Collecting Surrealism

How Latin America Reimagined the Movement and the Market

Wednesday 26 November at 5pm GMT

  • Livestream

    session in English

  • Recordings

    with Spanish, Mandarin & Portuguese subtitles

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What you’ll learn

The fascinating story of Surrealist collectors

Discover how visionary figures like Peggy Guggenheim shaped the course of Surrealism, and how their passion defined what we know as modern art today.

How Latin America rewrote the movement

Discover how artists in Mexico and the Caribbean reimagined Surrealism through the lens of politics, spirituality, and migration, creating a unique version of the movement that continues to influence global art.

Why Surrealism is booming today

Understand the current market fascination: from Art Basel’s record-breaking results to the international success of artists like Hector Hyppolite and the Wifredo Lam retrospective at MoMA.

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LATIN AMERICAN SURREALISM

Dive deeper into the subject with the course

Latin American Surrealism

How Mexico & the Caribbean reimagined the movement

6-week course | Certified by the University |
in English with subtitles in Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese

Live lectures starting Tuesday, 17 February 2026

Lecturer Maria Clara Bernal: International authority on Surrealism, advisor for Surrealism Beyond Borders at Tate Modern.

Maria Clara Bernal

PhD, Associate professor at Los Andes University
About the lecturer

María Clara Bernal is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has been part of the Getty Research Institute’s research group on Surrealism in Latin America and currently leads the research group Migration and Displacement in Latin American and Caribbean Art at Universidad de los Andes. She is also Programme Chair of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS) and a member of the Scientific Committee at the Institut d’Études Avancées in Nantes, France.

Her publications include:

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