darker, violent aspects of a craving culture, with works by Maya Deren, Rebecca Horn, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Meret Oppenheim, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Tanning, and Toyen, among 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.

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