Dada • 1920 • V
After their rejection by the Cologne Spring Salon (despite its 'jury-free' policy), the Dadaists grouped in Cologne organise a Dada-Vorfrühling (Dada Early Spring) exhibition in April. Joined by Hans Arp and Francis Picabia, the exhibition takes place in the backyard of a building that can only be accessed through a men's lavatory. The exhibition is shut down by the police on charges of obscenity. In May, a poster exclaiming "Dada will win! ... Dada is for peace and order!" reopens the exhibition.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.