HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE: RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS. SURREALISM AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM

With RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS, the Hamburger Kunsthalle presents a comprehensive exhibition on international Surrealism to mark the 100th anniversary of the movement’s founding, exploring German Romanticism as one of Surrealism’s most important spiritual affinities. Starting with a pair of paintings presented for the first time at the Kunsthalle, over 230 Surrealist icons by major and emerging Surrealists such as Max Ernst, Meret Oppenheim, René Magritte, André Masson, Salvador Dalí, Dorothea Tanning, Paul Klee, Valentine Hugo, Victor Brauner, Toyen, and many others, presented in novel contexts and exciting juxtapositions, meet over 70 masterpieces of German Romanticism, including those by Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge, as well as Romantic poetry. 

After participating in exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, and Fundación Mapfre in Madrid, Ubu Gallery is happy to continue being part of this project. The exhibition at Hamburg’s Kunsthalle will run from June 12 to October 12, 2025. More details are available on their here.

A TALE OF A TUB: ANAGRAMMA TICS – ANNE KRUL with TABEA NIXDORFF and UNICA ZÜRN

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Rotterdam’s A Tale of a Tub. From the venue’s website: “Anagramma Tics: Anne Krul with Tabea Nixdorff and Unica Zürntakes the form of an unconventional retrospective, wherein the various facets and outputs of krul’s practice—anagram poetry, art making, education, organising, collaboration and intergenerational dialogue—will be on show for many to see for the very first time. To make this exhibition, krul has worked with artist and typographer Tabea Nixdorff, a pre-existing collaboration which has seen the pair produce new audio works while also translating krul’s anagram poems—a type of poetry made with the guiding principle that either each line or each verse is written with the same set of letters as all other lines or verses in the poem—into spatial installations and sculptures, building on their overlapping interests in poetry and found language, as well as the restrictions inherent to writing.

Joining krul and Nixdorff is Unica Zürn (1916–1970), an author and artist remembered for her works of anagram poetry and automatic drawing. A key component of the exhibition will be a reading space centred around an anagram poetry archive that krul has been building since the 1990s, within which Zürn acts as both a guiding inspiration and leading figure. To honour Zürn’s influence on krul, to ‘sit alongside each other’, as krul puts it, a collection of her publications and works on paper will be on display, evidencing the dialogical commitment inherent to krul’s practice: if it wasn’t for Zürn, she notes, she wouldn’t be making anagram poems.”

The exhibition is open from May 31 – August 24, 2025, and further information can be found on A Tale of a Tub’s website here.

Unica Zürn
Anagramm aus der zeile
[“Anagram from the Line”] 1967
Ink on board
12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (31.1 x 26 cm)
Signed, dated & inscribed on recto
(ZURN 148)

A TALE OF A TUB: <i>ANAGRAMMA TICS – ANNE KRUL with TABEA NIXDORFF and UNICA ZÜRN</i>

CENTRE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA: EN EL AIRE CONMOVIDO…

Ubu Gallery is pleased to be taking part in the traveling exhibition En el aire conmovido…. The exhibition’s second leg takes it to Barcelona’s Centre de Cultura Contemporània, where it will remain open from May 8 – September 28, 2025. The exhibition focuses on Federico García Lorca and his concept of duende, a state of heightened emotion, and showcases over 300 works that explore emotion in all its many forms. Further information about the exhibition can be found on the CCCB’s website here.

Hans Bellmer
Untitled
(Hands Triptych), 1933-34
Three (3) vintage gelatin silver prints
Each approximately 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (6.4 x 6.4 cm)
Facsimile signature blind stamp applied by artist’s estate
(BELL 457)

CENTRE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA: <i>EN EL AIRE CONMOVIDO…</i>

JUDIT REIGL: L’ENVOL. DESSINS ET PEINTURES (1954-2012)

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in the traveling exhibition at LAAC-Lieu d’Art et action contemporaine, Dunkerque Judit Reigl, l’envol. Dessins et peintures (1954-2012) celebrates the artist’s paintings and drawings. The exhibition continues until September 14, 2025.

Judit Reigl
Untitled
Precursor to Outburst series, 1955-57
November-December 1954
Ink on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
Signed & dated on recto
(REIG 61)

<i>JUDIT REIGL: L’ENVOL. DESSINS ET PEINTURES (1954-2012)</i>

Fundación MAPFRE:1924. Other Surrealisms

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Fundación MAPFRE: 1924. Other Surrealisms. Marking the centenary (1924) of André Breton’s publication of the “First Manifesto of Surrealism”, this exhibition proposes a threefold exploration: the critical reception of the Manifesto in Spain, the impact of the movement as a whole in our country, and the actual role that women (with the figure of Gala Dalí at the center) played in the group.
From this approach, the exhibition extends beyond the Spanish artists who were international protagonists of the movement, such as Dalí, Buñuel or Miró. The exhibition will be open from September 4, 2025 – May 11, 2025, and further information can be found here.

Unica Zürn
La Serpenta
[“The Serpent”] Paris, 1957
Oil on panel
19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches (49.8 x 49.8 cm) – image
25 x 24 3/8 inches (63.5 x 61.9 cm) – mount
Signed & dated on recto
(ZURN 121)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description A work with a pink background showing multiple patterned serpent or tentacle like shapes in colors of yellow, green, and orange. A light green one eyed creature appears in the lower right corner.

Selected Images From The Exhibition

JUDIT REIGL, L’ENVOL. DESSINS ET PEINTURES (1954-2012)

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. Judit Reigl, l’envol. Dessins et peintures (1954-2012) celebrates the artist’s paintings and drawings. The exhibition continues until February 23, 2025, and further information can be found here.

Judit Reigl
Untitled
Precursor to Outburst series 1955-57
November-December 1954
Signed & dated on recto
Ink on paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm)
(REIG 56)

Exhibition images courtesy of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.

<i>JUDIT REIGL, L’ENVOL. DESSINS ET PEINTURES (1954-2012)</i>

Selected Images From The Exhibition

CENTRE POMPIDOU: SURREALISM

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Centre Pompidou. Surrealism celebrates the 100 years of Surrealism since the publication of André Breton’s founding Manifesto in 1924, the original manuscript of which is displayed at the heart of the exhibition space. In addition, the exhibition features fourteen sections, both thematic and chronological, which evoke the various literary figures and poetic principles that were inspirational to the movement. The exhibition will be open from September 4, 2024-January 13, 2025, and further information can be found here.

Unica Zürn
Untitled
Île de Ré, 1963
Signed & dated on recto
Ink & gouache on paper
19 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches (50.2 x 65.4 cm)
(ZURN 98)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A work with delicate and flowing lines to create a monster like figure. The lines are dense and appear as if scales. The creature has a large eye and mouth, which is open, and its head curves to the right and downward. The creature is also slightly tinted pink.

ADLER BEATTY: MANIC PIXIE NIGHTMARE DRAWINGS

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new group exhibition at Adler Beatty. Manic Pixie Nightmare Drawings is curated by artist Sedrick Chisom and traces the dynamics between Surrealist and contemporary art, evoking dreams and delusions as they relate to the feminine form. The exhibition is slated to run until May 3, 2024 and features contributions from Ubu Gallery by the artists Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer. Further information can be found at Adler Beatty’s website here.

Unica Zürn
Untitled
ca. 1963
Ink on paper
19 3/4 x 25 5/8 inches (50.2 x 65.1 cm)
Signed on recto
(ZURN 96)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A drawing using thin delicate lines to create a scaled pattern, perhaps a reptile with several arm or finger like shapes that branch off from the main part of the work. The main or central part of the work has two eye like shapes, below which is what appears to be a mouth with jagged teeth.

CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF JULIEN LEVY: THE MAN, HIS GALLERY, HIS LEGACY AT SHEPHERD GALLERY

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Shepherd/ W & K Galleries. Celebrating the Publication of Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy focuses on the famed art dealer and his gallery, which was a important venue in the 1930s and 1940s for Surrealists, avant-garde artists, as well as American photographers. The exhibition opens on January 26 and continues until February 24, 2024. Further information can be found on the gallery’s website here.

Maurice Grosser
Untitled (still life with corn)
1940
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 18 1/8 inches (26 x 46 cm)
(MGRO 1)

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A painting of a corn cob on its side, with many kernels missing to show the reddish cob. Another cob, showing just the top half with missing kernels stands upright on the right side. The painting has a black background and an ornate brown wooden frame.

CASEY KAPLAN GALLERY: THIS ISN’T WHO IT WOULD BE, IF IT WASN’T WHO IT IS

Ubu Gallery is pleased to take part in a new exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery opening on January 12, 2024. THIS ISN’T WHO IT WOULD BE, IF IT WASN’T WHO IT IS features artists such as Claude Cahun, Andy Warhol, and Sol LeWitt, and discusses how artists encourage the viewer to interpret their work in a myriad of different ways. The exhibition is slated to continue until February 17, 2024, and further information can be found here.

Claude Cahun
Untitled
1936
Vintage gelatin silver print
4 5/8 x 5 3/4 inches (11.7 x 14.6 cm)
Dated on verso
(CAHU 29)

Installation view: This Isn’t Who It Would Be, If It Wasn’t Who It Is, Organized by Alex Glauber,
Casey Kaplan, New York, January 12 – February 17, 2024.
Courtesy of Casey Kaplan, New York.
Photo: Jason Wyche

This is a work of art. Please note that as it is impossible to know the intent of the artist, the work is subject to interpretation. Each visitor may view and choose to understand the work differently. All effort has been made to provide a purely visual description. A photograph of what might be a music or trinket box. The object is decorated with two figures of babies, one upright and one positioned as if falling off. The object has beaded decorations on top.

Selected Images From The Exhibition