Showing Barbara Kruger: The History of Tears, at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

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Simulation of Barbara Kruger's installation in the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
Simulation of Barbara Kruger's installation in the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. Courtesy of the artist © Pierre-Maël Dalle.

Barbara KrugerThe History of Tears

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

Oct 7, 2026 – Jan 25, 2027 Les Halles

Monumental texts on the Rotunda walls, slogans in the Passage display cases and two videos, in a new installation by Barbara Kruger.

Made for the building, the installation covers Tadao Ando’s curved walls with quotations drawn from George Orwell’s 1984 and Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, while the 24 display cases become lightboxes carrying Kruger’s own commands. Two videos, among them Power, Pleasure, Desire, Disgust, first shown in 1996 at the Wexner Center, are reinstalled within it.

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