Andy Warhol — The American Myth at Landerneau

19h
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Location: Landerneau, France

Date: June 6, 2026 – January 24, 2027

Project: Warhol à Landerneau, more than 200 works from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, curated by Amber Morgan

Why it Matters: The first major Warhol retrospective in France in nearly a decade

The Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc has brought more than 200 Warhols to a former Capuchin convent in Brittany. The works come from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the largest museum in the world devoted to a single artist, and they cover the full arc: the early commercial drawings, the Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles, the Marilyns and Jackies, the dollar signs and the late self-portraits.

Amber Morgan, who runs collections at the Warhol Museum, has built the show around the American Dream. Warhol was Andrew Warhola, the son of immigrants from what is now Slovakia, who turned himself into the most famous artist of his century. His subjects are the things that stand in for America: the soup can, the soda bottle, the movie star, the dollar. Morgan reads them as a portrait of the country, and a wary one. The promise of fame and money for everyone is also a myth, and Warhol knew it.

There is an extra twist in the venue. The man who made art out of supermarket shelves is being shown by the cultural foundation of one of France's biggest supermarket families. Michel-Édouard Leclerc makes the point himself, only half joking that Warhol found his genius in the aisles.

Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup I: Cream of Mushroom, 1968, screen print on paper © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Adagp, Paris 2026

The timing helps. 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the United States and the centenary of Marilyn Monroe's birth, which makes a show about American icons land harder than usual.

More info: fonds-culturel-leclerc.fr

Photo: Views - Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la culture

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Visual Arts, Inc. / Adagp, Paris 2026.