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Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism

Max Ernst, Paintings for Young People, 1943.

Until Mar 1, 2026
Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin, Germany

It’s been just over 100 years since the publication of André Breton’s “First Surrealist Manifesto,” which kickstarted an artistic movement like no other. At Berline’s Neue Nationalgalerie, a museum that has been presenting cutting-edge historical explorations, this exhibition looks at the Surrealist artists who fled Nazi-dominated Europe and forged fruitful connections in other countries. As a result, Surrealism spread internationally. Building on the research of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, the exhibition highlights artists such as Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, and Max Ernst while tracing the different paths Surrealist artists took to escape persecution. Their choices and friendships kept the movement alive and thriving. —Maggie Turner

© Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Donation Collection Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch to the State of Berlin 2010, Photo: Jochen Littkemann, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025