# Barbara Kruger: The History of Tears

Barbara Kruger's installation at the Bourse de Commerce fills the Rotunda and its 24 display cases. It features large quotations from Orwell's *1984* and Aimé Césaire's *Notebook of a Return to the Native Land* on Tadao Ando's curved walls, light-box texts in the Passage vitrines and two videos. RSVP needed.

- Type: Museum
- When: on view October 7 – 25, 2026
- Where: Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Rotunda), 2 rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris, Les Halles
- Artists: Barbara Kruger
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)
- RSVP: https://www.pinaultcollection.com/fr/boursedecommerce/history-tears
- Event's own page: https://www.pinaultcollection.com/fr/boursedecommerce/history-tears
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/barbara-kruger-the-history-of-tears

## From the organiser

Installation by Barbara Kruger conceived for the Rotunda and the 24 display cases of the Bourse de Commerce: monumental quotations from Orwell's 1984 and Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land on Tadao Ando's curved walls, light-box injunctions in the Passage vitrines, and two video works. Shown alongside Remember Me on the same ticket. Closing date not yet announced.

## Also on Wednesday 7 October

- **Until Jan 18, 2027** · [Remember Me](https://artweekguide.com/events/remember-me) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Les Halles. A group exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce marking two hundred years of photography, drawn from the Pinault Collection. Around 700 works by more than 70 artists are arranged by the theme of memory rather than chronology. RSVP is needed.
- **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Sculpter la couleur – Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid](https://artweekguide.com/events/sculpter-la-couleur-masterpieces-from-the-museo-nacional-de-escultura-valladolid) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Hall Napoléon, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition at the Louvre's Hall Napoléon of seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome wood sculpture, lent by the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid. It includes a complete processional paso by Gregorio Fernández and shares a scenography with the Zurbarán retrospective. RSVP is needed.
- **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome](https://artweekguide.com/events/nan-goldin-stendhal-syndrome) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Auditorium), Les Halles. A slideshow by Nan Goldin, screened in the Auditorium of the Bourse de Commerce as part of *Remember Me*. It sets Renaissance, Baroque and classical masterpieces, photographed in major museums, beside portraits of her friends and lovers, and takes its inspiration from Ovid's *Metamorphoses*.
- **Until Nov 14** · [Being in the world: Marilou Bal, Ryu Ika, Emilie Pitoiset, Jiajia Zhang](https://artweekguide.com/events/being-in-the-world-marilou-bal-ryu-ika-emilie-pitoiset-jiajia-zhang) — Show at exo exo (Paris République), Canal Saint-Martin / 10e. A group exhibition at exo exo in the Canal Saint-Martin area, bringing together Marilou Bal, Ryu Ika, Emilie Pitoiset and Jiajia Zhang. The four artists look at identity as something performed, through self-images, borrowed languages and subcultures in physical and digital space. Part of Paris Art Week 2026.