Curated by Christophe Boulanger, Savine Faupin, Nicolas Surlapierre, and Lóránd Hegyi

“Hypnos” sets out to make visible what the curatorial team calls “the encounter between the unconscious and modernity” by presenting some 250 works by roughly 100 artists, writers, filmmakers, and psychoanalysts from across Europe who variously sought to analyze, depict, and actualize aspects of unconscious thought and experience during the first half of the twentieth century. “Hypnos” will include a wide-ranging selection of materials—from texts by psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi to Spiritualist photographs, Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s Dada puppets to Fritz Lang’s films—organized in thematic groupings with reference to events that took place in Central Europe between 1900, the first publication date of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, and 1949, which witnessed the division of Germany.

— Brigid Doherty