Minimal
Until January 19, 2026, the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection celebrates the art of purity. With “Minimal”, the museum offers a journey to the heart of the simplest, most direct, and most essential forms. More than a hundred major works compose a path where emptiness is never absence, but breath.
Conceived by Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, the exhibition unfolds across seven sections: Light, Mono-ha, Balance, Surface, Grid, Monochrome, Materialism. Like stages of a visual meditation, it does not follow a chronology, but an inward movement—the gaze gradually sharpens, learning to see differently.
In Dan Flavin’s light, neon cuts through space and transforms it. In Agnes Martin’s work, pale lines and soft tones open an entire room to silence. Charlotte Posenenske introduces industrial modularity: her repeated, adjustable forms remind us that Minimal art was also a reflection on production, series, and democratic gesture.
Then come the materials, bare, direct, unadorned: wax, clay, salt, metal. In the Materialism section, the American artist Meg Webster engages nature in dialogue with sculpture. A perfect cone of salt, a beeswax wall, two clay hemispheres, a tiny garden… Her works, fragile and precise, evoke our connection to the Earth, caught between admiration and the desire for control.
The entire exhibition unfolds like a slow walk. Each room becomes a space for pause, listening, and balance. Minimalpresents not so much objects as moments—forms that invite us to slow down, to see what is essential, and to rediscover the beauty of less.
One leaves the Bourse de Commerce feeling serene, as after a deep breath. Amid the city’s bustle, these lines, materials, and silences linger within us like an echo: the echo of an art that seeks not to fill, but to reveal.
