5 Pop Art Exhibitions to See During Summer 2023

Pop and Contemporary art exhibitions continue to amaze during the summer of 2023. Take the opportunity to spend a few hours in contact with the works of the trendiest artists on the art scene during your holiday.

Summer 2023: Exhibitions you absolutely must see!

This summer, make sure to attend art exhibitions featuring the works of the most influential artists on the international scene.

David LaChapelle: Fulmini

Salone degli Incanti, Trieste. Until 15 August 2023

David LaChapelle: Fulmini

Until 15 August in Trieste, it will be possible to admire David LaChapelle's exhibition Fulmini through which the artist retraces the most significant moments of his artistic career from the 1970s to today.

The Salone degli Incanti in Trieste will be the setting for more than 90 works by the artist, which will be divided into two sections: the first part will retrace the most flourishing moment of his career, namely the one at the turn of the new millennium, where show business personalities, actors, musicians, and international political figures are the protagonists of desecrating and ironic shots. 

On the other hand, the second section projects his work into a new, more intimate, and mystical dimension in which his impact on the art of the past and his search for himself in nature emerge.

The works on display will also include some from the collection of Galleria Deodato Arte.

Find out more about David LaChapelle's Fulmini exhibition

Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Mirror Rooms

Tate Modern, London. Until 28 April 2024

Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Mirror Rooms

We have seen her work become an exclusive capsule collection for Louis Vuitton and we will admire it in an exhibition in Brescia this winter, Yayoi Kusama's art never stops!

The Tate in London presents the rare opportunity to experience two Infinity Mirror Rooms in the exhibition Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Mirror Rooms until 28 April 2024.

These immersive installations will transport visitors into Kusama's unique vision of infinite reflections. Infinity Mirror Rooms consists of two rooms Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life and the Chandelier of Grief. The first is one of Kusama's largest installations and was created for her 2012 retrospective at the Tate Modern. The second is the Chandelier of Grief, a room that creates the illusion of a boundless universe of rotating crystal chandeliers.

A small presentation of photographs and moving images, some of which will be exhibited exclusively for the first time, provide historical context for the global phenomenon that Kusama's mirrored rooms have become today.

1001 Reasons to (dis)Obey - The Art of Shepard Fairey

Musée Guimet, Lyon. Until 9 July 2023

1001 Reasons to (dis)Obey - The Art of Shepard Fairey

The most significant Obey retrospective! This is how the exhibition 1001 Reasons to (dis)OBEY - The Art of Shepard Fairey visible until 9 July at the Musée Guimet in Lyon is described.

The exhibition traces the artistic career of Obey, born Shepard Fairey, through a collection of more than a thousand works including films, objects, and documents. Obey's art, together with that of Banksy, is considered of great importance for the artist's impact in the development of Street Art.

In fact, Obey already began using the stencil technique in his works in the 1980s.

"A novelty at a time when Street Art was mainly expressed through graffiti" - Jérôme Catz, artistic director of the Street Art Fest Grenoble-Alpes. 

The retrospective will look at Obey's early works, i.e. stickers, through to silkscreens as well as installations in metal, wood, and canvases. The exhibition will also emphasize the artist's political and social commitment through the exhibition of the Stop Racism posters from 1989 and the Islam Print series from 1998.

Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst. The Revolution in Printmaking

Albertina, Vienna. Until 23 July 2023

Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst. The Revolution in Printmaking

Until 13 July 2023, the Albertina Modern in Vienna will host an exhibition tracing the development and international trends in the art world's use of printed graphics from the time after World War II to the present day in the exhibition Andy Warhol to Damien Hirst. The Revolution in Printmaking.

The exhibition brings together American Pop Art and Minimal Art with works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein and German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, and others.

The selection includes a total of 70 works created with both traditional and contemporary approaches. The techniques of the works on display include woodcuts alongside innovative works that exploit the creative possibilities offered by new printing technologies.

Dalì, Magritte, Man Ray e il Surrealismo. Capolavori dal Museo Boijmans Van Beuningen

MUDEC - Museo delle Culture, Milan. Until 30 July 2023

Dalì, Magritte, Man Ray e il Surrealismo. Capolavori dal Museo Boijmans Van Beuningen

180 surrealist works will be the stars of the new exhibition at the MUDEC - Museo delle Culture in Milan entitled Dalì, Magritte, Man Ray and Surrealism. Capolavori dal Museo Boijmans Van Beuningen.

The Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has loaned some of its works to Mudec to allow a unique dialogue between the masterpieces housed in the Milan museum and those of the Dutch museum.

Paintings, sculptures, drawings and documents will trace the surrealist art of artists such as Salvador Dali, René Magritte and Man Ray. The exhibition aims to delve into psychoanalytic themes of the dream and the unconscious as well as understanding the creative process between collage, frottage, stream of consciousness and hallucinations, but also to strike the visitor with one of the cardinal principles of Surrealism, namely estrangement.