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 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.

A collection of work by these artists, celebrating their enduring legacy and emphasizing how both used self-representation in an imaginative and defiant way, embracing duality and multiplicity of identities.

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

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.

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 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.

~120 paintings, drawings, graphic works, photographs, film clips, digital media, objects and installations in this foray through modern art, progressing all the way through to contemporary works, examining the aesthetics of decadence in their various aspects, and 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.

~50 key works reflecting major themes of Surrealism such as dreams, the unconscious, metamorphoses or the forest as a site of mystery, including artists such as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning and many more.

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.

Over 100 major works by over 50 artists, drawn entirely from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, including Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Leonora Carrington, and Dorothea Tanning.

Curated by Estrella de Diego.
Third 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. Mapfré highlights that, despite its peripheral location in relation to the centres of the European artistic avant-garde, Spain not only contributed some of its most representative figures (Dalí, Buñuel, Domínguez...), but also many important yet lesser-known artists.

Curated by Walburga Krupp in partnership with Caroline Ugelstad.
Second venue for these two co-founders of Dadaism and central figures of 20th-century abstract art, offering a unique opportunity to discover Sophie Taeuber-Arp's colourful and geometric abstract work alongside Hans/Jean Arp's biomorphic forms, collages and sculptures.

Curated by Isidro Hernández.
Paintings, decalcomanias, drawings and objects by this too-often overlooked giant of Surrealism.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

~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.

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.

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.

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.