Retrospective
The SCHIRN is dedicating the world’s first comprehensive solo exhibition to the pioneer of the Dada movement, Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963). The retrospective shows her multifaceted oeuvre as an artist whose work extended over a period of fifty years and who contributed to the development of Dadaism during the 1910s and 1920s.
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About 80 works from 50 years of artistic creation are on display
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Among them are experimental collages, figurative depictions, abstract paintings, as well as historical photographs and archival discoveries
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Major international loans, including from MoMA in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris
- Photo: Norbert Miguletz
- Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective, 2025, exhibition view© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2025, photo: Norbert Miguletz
- Suzanne Duchamp, Multiplication Brisée et Rétablié (Broken and Restored Multiplication), 1918/19, Oil and silver paper on canvas, 61 × 50 cmbpk / The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY / © Suzanne Duchamp / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
- Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective, 2025, exhibition view autoportrait (1922)© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2025, photo: Norbert Miguletz
- Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective, 2025, exhibition view “DADA 1916-1923“ (1953)© Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2025, photo: Norbert Miguletz
- Photo: Norbert Miguletz
- Suzanne Duchamp, La Noce (The Wedding), 1924, Oil on canvas, 66 × 92.1 cmPrivate collection / © Suzanne Duchamp / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
- Photo: Tetyana Lux
Get in the mood and prepare
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Supported by
Dr. Marschner Stiftung
Ernst Max von Grunelius-Stiftung -
With additional support by
Fontana Stiftung
Georg und Franziska Speyer´sche Hochschulstiftung
SCHIRN LIGA -
Media partner
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung