Current Exhibition
Andy Warhol - Portraying Power
June 13, 2025 to July 12, 2025
Galerie Andrea Caratsch is pleased to present an exhibition of silkscreen portraits by the American artist Andy Warhol to mark the opening of its new premises in Zurich. On display are images of personalities who stand for artistic, political, and socio-cultural power, but also for political activism, and as such played a central role in Warhol's immediate environment and his world of thought. We are confronted with portraits of admired artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Joseph Beuys or his art dealers such as Bruno Bischofberger and Thomas Amman and their American colleague Sidney Janis. These can be found side by side with symbols of the communist threat Mao and Lenin, the then American president Jimmy Carter and a large-format majestic portrait of Russel Means, the American Indian activist. There are also several iconic self-portraits by Warhol, in which he portrays himself as his equal and worthy of a portrait.
As Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik aptly puts it: “He was in constant complex tension with the people in his world, from rivals to patrons to dealers to leaders, and these tensions come clear in the portraits now assembled at the Galerie Andrea Caratsch. Growing up in homophobic Pittsburgh, Warhol began his life as a powerless waif. In maturity, his art saw him seeking power from others or asserting his own.”
