Found in the heart of Paris, the Bourse de Commerce is home to some of the most intriguing works of contemporary art collected. After undergoing a three year restoration and redesign the 18th-century stock exchange building turned gallery opened their doors for the first time last Spring. 

The Bourse de Commerce shows art exclusively from the 1960’s to the present day from the 10,000 piece private collection by François Pinault. His collection represents almost 400 artists in a variety of mediums. At the end of 2021, the gallery welcomed two new exhibitions by Nobuyoshi Araki and Stan Douglas.

Shi-Nikki (Private Diary) for Robert Frank by Nobuyoshi Araki is a series of 101 black-and-white photographs produced in 1993, three years after the death of his wife Yoko Aoki. 

Araki captures the female models in fully frontal poses, explicit and uncompromising, as well as in erotic scenarios. These images are displayed together with photographs of Araki’s new life as a widower: still lifes, the streets and skies of Tokyo, his cat, Chiro. This series gives a nod to the works of Robert Frank (1924 -  2019), a pioneer of American photography, who was given a dedication to the series on the occasion of his exhibition at the Yokohama Museum. Throughout the images, Araki explores his intimate surroundings while also questioning desire and loss.