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Marianna Simnett – Headless

January 31st – July 5th 2026

Marianna Simnett’s solo exhibition Headless (January 31st – July 5th 2026) at the Max Ernst Museum brings together both new and earlier works by the artist, highlighting her deep connection to the ideas of Surrealism. In an expansive installation, her multidisciplinary practice unfolds 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. Marianna Simnett uses this as a starting point to interweave past and present – bringing together current events, mythology, and her own alter egos to form new, hybrid narratives.