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 Jay A. Clarke and Jamie Vaught-Karasek.
Over 85 works on paper capturing the beauty and strangeness of a mysterious generation of Symbolist artists drawn from the AIC's rich and historic collection of drawings and prints.

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.

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.

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.

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.

~60 rayographs alongside 100 paintings, objects, prints, drawings, films, and photographs in the first exhibition to situate Man Ray's signature rayograph technique in relation to his larger body of work of the 1910s and 1920s.

~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.
This installation, accompanying the blockbuster Dreamworld exhibition, showcases works from the museum's permanent collection made by members of Julien Levy's extraordinary roster of artists, including Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Arshile Gorky, and Dorothea Tanning. The display also includes photographs from a trove of more than two thousand from Levy's personal collection.

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.

Curated by Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodríguez Roig from Fundació Joan Miró, in collaboration with Elsa Smithgall from The Phillips Collection.
Over 140 works from American and European collections, as well as from the Fundació Joan Miró's own collection, both by Miró and by a range of artists from various generations: Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Arshile Gorky, Alice Trumbull Mason, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, among many others.

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 others.

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.

Curated by Maudji Mendel of RAW (Rediscovering Art by Women).
A two-part exhibition dedicated to the work of overlooked women artists of the 20th century which traces more than a century of artistic engagements with eroticism by female and queer artists across painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture.

Artists include: Eileen Agar, Denise Bellon, Mimi Benoit Parent, Mary Beth Edelson, Ruth Francken, Aligne Gagnaire, Jane Graverol, Rose Mihman, Bona de Mandiargues, DaddyBears, Anna Sampson, Juliana Seraphim, Elsa Schiaparelli, Ebun Sodipo, Suzanne Van Damme, and others.

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.

Curated by Jasper Sharp.
This exhibition brings the artist's New York studio to the heart of Paris, transforming the storefront gallery at 9 rue de Castiglione into a meticulously staged tableau-part time capsule, part life-size shadow box-for the first solo presentation of Cornell's work in Paris in more than four decades.

A major retrospective, featuring around 200 works from national and international collections, explores this multifaceted and groundbreaking avant-gardist of classical modernism.

Curated by Matthew Gale.
Over 100 works from the Tate's collection tracing the global reach of surrealism through well-known concerns of the movement such as dreams and desire.

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.

A group exhibition with six internationally renowned artists, each having chosen works from the museum's world-class collection of Surrealist art to be shown in dialogue with their own work.

Curated by Dr. Emilie Bouvard and Dr. William Jeffett.
A collaboration between The Dalí Museum and Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris; this groundbreaking exhibition marks the first time these two iconic artists have been presented in a comparative setting in the United States. The exhibition features a rich selection of paintings, sculptures and archival materials by Giacometti, drawn from the collections of Fondation Giacometti, displayed alongside works by Salvador Dalí from The Dalí Museum's collection.

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.

Curated by Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo, with Alexandra "Lo" Drexelius.
First of three venues featuring some 300 artworks in the first retrospective of the artist's work in the United States since 1973.

Organized in collaboration with the Tate, this exhibition focuses on the long trajectory and broad int'l reach of surrealism as a state of mind through a captivating selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and other art objects, as well as publications and archival material.

Organized by Grazina Subelyte, Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and guest curator Simon Grant.
The first large-scale museum exhibition celebrating Peggy Guggenheim's years in the UK and her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune, active in London between 1938 and 1939.

Over 200 objects, including garments, accessories, jewelry, and archival materials in this examination of the pioneering 20th-century fashion designer, exploring her surrealist designs, collaborations with artists like Salvador Dalí and Jean Cocteau, and her impact on art, fashion, and performance.

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.

Curated by Matthew Affron and Danielle Cooke.
Second of three venues featuring some 300 artworks in the first retrospective of the artist's work in the United States since 1973.

In autumn 2026, the SCHIRN will present the first major exhibition on Leonor Fini in Germany. Around 150 works, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and objects, offer a comprehensive insight into the artist's fascinating oeuvre.

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.