Minimal

Exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris, 8 October 2025 – 19 January 2026

An artistic movement that emerged in the United States in the 1960s, minimal art is characterised by extreme simplicity, the rejection of illusionism and the use of geometric shapes and industrial materials. Reacting to abstract expressionism, it favours formal simplicity and economy of means, seeking to create a direct visual experience free of any symbolic interpretation. No longer mere spectators, the public is invited to appropriate the work and interact directly with it. The movement emerged simultaneously around the world in various forms specific to local contexts.

Based on a collection from the Pinault Collection and loans from the Dia Art Foundation and other private and public collections, this exhibition catalogue unveils more than a hundred major works illustrating the diversity of this movement since the 1960s. Following the seven thematic sections of the exhibition, it traces the diversity of the works brought together, from North America (Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, etc.), South America (Lygia Pape), Asia (Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga, Rasheed Araeen, etc.) and Europe (Günther Uecker, François Morellet, etc.).