Andy Warhol: From Line to Legend brings together drawings, record covers, films and posters tracing the artist's development—from his early years as a commercial illustrator to the screen prints that made him famous.
Some pieces are being shown in Poland for the first time.
Organisers describe the exhibition as tracing Warhol's journey from "a sensitive draftsman and illustrator" to one of the most recognisable artists of the 20th century, focusing on how he built his distinctive style and blurred the lines between art, advertising, fashion and mass culture.
Warhol, born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928, was the son of immigrants from the Carpatho-Rusyn minority who had emigrated from a village in what is now Slovakia.
He became one of the leading figures of pop art, a movement that drew on Hollywood films, advertising, product packaging and comic books.
His best-known works include the Campbell's Soup Cans, The Marilyn Diptych and Brillo Boxes.
He also designed album covers for The Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones, including the banana artwork for The Velvet Underground & Nico and the working zip on Sticky Fingers.
The show features more than 50 original drawings, silkscreens, Polaroids, films and posters, alongside early issues of Interview magazine and a large-scale reproduction of the artist's Cow Wallpaper, created with the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Warhol survived an assassination attempt in 1968 when he was shot by the writer Valerie Solanas at his studio, The Factory.
He died in 1987.
The exhibition runs until September 27 at the Palace of Fine Arts in Kraków.
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Source: PAP, palac-sztuki.krakow.pl