With around 250,000 visitors, the special exhibition “Andy Warhol. Velvet Rage and Beauty” in the Neue Nationalgalerie on Sunday, October 6, 2024 ended as a huge success.
Due to great demand, the exhibition closed with a grand exhibition finale with extended opening hours and personal tours by director Klaus Biesenbach. The exhibition brought together over 300 works: paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs, Polaroids, films and collages in the upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie showed for the first time a new, more comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the artist Andy Warhol.
From his early drawings to the screen tests and films of the 1960s, the torso paintings of the 1970s, to his artistic collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, and countless photographs, the exhibition in the Neue explored National Gallery Warhol's view of physical beauty and weaknesses, fragility and strength as well as his own diversity and fluidity in the form of many of the artist's self-portraits. This extraordinary collection of works will then be returned to their lenders, mostly to the USA.
“Andy Warhol. Velvet Rage and Beauty” was curated by Klaus Biesenbach, director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, with Lisa Botti, co-curator. Curatorial assistant is Nikola Richolt.
A catalog for the exhibition has been published by Prestel Verlag. This is available in our shop.
The exhibition was made possible by the FRIENDS of the Nationalgalerie.
