'Beyond Surrealism' featuring Laure Prouvost at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

8 July 2025

From 15 November – 6 April 2026, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents Beyond Surrealism, a group exhibition featuring Laure Prouvost. This exhibition will stimulate visitors’ urge to think critically about social issues and to look differently at the world around us.

Beyond Surrealism features artists: Kerstin Brätsch, Monster Chetwynd, Tai Shani, Emma Talbot and Raphaela Vogel. Each artist has chosen works from the museum’s collection to be shown in dialogue with their own work, and several have produced new works for the exhibition. The exhibition will surprise visitors by showing masterpieces from the museum’s collection in combination with contemporary art, encouraging visitors to think outside the box.

"In today’s uncertain and volatile world, many contemporary artists are inspired by Surrealism’s imaginative power and the desire for alternative realities, even if they do not call themselves Surrealists. The six artists in the exhibition use their imagination to address current social issues such as gender, identity, feminism and climate change and to offer fresh perspectives in a complex world in which natural disasters, war and inequality dominate the news." – Saskia van Kampen-Prein, curator of modern and contemporary art at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Find out more via Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Image: Laure Prouvost, We Will Keep Cool (Las Pozas), 2024, Tapestry, 210 x 254 x 0.9 cm, 82 5/8 x 100 x 0 3/8 in © Laure Prouvost, Courtesy Lisson Gallery