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 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.

Curated by Alix Agret and Dominique Païni.
This exhibition explores the extent and various forms of involvement of female artists and poets in the Surrealist movement, featuring almost 150 works by fifty of these women, including Claude Cahun, Toyen, Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Meret Oppenheim, and Leonora Carrington, and highlight other, less well-known, figures such as Marion Adnams, Ithell Colquhoun, Grace Pailthorpe, Jane Graverol, Suzanne Van Damme, Rita Kernn-Larsen, Franciska Clausen, Josette Exandier, and Yahne Le Toumelin.

Curated by Sandro Droschl.
This exhibition explores works from the 1950's thru the 1980's by Austria's group of Fantastic Realists and considers their original significance and their continuing relevance.

Curated by Jennifer R. Gross.
Over 80 paintings, drawings, and constructions in the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy, one of the more inscrutable artists and poets of the twentieth century.

Curated by Marie Canet, Emmanuelle Debur and Claire Jacquet.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of this institution which began its collection in 1982 with the acquisition of around thirty works by Molinier. Also including works by Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Clovis Trouille, Felix Labisse and many others.

Curated by Didier Ottinger and Marie Sarré.
Based on the Centre Pompidou collection and enriched with loans from the Shanghai Museum, this exhibition sheds new light on Surrealism, particularly on its abstract tendency and its previously unexplored dialogue with the East.

Curated by Blandine Chavanne. Scholarly Advisor: Jean-Jacques Lebel.
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.

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

Curated by Guillermo Solana.
~63 works from the museum's permanent collection as well as the private collections of various members of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family, revealing documented traces of the occult and divided into seven sections: Alchemy-Astrology-Demonology-Spiritism-Theosophy-Shamanism-Oneiromancy.

Curated by Julia Schuster and Dr. Erika Schuster.
Over 80 works, including lithographs, etchings, frottages, collages and sculptures spanning from the 1920s to the 1970s.

~20 mixed media artworks spanning the mid-20th and early 21st centuries, depicting how both artists innovate across media to further investigate their themes.

Curated by Martina Mazzotta and Jurgen Pech.
~120 works retracing the career of this ingenious artist and highlighting his close links with nature, games, magic, and freedom.

Curated by Peter Tush.
~100 rarely seen works on paper from The Dali Museum's permanent collection, spanning the entire length of his creative life, from 1916 through 1974, in a variety of media, including pencil, pen, charcoal, watercolor, gouache, and more.

Presenting a special collection of avant-garde and surrealist photographs dating from the 1920s, rediscovered thirty years ago amongst more than 150,000 press photos owned by the Flemish daily newspaper Vooruit, miraculously surviving the intervening years.

Curated by Isidro Hernandez.
Over 70 works by this key figure of the surrealist adventure in the 20th century, including many of his most prized works from the 1930s, exhibited alongside other surrealists including Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Andre Breton, Leonora Carrington, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Jacques Herold, Georges Hugnet, Marcel Jean, Wifredo Lam, Dora Maar, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Roberto Matta, Yves Tanguy, Remedios Varo, et al.

Curated by Kyllikki Zacharias.
To mark a generous gift, the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg's new collection presentation puts the spotlight on 30 works by Swiss Surrealist Max von Moos (1903-1979) as well as new acquisitions of others by Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Unica Zürn (1916-1970) and contemporary artist Fatos Irwen.

A corpus of works, plates and iconographies of an alchemical nature inherited from the 16th to the 19th century in this exhibition exploring the relationship between alchemy and the surrealist imagination with artists including Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jorge Camacho, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Hérold, Ghérasim Luca, Roberto Matta, Mimi Parent, Benjamin Péret, Jan Svankmajer, Eva Svankmajerova, Toyen, and many others.

Curated by Dr. Susan L. Aberth.

Curated by Robert Rocca and Pierre-Yves Butzbach.

The essential rayograms, solarizations, fashion photos, works executed under the patronage of the Viscount Charles de Noailles and his wife Marie-Laure de Noailles as well as portraits of surrealist and avant-garde artists.

Curated by Teresa Arcq and Caitlin Haskell.
~25 paintings from the height of her career in the 1950s and early 60s, plus drawings and archival materials in this first US solo museum exhibition since 2000, organised in partnership with the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

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 Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center.
Exploring a pair of terms devised by the pioneering art dealer Julien Levy, who championed photography as an art form from the 1930s onward, insisting that surrealism is not a movement or style but a point of view.

Curated by Peter Tush.
Highlighting Carrington's written work, time as a painter and personal life, this exhibition will include a display of the artist's books, photographs, digital versions of her paintings and a suite of etchings.

Coinciding with the arrival from Paris in Roxbury of sculptor Alexander Calder and his wife Louisa in 1933 and the political climate in Europe, transplanted Parisian artists transformed Connecticut into a Surrealist capital-in-exile...

Curated by Hélène Bouillon.
Over 250 works - sculptures, paintings and objets d'art, as well as films and music - ranging from Antiquity to the present day, offering a journey through time and space, retracing the history of the most famous of these animals through their legends, their powers and their habitats.

Curated by Westrey Page.
120 works ranging from classical painting and sculpture to elaborate installations, spanning the fantastical demons of the Renaissance admonishing sinful behaviour, to the landscapes of Romanticism steeped in ruin and shadows, to the suspenseful figures lurking in early 20th-century horror films.

A trove of masterpieces on loan from the (renovating) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen including works by Dali, Magritte, Ernst, Miro, Duchamp, Man Ray, Carrington, Delvaux, and many others.

Curated by Saskia van Kampen-Prein.
~100 historical magazines, vintage prints, films, archival materials and much more, including numerous previously unknown examples of Miller's work in the archives of dozens of magazines.

Curated by Dr. Nicole Fritz and Monika Pessler.
Tracing the reception of Freudian theories in art from the 20th century to the present day: from creative processes at the beginning of the last century that sought to materialize inner worlds to the existentialist approaches of the post-war period through to the conceptual art of the 1980s and feminist positions of postmodernism, which sometimes also critically reflect on the legacy of the thinker of psychoanalysis in the language of art.

Curated by Paul B. Franklin.
The centerpiece of this exhibition is the Box in a Valise (1935-41), a portable museum of 69 miniature replicas and reproductions of Duchamp's work, which Peggy Guggenheim acquired from the artist in 1941 along with major loans from Italian and American museums and several important private collections, including ~30 artworks from a private collection in Venice.

This exhibition focuses on the artistic relationship between the Surrealist Masson, born in 1896 in France, and Nay, born in Berlin in 1902, whose art would soon move away from figurative representation, becoming an icon of Modernist abstraction in post-war West Germany.

Curated by Dr. Rachel Silveri.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist movement, this exhibition features over 35 works by 26 artists, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Lee Krasner, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, and many others.