Headless, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany
30th January - 5th July 2026
Headless brings together both new and earlier works highlighting a deep connection to the ideas of Surrealism. In an expansive installation, multidisciplinary works unfold like a dreamscape - shifting between video, artificial intelligence, sculpture, painting, and music. A world both strange and seductive emerges, inviting viewers into a maze of fractured realities and uncanny encounters.
The title of the exhibition Headless is borrowed from Max Ernst's first collage novel, La femme 100 têtes (The Hundred Headless Woman, 1929), whose influence resonates throughout the show. A new series of paintings, produced especially for the exhibition, takes direct inspiration from this book, in which Ernst composed a loose sequence of eerie images, often featuring his feathered alter ego, Loplop. This was used as a starting point to interweave past and present - bringing together current events, mythology, and alter egos to form new, hybrid narratives.
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