Bourse de Commerce 2026: Barbara Kruger Wraps Rotunda

American artist Barbara Kruger has transformed the interior of the concrete rotunda at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris with a sweeping installation of monumental text. Her signature typographic style covers the curved walls, floor, and twenty-four display cases along the surrounding passage, engaging visitors with powerful social and political commentary rendered in bold red and white letters.

Titled Remember Me, the surrounding exhibition borrows its name from Kruger and is curated by Matthieu Humery in collaboration with Lola Regard. The title originates from Untitled (Remember me), a 1988 artwork that Kruger rebuilt as an LED panel in 2020. Accompanying the central text installation are roughly 700 photographs contributed by more than 80 artists throughout the building.

The centerpiece relies on Tadao Ando's architectural intervention within the former grain exchange, consisting of a single concrete cylinder measuring thirty meters across and nine meters high that stands independently from the historic walls. Kruger treats the inner surface as an open page, featuring two enormous white ellipses in French and English respectively, each introduced by a single red word, TOI and YOU, framed by italicized condensed lines curving along the architecture.

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"It’s a crying body lost amidst the wreckage of the battles for money, land, love and other bodies."

Barbara Kruger

Additionally, Power, Pleasure, Desire, Disgust, a two-video piece created in 1996, has been reintegrated into the rotunda space, accompanied by an alternating band of black and white lines spanning the circumference in French to detail the artwork's core themes. The twenty-four display cases in the corridor have likewise been converted into lightboxes that flood the surrounding space with striking injunctions penned by the artist.