Dali magritte man ray and surrealism

March 22nd – July 30th, 2023

180 works – including paintings, sculptures, drawings, documents, and artifacts, all from the collection of one of the leading museums in the Netherlands – and their dialogue with some masterpieces from the Permanent Collection.
The exhibition is curated by art historian Els Hoek, a curator of the museum, with the collaboration of Alessandro Nigro, professor of History of Art and Art Criticism at the University of Florence, who was assigned the specific task of focusing on the complex, yet refined relationship between Surrealism and non-Western cultures.

This reminds us once again that the venue of a Museum of Cultures such as Mudec lends itself perfectly, as a genius loci, to the development of the artistic dialogues between different cultures. And this exhibition is, indeed, the outcome of a research project regarding a very stimulating artistic ‘syncretism’ that characterized the 1920s and 1930s, in Europe but also elsewhere.

Besides this focus, the exhibition explores the fundamental themes of Surrealist research: dreams and reality, the psyche, love and desire, a new type of beauty. Through the works of lesser-known Surrealists, publications, and historical documents, the exhibition provides visitors with a 360-degree view of the Surrealist universe.