PARIS.- In 2026, Pinault Collection opens a new exhibition season that explores the ways in which artists reveal, transform, and disrupt our perception of the world. The programming in Paris and Venice composes a shared narrative of creation that addresses the tensions of the present, reinterprets visual legacies, and gives rise to forms that render tangible both the fractures and continuities of our era.

In Paris, the Bourse de Commerce’s exhibition "Clair-obscur" features a selection of modern and contemporary works from the Pinault Collection in which light clashes with the shadows of our world. In the autumn, for the first time ever, the museum is devoting a major exhibition entirely to photography, featuring emblematic images that trace two centuries of ways of looking at the world. The exhibition is being presented on the occasion of the bicentennial of the medium’s invention.

In Venice, a new configuration brings together four contemporary artists who have been invited to take over the two Venetian museums at the same time. The exhibitions by Michael Armitage and Amar Kanwar at Palazzo Grassi and Lorna Simpson and Paulo Nazareth at the Punta della Dogana offer singular visions that, each in their own way, grapple with personal and collective histories and memories, all the while suggesting resonances amongst each other. In paintings, films, and performances, these artists from East Africa, India, North America, and Brazil give form to an experience of history and our humanity. Grounded in distinct cultural and political realities, their works compose a polyphonic landscape that combines social commitment, poetry, and a heightened awareness of the present.

PARIS

CLAIR-OBSCUR
Bourse de Commerce, Paris
From 4 March to 31 August 2026

Drawing on some twenty modern and contemporary artists from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition "Clair-Obscur" explores the legacy of chiaroscuro as it resonates in the present day. The Bourse de Commerce is transformed into a luminous and crepuscular landscape, offering visitors a sensory experience in which the visible meets the invisible that reveals the very materiality of light and the shadow areas from which imagination, memory, and the unconscious emerge.

Curated by: Emma Lavigne

REMEMBER ME
MASTERPIECES OF PHOTOGRAPHY
FROM THE PINAULT COLLECTION
Bourse de Commerce, Paris
From 14 October 2026

In the autumn of 2026, Pinault Collection is hosting a major exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of the invention of photography. Conceived as an innovative, free-spirited journey, "Remember Me" offers a vast overview of the medium throughout the entire Bourse de Commerce, from its very first experiments to its most contemporary expressions. Inspired by the book 100 Masterpieces of Photography. Pinault Collection published in 2024, the exhibition is like a fugue: a free-ranging journey without any chronology that elicits unexpected correspondences and dialogues between genres and eras, thereby offering viewers an open, sensorially driven experience of the history of photography.

Curated by: Matthieu Humery

VENICE

LORNA SIMPSON. THIRD PERSON
Punta della Dogana, Venice
From 29 March to 22 November 2026

Lorna Simpson’s solo exhibition offers, for the first time in Europe and on such a scale, a comprehensive panorama of her work focused on more than a decade of painting practice. Organized in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York —where an initial version curated by Lauren Rosati, Source Notes, was presented in spring 2025— the Venetian iteration offers a renewed selection and brings together around fifty works —paintings, as well as collages, sculptures, ins- tallations, and film— drawn from private collections, international institutions, and from the artist’s own archive. The exhibition will feature new works created specifically for the exhibition at Punta della Dogana.

Curated by: Emma Lavigne

PAULO NAZARETH. ALGEBRA
Punta della Dogana, Venice
From 29 March to 22 November 2026

"Algebra" is a major solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth on the upper floor of Punta della Dogana. The exhibition project stems from the extensive presence of Nazareth’s works in the Pinault Collection and includes a core of previously unseen works, bringing together over twenty years of artistic practice and transforming the space of the former customs house.

Curated by: Fernanda Brenner

MICHAEL ARMITAGE. THE PROMISE OF CHANGE
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
From 29 March 2026 to 10 January 2027

Pinault Collection presents a major exhibition dedicated to Michael Armitage, one of the most original and acclaimed voices in contemporary painting. Shifting between representation and abstraction, documentary narration and dreamlike visions, Armitage’s paintings intertwine personal recollections, references and symbolic imagination, resulting in lyrical tableaux addressing notions of identity, memory, spirituality, and sociopolitical tensions of the contemporary world.

Curated by: Jean-Marie Gallais

AMAR KANWAR. CO-TRAVELLERS
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
From 29 March 2026 to 10 January 2027

This new exhibition by Amar Kanwar will feature two important multi-media installations on the second floor of the Palazzo Grassi. Characterized by his poetic and philosophic approach to personal, social and political situations, Kanwar creates space at the intersection of art, documentation, and activism. His installations offer a unique form of meditation on human nature.

Curated by: Jean-Marie Gallais