Meret Oppenheim: Transatlantic retrospective beyond the surrealist horizon

Meret Oppenheim. My Exhibition – the life's work of Meret Oppenheim, one of the most important Swiss artists of the 20th century and representative of Surrealism, will be the focus of the Bern Art Museum from October 22, 2021. The transatlantic touring exhibition resulted from a cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as the Menil Collection in Houston, where the retrospective will also be on view - Bern thus represents the only stop in Europe.

A highlight of the exhibition is the illumination of her postwar works, which have received less attention to date, exploring her entertaining orientation towards Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Arte Povera, or Postmodernism. The exhibits also include 200 key works on paper as well as objects, sculptures and paintings from a total of five decades. In Bern, the exhibition can be visited until February 13 2022. The exhibition opening at the Museum of Modern Art of Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition will be exactly one year later. Those who would like to pay even more attention to Oppenheim's works on paper can visit the complementary event Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985): Works on Paper in Solothurn, 40 km away, starting on October 23, 2021.