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This year, 2024, marks one hundred years since the French poet and writer Andr茅 Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto. 鈥淭he Subterranean Sky鈥� is a deep dive into Moderna Museet鈥檚 world-famous Surrealist collection. Follow the art and thoughts that inspired the Surrealism, and the influence the movement had throughout art history, into our own time.

Surrealism is a revolutionary literary and artistic movement 鈥� not a particular style. It wants to free man from cultural and social limitations, and the individual鈥檚 subconscious is key to another, better world beyond restraining logic and reason.

鈥淭he Subterranean Sky 鈥� Surrealism in Moderna Museet鈥檚 Collection鈥� offers a journey through the ever-ongoing evolution of Surrealism. The exhibition includes nearly 200 works from the Moderna Museet Collection and around 30 loans from other art collections, libraries and archives, particularly focusing on film, literature and the performing arts.

Surrealism鈥檚 radical stance and hopeful force make it retain its relevance and continue to ramify through art history. The movement emerges in a turbulent, dynamic time that in many ways mirrors our own. 鈥� Lena Essling, curator.

Surrealism develops in parallel in a number of places in the world, in the wake of the horrors of the First and Second World Wars. Dreams, chance, desire, free association, occultism and psychoanalysis are some of the methods and phenomena connected to the current.

In the 1924 Manifesto the French poet and writer Andr茅 Breton (1896鈥�1966) defines the concept of Surrealism as how dream and life are brought together into a truer reality 鈥� in French, 鈥渟ur-realit茅.鈥�

Surrealism has predecessors among 16th-century masters 鈥� such as Giuseppe Arcimboldo and Hieronymus Bosch 鈥� as well as a close kinship with 1910s Dadaism. Andr茅 Breton and his activist circle in 1920s Paris articulated the movement鈥檚 cross-border ambitions, which then continue to develop.

In 鈥淭he Subterranean Sky鈥� the most important artists of classical Surrealism are featured, such as Claude Cahun, Wifredo Lam, Ren茅 Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Toyen.

Swedish artists who had connections with Paris in the 1920s include G枚sta Adrian-Nilsson, Eric Grate, Erik Olson and Anna Riwkin, among others. From later generations of artists, we meet, for example, Leonora Carrington, Maya Deren, Jan H氓fstr枚m, Graciela Iturbide, Robert Rauschenberg, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Dorothea Tanning as well as the conceptual art of the 1960s and the Fluxus movement.

Works created closest to our own time include Agnieszka Polska鈥檚 AI-generated video works, Tarik Kiswanson鈥檚 hypnotic sculptures, Thale Vangen鈥檚 organic objects and Fatima Moallim鈥檚 automatistic line drawings, among others.