I SAW THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN WITH YOU
Female Surrealists from Eastern Europe

Cromwell Place
SW7 London
12 – 30 April, 2023

Curated by Anke Kempkes, European ArtEast Foundation unveils an exhibition presenting some of the most outstanding female Surrealists from Poland, former Czechoslovakia, and former Yugoslavia, most of whom are still largely unknown in the West.

Surrealism has been a contested movement in the Eastern European avant-gardes and evolved in highly original local varieties. Czechoslovakia had the strongest Surrealist artist group already fully formed in the interwar period, and in close alliance with the Parisian artists, the programmatic centre of the Surrealist movement.

The exhibition lineup includes Maria Anto*, Teresa Żarnower, Erna Rosenstein, Alina Szapocznikow, Zofia Rydet, Franciszka Themerson, Alicja and Bożena Wahl, Eva Kmentová, Toyen, Ljiljana Blazevska, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Stanislava Kovalcikova.

more information:
European Arteast Foundation website
Cromwell Place website

PRESS:

Karolina Rychter, Wyobraźnia bez granic: Wystawa europejskich surrealistek w Londynie, VOGUE Polska

Harriet Cooper, 26 unmissable new London exhibitions to book this spring, The Glossary Magazine

Aleksandra Mainka-Pawłowska, „I saw the other side of the sun with you”. The world’s first exhibition of female Surrealists from Eastern Europe, „Contemporary LYNX”

Lee Carter, What I Buy and Why: Polish Entrepreneur Artur Trawinski on Collecting Eastern European Art and Displaying It for Western Eyes, „artnet”

*Conservator’s care over the works of Maria Anto – Marlena Koczorowska