LANDERNEAU.- The Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture is presenting Warhol à Landerneau, a major retrospective devoted to Andy Warhol, from June 6, 2026 through January 24, 2027. Organized in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the exhibition brings together more than 200 works, including paintings, silkscreens, drawings, films and archival material.

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The exhibition marks the first major retrospective devoted to Warhol in France in nearly a decade. Curated by Amber Morgan, director of collections and exhibitions at The Andy Warhol Museum, the show looks beyond the artist’s familiar Pop Art image to examine his lifelong relationship with the American Dream, commercial culture, celebrity and myth.

Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh in 1928 to immigrant parents from the region now known as Slovakia, Warhol transformed himself from a successful commercial illustrator into one of the most recognizable artists of the 20th century. After studying pictorial design at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, he moved to New York, where he worked for fashion magazines, luxury brands, publishers and record companies before turning the language of advertising into the foundation of a radical artistic practice.

The exhibition follows that transformation through a sequence of thematic sections: From Andrew Warhola to Andy Warhol, Early Works, Advertising as Art, When Portraits Become Products, and The American Myth. Together, these chapters trace how Warhol built an artistic language out of repetition, mass media, consumer goods and the manufactured aura of fame.

Among the works featured are images that have become inseparable from Warhol’s name: Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, dollar signs and the Statue of Liberty. These familiar subjects are placed alongside drawings, photographs and archival materials that reveal the roots of his visual thinking, from early commercial assignments to the mechanical processes that later defined his fine art.





For Warhol, everyday objects were never simply ordinary. A soup can, a soda bottle or a supermarket package could become an emblem of desire, design and American identity. His art blurred distinctions between the department store and the museum, between product and portrait, between celebrity and commodity. In doing so, he helped turn Pop Art into one of the most accessible and influential movements of the postwar period.

The Landerneau exhibition also places Warhol’s work in a broader historical moment. The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States and the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, two milestones that echo throughout the show’s focus on American symbols, popular icons and the mythology of success.

Morgan’s curatorial approach presents Warhol as both a believer in and a skeptic of the American Dream. His images celebrate the seductive power of consumer culture, but they also expose its fragility. Fame, wealth, beauty and success appear in his work as bright, repeatable surfaces—instantly recognizable, yet unstable and sometimes hollow.

The exhibition gives particular attention to Warhol’s portraits. As his reputation grew, celebrities, collectors and public figures sought out his signature treatment. In Warhol’s hands, the portrait became less a private likeness than a public image: flattened, colored, repeated and made desirable. Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy and other cultural figures became part of a visual system in which identity itself could be reproduced like a product.

The project also highlights the importance of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the institution dedicated to preserving and presenting the artist’s legacy. Opened in 1994 in Warhol’s native city, the museum holds an extensive collection of his artworks, archives, films, photographs and personal objects.

An exhibition catalogue accompanies the show, gathering nearly 200 reproductions from Warhol’s career, from rarely seen drawings and photographs to iconic painted and silkscreened works. Edited by Amber Morgan, the publication includes new texts by artists, writers, curators and art historians offering multiple perspectives on Warhol, Pop Art and the construction of American cultural myths.

Warhol à Landerneau continues the Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture’s mission to make modern and contemporary art accessible to a wide public. Located in the former Capuchins convent in Landerneau, the institution has become an important cultural destination in western France, known for large-scale exhibitions that combine major loans, public mediation and educational programming.

With Warhol, FHEL turns its attention to an artist who made the supermarket shelf, the movie star and the advertisement into enduring subjects of art. More than three decades after his death, Warhol’s images remain startlingly current, reflecting a world still shaped by branding, celebrity, repetition and the promise—real or imagined—that anyone can become famous.