Surrealism: The Centenary Exhibition – Centre Pompidou, France

Coming soon: “Surrealism” exhibition

September 4, 2024 – January 13, 2025

Gallery 1, level 6

Retracing more than forty years of exceptional creative effervescence, from 1924 to 1969, the “Surrealism” exhibition celebrates the anniversary of the movement born in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto. Both chronological and thematic, the journey is punctuated by 14 chapters evoking the literary figures who inspired the movement (Lautréamont, Lewis Carroll, Sade, etc.) and the poetic principles which structure its imagination (the artist-medium, the dream, the philosopher’s stone, the forest…)