Alles surreal?!
In the organizer's words:
Surrealism is considered one of the most influential intellectual and artistic movements of the 20th century. The exhibition "Everything surreal? Photography in the Cosmos of Surrealism" places the medium of photography in a dialog with paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects and film excerpts and, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of photography, pays tribute for the first time on this scale to its special significance for the artists of this formative art movement.
Founded by André Breton in Paris in 1924, surrealist tendencies, starting in literature in the mid-1920s, also encompassed painting and sculpture and also brought about a new aesthetic in the still young media of film and photography. Using unusual perspectives and experimental techniques such as solarization, multiple exposures, montages and collages, surrealist photographers began to explore the limits of the medium anew and upset previous viewing habits. Shocked by the senselessness of the First World War and influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud, their works radically transcend the levels of reason and logic and allow the associative and dreamlike to come to the fore. The human body, which is dissected and alienated in order to come closer to a supposed reality, is always at the center. With their staged realities, the Surrealists dared to create an alternative concept to the world view of bourgeois society with its perceived mendacious moral concepts, thus making a significant contribution to modernism, the echoes of which are still omnipresent in advertising, film and art today.
In addition to around 250 photographs from Dietmar Siegert's collection, which was acquired in summer 2025 with funds from the Museumsstiftung Baden-Württemberg, the exhibition shows more than 40 paintings, sculptures, objects and works on paper from the museum's own holdings as well as high-quality loans from international museums and private collections. An accompanying scholarly catalog with an inventory of Surrealist photography in the Staatsgalerie's collection will be published.
The exhibition is under the patronage of the French Ambassador to Germany, H.E. François Delattre.
Illustration: Philippe Halsman, Dalí Atomicus, ca. 1948, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, acquired in 2025 with funds from the Museumsstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Dietmar Siegert Collection, © Philippe Halsman Estate 2026, Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
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Regular / Reduced 9,50€ / 7,50€ without collection 10 € / 8 € incl. collection
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