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TO SHOE OR NOT TO SHOE. Warhol and others
Cabinet show on the women's shoe as fetish, projection surface and site of feminist critique: Andy Warhol's shoe prints alongside Birgit Jürgenssen, Gudrun Kampl and Sylvie Fleury.
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Preview: written before the show opened
In 1955 Andy Warhol was hired to draw a shoe advertisement for The New York Times, week after week. The job produced more than a dozen drawings, and the poet Ralph Pomeroy added witty literary allusions to them. Warhol later gathered the set into a portfolio called À la recherche du Shoe perdu, a pun on Proust.
That series is the centre of this cabinet show, which treats the women's shoe as a fetish object, a surface for projection and a target of feminist critique. Birgit Jürgenssen, Gudrun Kampl and Lena Henke hang alongside Warhol, and the list runs on to Mona Hatoum, Sylvie Fleury, Erwin Wurm and Sue Williams. Warhol drew a fresh shoe every week for money; the Zalando returns pile by your front door in Vienna is the 2026 version of the same habit.
It opens on 21 October and runs to 18 April 2027. Admission is €12 and covers the whole museum. On Thursdays the building stays open until 21:00, and it is closed on Tuesdays.
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Andy Warhol's 1950s shoe prints, from his years as a commercial illustrator, hang beside Birgit Jürgenssen, Gudrun Kampl and Lena Henke, who treat the women's shoe as fetish and target of feminist critique. A cabinet-sized show.
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Warhol's À la recherche du Shoe perdu, 1955
The shoe drawings Warhol made for weekly New York Times advertisements, with Ralph Pomeroy's literary captions.
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- Evening Visits
- Rainy Days
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Under-19s are free with the museum's standard admission rules.
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- TO SHOE OR NOT TO SHOE. Warhol and othersHeidi Horten Collection
- Otto Meets AlbertinaCourtesy of Albertina
- Picasso - Bacon: What It Feels Like to Be Human© Succession Picasso / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026, © Foto: bpk/Nationalgalerie, SMB, Museum Berggruen/ Jens Ziehe
- Her Story: Women Artists of the AlbertinaCourtesy of Albertina
- AlbertinaC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Theatermuseum (Palais Lobkowitz)Gryffindor / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5
- State Hall of the Austrian National Library (Prunksaal)Mirej / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
- Weltmuseum WienThomas Ledl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0