Surrealism: the exceptional exhibition celebrating 100 years of the movement at the Center Pompidou

Lighting 100 candles on a cake can take a long time. This is why the Centre Pompidou preferred to celebrate the 100 years of surrealism in another way. The Museum of Modern Art is organizing a large exposure around this mid-20th century movement, to be discovered from September 4, 2024 to January 13, 2025.

The exhibition Surrealism. The centenary exhibition (1924-1969) brings together numerous works created by the greatest artists representative of this movement. Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Dorothea Tanning, Tatsuo Ikeda, Giorgio de Chirico, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Helen Lundeberg, Joan Miro and many others find themselves in this artistic journey designed as a labyrinth, which houses in its heart the Manifest original ofAndré Breton, the founding text of surrealism. This exceptional document leaves the collections of the National Library of France for this unprecedented occasion.

Sculptures, paintings, photographs, drawings, films, poetry or literary documents: the Center Pompidou exhibition brings together surrealist works from all artistic disciplines, famous and emblematic creations of the period, as well as more confidential works.

The 14 chapters that punctuate this journey evoke theevolution of the movement in the different artistic circles, theinfluence major of the literature on pictorial art, the principles poetic which structure the surrealist imagination, but also the modern legacy left by surrealism in the art and societies of the 21st century.

At the center of all these conversations, we find André Breton’s Manifesto, a primordial document that we can admire and analyze at leisure, thanks to the multimedia devices installed around it. THE Centre Pompidou thus allows us to better understand the origin and meaning of this Manifesto, and of the artistic movement that it gave birth to.

At the start of the 2024 school year, come celebrate 100 years of surrealism at the Center Pompidou!