Minimal - Collection Pinault, Bourse de Commerce

Catalogue of the Minimal exhibition, presented at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris (8 October 2025 - 19 January 2026).

Minimal art is a movement that, since the early 1960s, has radically reconsidered the status of the work of art.

Characterised by an economy of means, a refined aesthetic and a reconsideration of the location of the work in relation to the viewer, a whole generation of artists around the world initiated this approach, inviting physical interaction.

This gave rise to “minimalism”, an art form that sought to address the viewer directly through the presentation of universal materials and forms, without resorting to imitation, symbolism or narration.

These artists used natural or artificial materials, often the simplest and most readily available, to create situations that directly engaged the visitor's body, while also drawing attention to the exhibition space itself. The work was no longer defined by its content, but rather by the real experience it offered.

In the United States, artists such as Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Ryman and Senga Nengudi moved away from traditional techniques in favour of a more material approach. This movement appeared simultaneously around the world in various forms specific to local contexts, well beyond the United States, with, for example, the artists of the Mono-ha movement (On Kawara, Nobuo Sekine and Lee Ufan) in Japan, the Neo-Concretists in Brazil, the Arte Povera movement in Italy and the ZERO movement in Germany with Gunther Uecker, Charlotte Posenenske and Blinky Palermo.

The 120 or so works reproduced in the catalogue are accompanied by notes and focus sections, introduced by an essay by the exhibition curator, Jessica Morgan.