Andy Warhol’s exhibition “Serial Portraits” arrives at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo with free entry from October 2, 2025 through February 15, 2026.
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo is giving the city a clear look at the face of fame. Opening October 2, Andy Warhol: Serial Portraits lines up the artist’s most enduring subject, the portrait, and considers why repetition still hits.
The show is part of Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program, which sends works from Paris into new contexts around the world. Here, that mission reads clean and focused. The selection draws from the Fondation’s holdings and moves from the instantly familiar to the rarely seen.
Warhol’s Self-Portraits, dated 1977 to 1986, anchor the edit. The camera-ready Warhol turns his lens back on himself, repeating the image until the picture becomes idea. Around those works, faces of friends and icons surface, then resurface, with small shifts that change the charge. It is Warhol’s serial thinking at work. Copy, repeat, compare, question. What makes a face an image and an image a brand.
By setting the known next to the overlooked, the installation shows how Warhol used serial formats to challenge what a portrait is supposed to do. The subject is there, yet the self feels slippery. Fame is present, yet the distance between sitter and viewer widens. It is a cool puzzle, and it plays out across a tight, curated hang.
Admission is free. The exhibition runs from October 2, 2025 to February 15, 2026 at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, 7F, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan.
