Surrealist Calendar

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.

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.

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.

Curated by Patrick Mauriès.
Over 100 works, from private and public collections, brought together to (re)discover one of the first post-modern movements based on the questioning of abstraction and the return to the figure, including works by Christian Bérard, Pavel Tchelitchew, Eugene Berman, Leonid Berman, and Kristians Tonny.

Over forty paintings and works on paper, retracing Lepri's career from his early years to when he met Leonor Fini and through the end of the 1970s.

Exploring the relationships between Joseph Cornell and two pioneering artists: Ray Johnson and Yayoi Kusama, this exhibition examines the prominent role Cornell played within the vast network of references and free-form associations that Johnson synthesized from his every-day life and also traces how Kusama turned to collage to evoke and commemorate Cornell.

~12 works in this Spanish artist's only second solo gallery exhibition since her death in 1963, including her last painting Naturaleza muerta resucitando (1963).

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.

Curated by Victoria Noel-Johnson.
Featuring 60 artworks lent by museums, institutions and private collections, here is only the third joint show of their work ever to be organized.

Curated by Els Hoek with the collaboration of Alessandro Nigro.
180 paintings, sculptures, drawings, documents, and artifacts, all from the collection of one of the leading museums in the Netherlands - and their dialogue with some masterpieces from the MUDEC's Permanent Collection.

This new online exhibition, drawn from the collection of Dorothea Tanning, assembles six key examples of Ernst's impressive work in bronze, unearthing the whimsical yet rigorous methodology by which the preeminent figure of Dada and Surrealism approached his sculpture practice.

Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and film featuring artworks by Surrealist artists such as Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, and Leonora Carrington, as well as contemporary artists, illustrating that the ideology, themes, and techniques of Surrealism are still alive today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Curated by Jennifer R. Gross.
Over 80 paintings, drawings, and constructions in the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy, one of the more inscrutable artists and poets of the twentieth century.

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.

~150 photographs from the period 1929 to 1951 by one of the twentieth century's most versatile artists.

Curated by Guillermo Solana.
~63 works from the museum's permanent collection as well as the private collections of various members of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family, revealing documented traces of the occult and divided into seven sections: Alchemy-Astrology-Demonology-Spiritism-Theosophy-Shamanism-Oneiromancy.

Curated by Julia Schuster and Dr. Erika Schuster.
Over 80 works, including lithographs, etchings, frottages, collages and sculptures spanning from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Curated by Martina Mazzotta and Jurgen Pech.
~120 works retracing the career of this ingenious artist and highlighting his close links with nature, games, magic, and freedom.

Curated by Peter Tush.
~100 rarely seen works on paper from The Dali Museum's permanent collection, spanning the entire length of his creative life, from 1916 through 1974, in a variety of media, including pencil, pen, charcoal, watercolor, gouache, and more.

Curated by Isidro Hernandez.
Over 70 works by this key figure of the surrealist adventure in the 20th century, including many of his most prized works from the 1930s, exhibited alongside other surrealists including Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Andre Breton, Leonora Carrington, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Jacques Herold, Georges Hugnet, Marcel Jean, Wifredo Lam, Dora Maar, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Roberto Matta, Yves Tanguy, Remedios Varo, et al.

Curated by Dr. Susan L. Aberth.

Curated by Robert Rocca and Pierre-Yves Butzbach.

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.

A trove of masterpieces on loan from the (renovating) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen including works by Dali, Magritte, Ernst, Miro, Duchamp, Man Ray, Carrington, Delvaux, and many others.

Curated by Paul B. Franklin.
The centerpiece of this exhibition is the Box in a Valise (1935-41), a portable museum of 69 miniature replicas and reproductions of Duchamp's work, which Peggy Guggenheim acquired from the artist in 1941 along with major loans from Italian and American museums and several important private collections, including ~30 artworks from a private collection in Venice.