The Croatian Museum of Tourism, in cooperation with the Infeld Collection from Vienna, presents the exhibition “POP ART – INFELD COLLECTION” at the “Juraj Šporer” Art Pavilion in Opatija. This extensive and highly valuable exhibition features forty-two original works by ten of the world’s most prominent representatives of American and European Pop Art, providing a comprehensive insight into the diverse approaches, poetics, and techniques of a movement that shaped the art scene and popular culture of the 20th century.

Featured Artists and Key Works

​The exhibition brings together works by ten leading artists of the movement:

Andy Warhol: The most prominent figure of the movement is represented by his famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Mao Zedong, as well as the iconic image of Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones’ LOVE YOU LIVE album cover — works that have become enduring symbols for generations, deeply embedded in our collective consciousness. Alongside his recognizable ventures into visual and music pop culture (such as covers for Diana Ross and Querelle), his oeuvre is defined by a fascination with celebrity culture, self-promotion, and the mystique of private life. Knowing many stars personally, Warhol portrays them in an intimate and direct way.

​Steve Kaufman: A former assistant to Andy Warhol at The Factory studio. Like his mentor, his creative process began with photographs that he compositionally processed and adapted before screenprinting, subsequently refining them with painterly interventions and intense layers of paint. Kaufman’s 2002 screenprint, based on a photo portrait of art collector Peter Infeld created for his 60th birthday, was selected as the visual identity of the exhibition.

​Mel Ramos: An American Pop Art master known for his figurative works and erotic nudes. In his depictions of commercial products and the female body (such as the famous California Venus, which appears across all phases of his career, and works like Martini Girl from 1995), Ramos succeeds in overcoming the cold association between women and commodities to create an atmosphere of warmth, closeness, and optimism.

​Kiki Kogelnik: The renowned Austrian artist who lived and worked in the USA alongside world-famous peers. Her works are playful and rich in color, yet intensely political and feminist-oriented. Her characters reveal the dual nature of Pop Art—connected to European artistic tradition and the ideal of beauty, yet simultaneously exposed to the distorting lens of the media.

​Roy Lichtenstein: An artist who introduced motifs of so-called “low art” into museum spaces, drawing inspiration from comic books as well as Abstract Expressionism and museum masterpieces by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

​James Rizzi: Recognizable for his unique and playful three-dimensional visual expression, represented in the exhibition by his 1999 work Blue Bird.

​Keith Haring, Allen Jones, Richard Lindner, and James Rosenquist: The exhibition also features works by these influential authors who, through their distinctive drawing style, sculptural approach, prints, and exploration of urban life, made an invaluable contribution to the development of the American and European Pop Art scene.

​About the Infeld Collection
The exhibited works constitute an exceptionally valuable and meticulously curated part of the prestigious Infeld Collection from Vienna, one of the largest private art collections in Austria. The collection was initiated in the mid-1960s by the Austrian musical string manufacturer (company Thomastik-Infeld GmbH), art collector, and patron Peter Infeld (1942–2009) and his mother Margaretha Infeld (1904–1994). Today, the collection continues to be developed with equal dedication and entrepreneurial vision by Zdenka Infeld.

​In addition to Pop Art, the focus of the Infeld Collection lies in works of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, Croatian Naive Art, Buddhist meditative paintings from Tibet (Thangka), and Art Brut, along with an extensive collection of musical instruments and vinyl records. To make artworks accessible to the general public, Peter Infeld opened representative cultural centers in Halbturn (Burgenland, Austria) and in Dobrinj on the island of Krk (Croatia), where more than 120 exhibitions have been held to date.

Opening hours: daily from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The exhibition will be open from August 1 to September 27, 2026.
Organizer: Croatian Museum of Tourism

Additional info: Hrvatski muzej turizma