Meret Oppenheim’s oeuvre encompasses a timespan of over five decades. In addition to objects, her lifework includes paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics. She designed and created jewellery, fashion, and furniture design, and wrote poetry.

The exhibition is composed of around 200 works. In addition to work by Oppenheim, the exhibition features work from her contemporaries like Man Ray (1890-1976) and Daniel Spoerri (b. 1930), as well as photographs and portraits of Oppenheim herself.

The starting point for the exhibition architecture is in Surrealist thinking: the mind is portrayed as a house with different rooms. A cabinet of curiosities, a boudoir, a dream space, and a mirror hall open up the oeuvre of Oppenheim through distinct elements and atmospheres. The exhibits are on loan from various private and public collections in Europe.

Curating: Thomas Levy & Tiina Penttilä
Exhibition architect: Teppo Järvinen
Graphic design: Milla Rissanen
Project management: Pilvi Kalhama & Hanna Mamia-Walther