Surrealism aims to revolutionise the human experience. It balances a rational vision of life with one that asserts the power of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s artists find magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.
9 June 2026 • Lee Sharrock
Invasive Species at Hypha Studios brings together fifteen women artists exploring memory, sensory experience, psychological dissonance and transformation
15 May 2026 • Tabish Khan
The surreal, the spiritual and the stars.
5 May 2026 • Kate McIlwee
Paulo Nimer Pjota’s Encantados is an immersive world of folklore, surreal beauty and quiet darkness — where enchantment and unease sit side by side.
2 October 2025 • Jane Horowitz
What exactly is surrealism? That’s the inevitable question for visitors to the Whitney Museum’s Sixties Surreal.
4 August 2025 • mark westall
Pauline Karpidas belongs to the great 20th century tradition of the Grande Dame, collectors whose devoted patronage, indomitable spirits and… Read More
2 March 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Los Angeles — home to glass marvels perched by the Hollywood sign, sprawling estates in Beverly Hills, and, hidden within an otherwise unassuming duplex in the Valley, an otherworldly paroxysm of color and texture, paintings stacked around the foyer leading to Davood Roostaei’s studio.
30 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see in wider Venice to supplement his top 5 pavilions at the Venice Biennale… Read More
10 March 2022 • Mark Westall
On March 25th grab yourself a bottle of Absynthe or two and head down to Tate Modern for a night of Surrealist fun.
9 March 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Now ‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’ repeats the approach, but with 160 artists from around the world rather than concentrate on Surrealism’s Paris-based tradition.
17 March 2021 • Mark Westall
Whitechapel Gallery’s new archive exhibition, Phantoms of Surrealism, brings together artworks, photographic scrapbooks, press cuttings and original correspondence from the London International Surrealist Exhibition (1936), including a new scale model. Coinciding with Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, the show reveals the pivotal role of women as artists, behind-the-scenes organisers, editors and animators of the Surrealist movement in Britain.
3 March 2021 • Paul Carey-Kent
SOUTH SOUTH is an online community to bring together galleries with at least 40% of their artists coming from the ‘Global South’. Its lockdown-driven first commercial initiative with 50 galleries runs to March 7th.
8 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Art is a big part of our lives, and we all have certain aesthetics that we lean toward. But do you know your favorite style? With such a variety of styles available, you deserve to find the one that you enjoy most. Here are some different schools of art that you should explore to find your own preferences.
13 November 2019 • Irene Machetti
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert gallery are showing the first of a series of three exhibitions honouring Eduardo Paolozzi.
16 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
A mustachioed tiger, tied to a lamppost, heaven and hell, precarious sculpture, helmets, tarred toys and an immense painting.
2 June 2019 • Tabish Khan
Creepy children, camouflage onesies, colour, birds, photography, motherhood and protest.
22 May 2019 • Irene Machetti
ALMA ZEVI Projects presents Charlap Hyman & Herrero’s debut solo show Ouvrez-moi. Organized by Clara Zevi, it takes the spectators into a parallel mindset.
24 February 2019 • Irene Machetti
Emma Fineman solo show, REALMS OF THE (UN) REAL, to open at PUBLIC Gallery, 6th March. The exhibition explores the many facets of our ontological space, imagining them within an absence of temporal constraints.
