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.

Drawn exclusively from the Museum collection, this exhibition endeavors to look beyond typical art historical boundaries and to begin to lay claim to a more holistic and complex view of art history -- one that includes parties left out because of aesthetic biases based on a system of privileged white male patrimony.

Curated by Laura Smith.
The largest exhibition of Agar's work to date, bringing together over 100 paintings, collages, photographs, assemblages and archive material, much of which has been rarely exhibited, to chart the development of her uniquely spirited style.

Organized by Evelyn Hankins.
Exhibition celebrating the recent gift of more than fifty major historical artworks, including over thirty-five seminal works by Marcel Duchamp, promised to the Hirshhorn by Washington, DC, collectors Barbara and Aaron Levine.

Exploring the idea of the unconscious and focusing on the relationship between Surrealism and some of the most important Symbolist artists, including Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch and Auguste Rodin.

The first museum exhibition to broadly examine the relationship between American artists and the supernatural, featuring well-known artists together with many who have been overlooked, this exhibition is interdisciplinary, multicultural, and multimedia.

Curated by Fabrice Hergott.
~70 masterpieces by significant artists illustrating the history of the MAM collection, organized chronologically over three successive sections. The exhibition begins with Fauvism and Cubism; followed by the generation of international artists who gave birth to the School of Paris during the interwar period; and finally a presentation of artists involved with Surrealism, led by the poet André Breton since its founding in 1924 in its historical home of Paris.

During her twenty years in France, Tanning, a cherished friend of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, produced more than one hundred prints, ensuring that she always worked with extremely skillful, renowned printers. This selling exhibition presents graphic works spanning the artist's career.

Exquisite collages in a selling exhibition by this French Surrealist.

Curated by Eva Meyer-Zerbib.
This exhibition reimagines Man Ray's exhibition at Cahiers d'Art in 1935.

Curated by Jaime Brihuega.
Comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the momentous first and only meeting between Dali and Freud in London in Autumn 1938, showing the influence of the psychoanalyst on Dali's work.

Curated by Marion Meyer.
Over 250 works, spanning a variety of mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, jewelry and documentation, and demonstrating Man Ray's ode to his muses as important figures in his oeuvre.

This exhibition will predominantly comprise Pailthorpe's late, incredibly vibrant watercolours, completed in the 1960s which explore her fascination with the subconscious, automatism and 'Psycho-morphology'.

Curated by Dr. Annabelle Görgen-Lammers, Annie Le Brun, Dr. Anna Pravdova.
The greatest Czech artist of the 20th century, though still all-too underrated, in the final leg of her three-venue retrospective.

The art of this great draftsman, illustrator and author appears more current today than ever before: for it was violence, wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters, the manipulation of the masses and other abysses of human existence that pervaded his highly narrational works. The oeuvre of this fantastical creator confronts us with pessimistic visions which - to quote Schopenhauer - delineate "the worst of all possible worlds".

Tracing Surrealism's impact and legacy from the 1920s to the late 1970s in places as diverse as Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Syria, Thailand, and Turkey.

Curated by Silvia Mazzucchelli.
Photographs and books by Surrealist artist and writer Claude Cahun accompanied by a publication with texts by curators and researchers.

The first int'l survey in over two decades of the work of this Hamburg-born photographer, spanning his entire career, from Surrealist works before 1945 in which he endeavoured to capture enigmatic and ambiguous aspects of reality, to his visions of life in antiquity and extensive pictorial accounts of non-European cultures, all the way to the male nudes with which List avowed his own homosexuality.

Curated by Nina Zimmer (Bern), Natalie Dupêcher (Houston), and Anne Umland (New York).
The first major transatlantic retrospective for this most important Swiss artist of the 20th century, comprehensively presenting all phases of her work, including objects, paintings, drawings, sculpture commissions, and poems.

Curated by Grazina Subelyte (Venice) & Daniel Zamani (Potsdam).
This exhibition explores the myriad ways in which magic and the occult informed the development of Surrealism, with ~90 works by over 20 artists, including Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, Roberto Matta, Roland Penrose, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo et al.

Curated by Efrat Aharon.
This exhibition will focus on the IMJ's monumental masterpiece The Castle of the Pyrenees, revealing the fascinating story behind its creation, as documented in the extensive correspondence between Magritte and his longtime friend and lawyer, Harry Torczyner, who commissioned the work.

Curated by Monika Pessler and Daniela Finzi.
~100 works from the fields of painting, photography, and literature explore the tense relationship between psychoanalysis and surrealism with artists including Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Conroy Maddox, Andre Masson, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Savinio, Toyen (Marie Cermínová), Dorothea Tanning, among many others.

Art has access to worlds beyond the one we know. The supernatural has captivated artists from ancient spiritual myths and rites to the most popular fantasies of today. This exhibition summons a celestial realm of demons, ghosts and extra-sensory phenomena created by a host of artists spanning Old Masters, the Surrealists, photographers who specialize in the occult, and contemporary artists.

Curated by Cecilia Alemani.
213 artists from 58 countries in this ambitious exhibition whose fulcrum is a gallery on the lower level of the Central Pavilion which features a collection of artworks by women artists of the historical avant-garde movements, including, among others, Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Claude Cahun, Leonor Fini, Ithell Colquhoun, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo.

Curated by Martina Mazzotta and Jürgen Pech.
The first Ernst retrospective in Italy, with over 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, books, jewelry, etc., sourced worldwide from foundations, private collections and museums.