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 Eleanor Clayton.
Paintings, collage, works on paper, ceramics and sculpture by artists including Eileen Agar, John Banting, Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Max Ernst, Conroy Maddox, Henry Moore, Desmond Morris, Edith Rimmington, Roland Penrose, et al., highlighting key aspects of British Surrealism; the engagement with tumultuous political events, and fantastical visual explorations of subconscious desires.

Curated by Peter Tush.
Exploring the world of the most celebrated and idealistic of all surrealist poets, Paul Eluard, known as "the Poet of Freedom", in three sections: one exploring his transition from surrealist poet to communist poet, one focused on his love of poetry and the significant loves of his life, and a final section presenting several examples of his poetry from various periods of his career.

Curated by Tere Arcq, Sarah Fredholm (ARKEN), Carlos Martín, Stefan van Raay, Naja Rasmussen and Dorthe Juul Rugaard (ARKEN).
The first comprehensive presentation of Carrington's art in Scandinavia, featuring over 100 of her paintings, drawings, tapestries, sculptures and books alongside selected works created by some of the most important artists around her - from Spanish Remedios Varo to German Max Ernst.

Curated by Dr. Volker Adolphs.
Paintings, drawings, prints, and illustrated books by Ernst complemented by works by 25 other artists including Hans Arp, Joan Miro, Richard Oelze, Yves Tanguy, Wols and others in this examination of Ernst's oeuvre as a concept of an alternative history of nature in the context of the art of his time and the art created thereafter until today.

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.

Including never-before exhibited paintings, collages and drawings, this exhibition presents a "rediscovered" surrealist artist who was highly regarded during her lifetime, by both critics and the founders of surrealism, and a visionary force who changed the face of art history.

Nearly 400 artworks, documents and objects by ~50 artists and writers in this chronological journey from the beginning of the 1920s to the end of the 1960s investigating the histories and intersections of surrealism and art brut.

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 Jean-Jacques Lebel.
117 collaborative works from public and private collections, including Les Cadavres Exquis, and by artists, philosophers, writers, musicians, and filmmakers including Picasso/Picabia, Matta/Brauner, Beuys/Paik, Klein/Saint-Phalle, Burroughs/Gysin, among others.

Curated with Vitra Design Museum, this exhibition will explore design from the birth of surrealism in 1924 to the present, bringing together the best in surrealist design, from furniture, interior design, fashion, photography and world-renowned artworks to contemporary artists and designs.

Work spanning seven decades exploring themes of transformation, masquerade, and performance through paintings, sculpture, and works on paper sourced primarily from the artist's estate.

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.

Curated by Barbara Forest and Fabrice Flahutez.
Over 100 paintings, photographs, drawings, collages, prints, etc. spanning 1919 through the end of the 1960s and addressing changes of scale, text-image links, the notion of passage, transgression and authority, the connivance of the animal and human worlds as well as games, cards and chess. Also questioned are the figures of Alice as women artists have been able to apprehend her and the representations of women within the surrealist universe.

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 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.

~150 selected images of one of the most photographed artist personalities of the 20th century taken by, among others, Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Lebeck, Lee Miller, Irving Penn and Man Ray.

Curated by Dr. Hank Hine.
500 years of dream-inspired paintings from the 16th to 20th century, demonstrating how artists throughout time have depicted a profound yet common phenomenon of human experience - the dream.

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.

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.

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

Curated by Dr. Susan L. Aberth.