Exhibition

Surreal on Paper

Name: Surreal on Paper
Start: 2025-09-13
End: 2026-01-11

13 Sep 2025 - 11 Jan 2026

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

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Victor Brauner, "Anatomie du désir", 1936 © Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn

Salvador Dalí, André Masson, Meret Oppenheim, and many more. Discover more than 100 drawings by the most progressive surrealist artists.

Victor Brauner, "Anatomie du désir", 1936 © Adagp, Paris. Photo : Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. GrandPalaisRmn

From 13 September 2025 until 11 January 2026 SMK - the national gallery of Denmark - will open a major exhibition focusing on the surrealists’ use of drawing. The exhibition features over 100 drawings by artists including Salvador Dalí, André Masson, and Méret Oppenheim. The Centre Pompidou has loaned 75 of its finest Surrealist drawings, which will be shown alongside works from Danish and international collections, as well as from the Royal Collection of Prints and Drawings at SMK.

The Surrealist movement emerged in France in the 1920s as a reaction to the horrors of World War I. The Surrealists wanted to revolutionize society and drawing became one of their most important tools for unleashing boundless imagination. The exhibition offers insight into how the Surrealists used drawing to explore their artistic project—and to understand themselves, each other, and their time through playful experiments and collective creation processes.

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Surréalisme

DKK 130,00 / Concessions DKK 95,00

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