THE SUBTERRANEAN SKY
SURREALISM IN THE MODERNA MUSEET COLLECTION
26.10 2024 – 11.1 2026
MODERNA MUSEET STOCKHOLM
THE COLLECTION
This year, 2024, marks one hundred years since the French poet and writer André Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto. “The Subterranean Sky” is a deep dive into Moderna Museet’s world-famous Surrealist collection. Follow the art and thoughts that inspired the Surrealism, and the influence the movement had throughout art history, into our own time.
The Evolution of Surrealism
In “The Subterranean Sky” the most important artists of classical Surrealism are featured, such as Claude Cahun, Wifredo Lam, René Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Toyen.
Swedish artists who had connections with Paris in the 1920s include Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, Eric Grate, Erik Olson and Anna Riwkin, among others. From later generations of artists, we meet, for example, Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, Jan Håfström, Graciela Iturbide, Robert Rauschenberg, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Dorothea Tanning as well as the conceptual art of the 1960s and the Fluxus movement.
Works created closest to our own time include Agnieszka Polska’s AI-generated video works, Tarik Kiswanson’s hypnotic sculptures, Thale Vangen’s organic objects and Fatima Moallim’s automatistic line drawings, among others.
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