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2024 Nuit Blanche
Reservations are now full. Tickets will be available at the door on the night of the event, subject to availability.
On the occasion of the Nuit Blanche, the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection will be open from 7:00 p.m. until midnight, free of charge, reservations required. This event celebrates contemporary creation in all its forms, and this year, it is highlighting France’s overseas territories in particular.
As part of its ongoing collaboration with the Church of Saint-Eustache, the Pinault Collection is featuring the French artist Pol Taburet, who will present one of his most recent paintings: My Eden’s Pool (2022). Hung in the Chapel of Saint Agnes in the Church of Saint-Eustache until June 18, this painting takes up the iconography of Christ carrying the cross. Pol Taburet brings to this image the perspective of a generation of young artists committed to the continued representation of black bodies. Against a flamboyant yellow background, Pol Taburet conjures the contorted body of a hybrid creature, as well as a disembodied head, which feels as if it had been ripped off – two ghostly presences, as disquieting as they are burlesque, that propose new narratives and testify to the artist's influences.
Free access to the museum and its exhibitions, upon reservation
Come discover the history and architecture of the Bourse de Commerce: viewed from the outside, the Bourse de Commerce traces a perfect circle that is unique in Paris’ cityscape, a true architectural outlier. Embark on an astonishing journey through the building’s five centuries of history and architectural transformations. Discover its large, restored decors and preserved vestiges, which form a dialogue with the radical, meditative interventions of the contemporary architect Tadao Ando.
At the same time, visit the exhibition Le monde comme il va , which consists entirely of works from the Pinault Collection.
In borrowing its title from a philosophical tale by Voltaire, this show reveals the artists’ heightened awareness of the present. Two equally represented generations of artworks engage in a dialogue throughout the exhibition: those made in the 1980s and 90s, and those made starting in the 2000s. In the face of the world’s excesses and paradoxes, the turmoil of our time, and a feeling of losing our bearings, artists become prophets, visionaries, and philosophers who are at times cynical and ironic, and who are often poets and re-enchanters.
Exclusively as part of the programming for the 2024 Nuit Blanche, the Pinault Collection will screen the film Mangrovia in the Auditorium. Directed by the French multidisciplinary artist Low Jack and the Italian visual artist duo Invernomuto, this film takes place in Martinique, in the heart of the mangroves, a tropical forest lying between the earth and the sea. In this ecosystem, dancer and choreographer Rayna, a leading figure of the dancehall movement in the French Antilles, executes a movement in a loop as an allegory of a mourning process.
The Programme
• Let’s talk about art!
Docents are present throughout your visit to answer your questions. They can offer perspectives and introductory explanations to help you approach the works and spot the building’s many subtle details.
• Family visits: “What a Circus! “ (30 min)
Explore the exhibition Le monde comme il va as a family! The works that you will discover play with the reality that surrounds us, and they transform the building of the Bourse de Commerce in the process. Everything morphs before our eyes: the artists represent circus or theatre characters who reinvent daily objects, test our sense of balance, and create brilliant head-turning works that make us lose all our bearings!
7:00 p.m. / 8:00 p.m., for children ages 6-12, accompanied by an adult. Visits begin in the Salon. Admission free, without reservations on a first-come, first-served basis.
• The Online App
Accessible via a QR Code, the Online App, free and without requiring a download, can accompany you throughout your visit, providing you with varied, complementary content. Let yourselves be guided by the voices of the artists and curators, and listen to the “People of the Bourse” sound bubbles to immerse yourself in five centuries of history at the Bourse de Commerce, located within the heart of Paris’ Les Halles district.
• A Shared Itinerary
The Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection and the Church of Saint-Eustache are offering a shared itinerary through both sites in the company of docents on the subject of the works by the artist Pol Taburet.