SpallArt Collection - Surrealismus. Welten im Dialog

Exhibition

Surrealismus. Welten im Dialog

August 31, 2024 to January 5, 2025
Kunsthalle Vogelmann

On loan

Surrealism revolutionised art from the 1920‘s onwards with fantastic, radically subjective motifs. With over 100 works, the exhibition invites to immerse in this fascinating art movement. As the first avant-garde movement, it was equally dedicated to all media – paintings, graphics and objects, photographs and films show the enormous diversity of surrealist art. In the exhibition Surrealists from the very beginning meet contemporary positions.

Inspired by Sigmund Freud‘s psychoanalysis, the surrealists devoted themselves to the unconscious and the irrational. Artists such as Max Ernst, René Magritte and Joan Miró created bizarre worlds beyond reality in their works. Monstrous hybrid creatures, dreamscapes and bizarre objects were intended to challenge our perception and steer our thinking in new directions. The juxtaposition with contemporary positions makes it clear that surrealism is not a closed historical movement – it continues to have an impact today. Now as then, artists are searching for a new view of the world in the face of global crises as well as political and social upheaval.

An exciting selection of works from the SpallArt collection is on display: a portfolio of photo collages from 1929 to 1936 by the Linz artist Herbert Bayer, a photograph of the Paris metro railings from 1933 by Brassaï and a video installation by Tony Oursler.