published: 2025-09-11

Warhol at Stary Browar (the Old Brewery)

Name: Warhol at Stary Browar (the Old Brewery)
Start: 2025-09-11

It had long been a dream. After the Björk Digital exhibition, a display of David LaChapelle's photographs, and an exhibition on the history of trainers held in collaboration with the Design Museum London, the Pop Culture Gallery now turns to Andy Warhol.

Black and white photo of a person in front of boxes of soap pads. The person is holding their hand to his or her ear. - grafika artykułu — photograph: Lasse Olsson

Black and white photo of a person in front of boxes of soap pads. The person is holding their hand to his or her ear.

The Old Brewery building at night, illuminated by purple light. Small groups of people in front of the building.

Their latest exhibition "Andy Warhol. A Kind of Retrospective" revolves around the fundamental questions of how the work of a single artist has seeped into so many aspects of contemporary life, and why his visions continue to resonate so powerfully today? "Instagram, YouTube, reality shows, selfies, viral content, online tabloids and TMZ - the entire world now runs on the principles that Warhol observed and put in place decades ago," explains curator Wojtek Piotr Onak. "Seriality, the staging of everyday life, fluid media identities, the economy of recognisability - we've seen it all. Only back then it appeared in black-and-white Polaroids, in a thirteen-hour film with no plot, in a silkscreen smile artificially preserved in time. Contemporary pop culture is his creation, even if it doesn't know it," he remarks.

The exhibition will bring together original prints, Polaroids, films, sketches, vintage advertisements, and record and magazine covers designed by Warhol, including those made for "Interview". At its heart are large-scale video installations from the "Screen Tests" series of the 1960s loaned by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. These cinematic portraits capture the likes of Salvador Dalí and the model Nico, both frequent visitors to the artist's studio.

Written by the Editors

translation: Krzysztof Kotkowski

Andy Warhol. A Kind of Retrospective, Pop Culture Gallery, Stary Browar; opens 11 September at 7 pm; on view until 28 February 2026; tickets: PLN 20; free admission on the first Tuesday of each month

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Warhol at Stary Browar (the Old Brewery)