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Surrealist Calendar

Current and upcoming exhibitions in museums and galleries



Permanent -
Exhibition
Surreal Worlds

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin

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.
Exhibition - Surreal Worlds

Sep 01, 2023 -
ongoing
Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

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.
Exhibition - Artists in Exile: European Surrealists in the US during and after World War II

May 07, 2024 -
May 18, 2025
Óscar Domínguez: Dos que se cruzan

Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Canary Islands

Curated by Isidro Hernández.
Paintings, decalcomanias, drawings and objects by this too-often overlooked giant of Surrealism.
Exhibition - Óscar Domínguez: Dos que se cruzan

Oct 25, 2024 -
May 18, 2025
Autour du Surréalisme: Les Chants de Maldoror et autres visions

Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France

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.
Exhibition - Autour du Surréalisme: Les Chants de Maldoror et autres visions

Jan 18, 2025 -
Jun 01, 2025
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

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.
Exhibition - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery

Jan 22, 2025 -
Jun 01, 2025
Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver

Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts

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
Exhibition - Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver

Jan 22, 2025 -
Jun 01, 2025
Surrealism(s): Then & Now

Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts

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.
Exhibition - Surrealism(s): Then & Now

Feb 21, 2025 -
Jun 01, 2025
In Her Hands: Female Sculptors of Surrealism

Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg

Curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori and Chad Sirois.
Celebrating the rediscovery of three extraordinary female modern artists: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Maria Martins, and Isabelle Waldberg were-each in their own way-protagonists of the international Surrealist art movement between 1930 and 1960.
Exhibition - In Her Hands: Female Sculptors of Surrealism

Aug 24, 2024 -
Jun 21, 2025
A Century of Surrealism

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson

Curated by Violet Rose Arma.
Showcasing influences and participants in the movement from the mid 1920s to 1980, emphasizing the diffusion of Surrealist ideas and techniques in the American consciousness. Including works by Gertrude Abercrombie, Federico Castellon, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Yves Tanguy, and others.
Exhibition - A Century of Surrealism

May 16, 2025 -
Jun 28, 2025

Press Release
Bona de Mandiargues

Alison Jacques, London

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.
Exhibition - Bona de Mandiargues

Mar 29, 2025 -
Jul 13, 2025

Press Release
Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

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.
Exhibition - Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds

Feb 26, 2025 -
Jul 20, 2025
Io Sono Leonor Fini

Palazzo Reale, Milan

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.
Exhibition - Io Sono Leonor Fini

Feb 02, 2025 -
Aug 10, 2025
Surrealism: A Collective Dream

Tampere Art Museum, Finland

~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.
Exhibition - Surrealism: A Collective Dream

Aug 25, 2024 -
Aug 25, 2025
Frida and Diego: Transforming Affections

Fundación Malba, Buenos Aires

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.
Exhibition - Frida and Diego: Transforming Affections

Feb 27, 2025 -
Sep 07, 2025
31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim

Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Centre, Portugal

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.
Exhibition - 31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim

Apr 17, 2025 -
Sep 28, 2025
Worlds of Wonder: The Surrealist Journey of Alan Glass

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

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.
Exhibition - Worlds of Wonder: The Surrealist Journey of Alan Glass

Feb 13, 2025 -
Sep 30, 2025
Max Ernst: Paris, 1922-1928

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain

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.
Exhibition - Max Ernst: Paris, 1922-1928

Apr 12, 2025 -
Oct 05, 2025
Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection

The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

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.
Exhibition - Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection

Jun 13, 2025 -
Oct 12, 2025
Rendezvous of Dreams: Surrealism and German Romanticism

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

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.
Exhibition - Rendezvous of Dreams: Surrealism and German Romanticism

Jun 13, 2025 -
Oct 19, 2025
Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

Tate Britain, London

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.
Exhibition - Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

Apr 09, 2024 -
Oct 31, 2025
Lise Deharme: la Femme Surréaliste

Musée de la Chalosse, Montfort-en-Chalosse, France

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.
Exhibition - Lise Deharme: la Femme Surréaliste

May 30, 2025 -
Nov 16, 2025
STRANGE!: Surrealisms 1950-1990 from the Collections of the Nationalgalerie

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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.
Exhibition - STRANGE!: Surrealisms 1950-1990 from the Collections of the Nationalgalerie

Sep 13, 2025 -
Jan 11, 2026
Drawing the Surreal

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

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.
Exhibition - Drawing the Surreal

Oct 26, 2024 -
Jan 11, 2026
The Subterranean Sky

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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.
Exhibition - The Subterranean Sky

Jul 12, 2025 -
Jan 11, 2026
Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery

Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine

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.
Exhibition - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery

Sep 24, 2025 -
Jan 19, 2026
Sixties Surreal

Whitney Museum, New York

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.
Exhibition - Sixties Surreal

Sep __, 2025 -
Jan __, 2026
Leonora Carrington

Palazzo Reale, Milan

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.
Exhibition - Leonora Carrington

Sep __, 2025 -
Jan __, 2026
Man Ray

Palazzo Reale, Milan

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.
Exhibition - Man Ray

Oct 02, 2025 -
Feb 15, 2026
Lee Miller

Tate Britain, London

~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.
Exhibition - Lee Miller

Nov 08, 2025 -
Feb 16, 2026
Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

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.
Exhibition - Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100

Nov 15, 2025 -
Feb 22, 2026
Magritte: La Ligne de vie

KMSKA, Antwerp, Belgium

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.
Exhibition - Magritte: La Ligne de vie

Oct 17, 2025 -
Mar 01, 2026
Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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.
Exhibition - Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism

Nov 08, 2025 -
Mar 16, 2026

Press Release
Raoul Hausmann: Vision. Provocation. Dada.

Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

A major retrospective, featuring around 200 works from national and international collections, explores this multifaceted and groundbreaking avant-gardist of classical modernism.
Exhibition - Raoul Hausmann: Vision. Provocation. Dada.

Nov 10, 2025 -
Mar 28, 2026

Press Release
Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream

Museum of Modern Art, New York

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.
Exhibition - Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream

Jan 18, 2026 -
May 17, 2026
Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas

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.
Exhibition - Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon

Jun 25, 2026 -
Jan 04, 2027
Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon

Tate Modern, London

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.
Exhibition - Frida Kahlo: The Making of an Icon

Rescheduled -
Dates TBA
Dali e la Moda

Palazzo Reale, Milan

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.
Exhibition - Dali e la Moda








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