Warsaw exhibition presents surrealism as anti-fascist art
Polish National Radio
June 2026
The At the Heart of Change: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism exhibition at the Polish capital’s Museum of Modern Art brings together works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Toyen, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, René Magritte and Remedios Varo. The show is an expanded version of an exhibition held at Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany from October 15, 2024, to March 30, 2025, under the title But Live Here? No Thanks. Surrealism + Anti-Fascism. It was put together in cooperation with Lenbachhaus and the Museum of Art in Łódź, central Poland. For the Warsaw show, curators Dorota Jarecka and Magda Lipska broadened the exhibition with research into Polish and East European surrealism. Paweł Polit, a curator at the Museum of Art in Łódź, authored a chapter on the collection of the a.r. group, a Polish avant-garde group that gathered works from leading surrealists for the Łódź museum, founded in 1931. […]