Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms
12 October 07 - 17 February 08
Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Bringing together works across a variety of media ‘Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms’ is an extraordinary exhibition that offers a glimpse into the artistic thinking of Pop Art’s seminal icon, Andy Warhol (1928-1987).

Everyone knows his Campbell soup cans, the colourful portraits of Marilyn Monroe and a score of other celebrities. But there’s always something new to discover in the work of the artist who was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, and died on 22 February 1987 in New York. The first Andy Warhol retrospective in the Netherlands took place at the Stedelijk Museum in 1968. The Stedelijk Museum CS will be presenting a major survey of Warhol’s work: ‘Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms’.

Warhol is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century who reproduced ‘popular’ symbols from everyday life. He is the icon of Pop Art. But precisely how and why popular culture - which grew exponentially during his lifetime - held such a fascination for Warhol is harder to define. In its diversity, the exhibition ‘Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms’, gives us a fresh look at Warhol’s view of the world. He not only created portraits of objects from everyday life, but was also the first ‘voyeur of our media age’.

Now, twenty years after his death, we can ask why Warhol was and is so important, and explore his artistic legacy. Warhol’s extensive multi-media approach for instance is relatively unknown, although it was instrumental in his entire oeuvre. Warhol began making film, video and sound documents of his immediate surroundings and a society in flux in the nineteen-sixties. This material is at the heart of ‘Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms’.

Warhol’s world famous films will be presented in a specially designed exhibition architecture, and will act as ‘moving paintings’. But the exhibition also features Warhol’s paintings, screen prints and spectacular spatial installations like Silver Clouds. An intoxicating total experience in the spirit of Warhol awaits the visitor.

Guest curator
The exhibition was curated by guest curator Eva Meyer-Hermann.

Catalogue
The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue that not only acts as an introduction to the exhibition, but also offers fascinating background information.

Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh
The exhibition is organized by the Stedelijk Museum in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, one of Pittsburgh’s four Carnegie museums.