Museum report·Paris
Two centuries of photography, 700 prints deep: Pinault Collection's 'Remember Me' opens
The Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection has opened 'Remember Me' (7 October 2026 – 18 January 2027), a 700-work, 70-artist survey marking the bicentenary of photography, crowned by Barbara Kruger's largest-ever French installation in the museum's Rotunda.

The Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection opened its autumn blockbuster on 7 October: 'Remember Me', on view until 18 January 2027. Two hundred years after Nicéphore Niépce fixed the world's first permanent photograph in 1826, the exhibition gathers some seven hundred works by more than seventy artists from the Pinault Collection — the largest photography survey the Paris museum has ever staged. Curated by Matthieu Humery, the collection's photography adviser, with Lola Regard, the show is conceived as a fugue: a free-ranging, deliberately non-chronological journey that sets centuries, genres and techniques in dialogue rather than lining them up in academic sequence. Gustave Le Gray appears beside Wolfgang Tillmans; Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler occupy the same constellation. The title comes from Barbara Kruger's 'Untitled (Remember me)', and the American artist occupies the Rotunda with a monumental text-and-image installation — the biggest she has ever created in France. Thematic sections explore the gaze, the sea, the body and the very materiality of the image, while whole rooms are devoted to Irving Penn and Raymond Depardon. The selection draws on a holdings of more than eight thousand prints: photography has been a growing strand of François Pinault's collecting since 2006, and this is the first time the collection has shown its photographic riches at this scale. The Bourse de Commerce, at 2 rue de Viarmes in the 1st arrondissement, is open daily from 11am to 7pm, with late opening until 9pm on Fridays and closure on Tuesdays; full admission is €15.


