EILEEN AGAR
‘IN THE VERY BOWELS OF CHANGES: SURREALISM AND ANTIFASCISM’, MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, WARSAW, POLAND: UNTIL 10 JANUARY 2027
26 JUNE 2026 – 10 JANUARY 2027
Eileen Agar, Aerial View, 1979. © Estate of Eileen Agar. Courtesy Alison Jacques.
Eileen Agar’s work is featured in In the Very Bowels of Changes: Surrealism and Antifascism at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, on view from 26 June 2026 until 10 January 2027.
Adapted from an exhibition first presented at Lenbachhaus, Munich, the show reconsiders Surrealism as an international movement shaped by political resistance, solidarity and social transformation. Bringing together painting, photography, collage, poetry and exhibition-making, it moves beyond Surrealism’s association with dreams and fantasy to foreground its sustained opposition to fascism, nationalism, colonialism and imperialism. The Warsaw presentation expands the Lenbachhaus exhibition through new research into Surrealism in Poland and wider Eastern Europe, with additional focus on Prague’s Surrealist circles, wartime and post-war migration, persecution and exile, and the history of the a.r. group collection at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.
Agar is shown alongside artists including Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Hannah Höch, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Toyen, Unica Zürn and others, positioning her practice within a broader international network of Surrealist artists whose work challenged dominant political and social structures.