Tadao Ando's concrete rotunda inside the Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, where Fujiko Nakaya installs her 2026 fog sculpture Cloud #07156

Bourse de Commerce installations: Nakaya's fog, 2026

Fujiko Nakaya’s Cloud #07156 is the first work in the Bourse de Commerce installations sequence to delete Tadao Ando’s concrete rotunda instead of standing inside it. The 93-year-old Sapporo-born artist switched on her high-pressure pump nebulization system inside the Pinault Collection’s Parisian rotunda on 4 June 2026; the fog runs through 14 September 2026 as the centrepiece of the Clair-obscur programme at the Bourse de Commerce. Every other rotunda commission since 22 May 2021 — Urs Fischer’s burning wax Sabines, Anri Sala’s nocturnal sound piece, Danh Vo’s Before the Storm, Philippe Parreno’s permanent Medici-column light sequence — has answered Ando’s 29-metre-wide concrete cylinder by occupying it. Nakaya answers it by erasing it. ...

June 11, 2026 · 13 min · 2621 words · FORMA Editorial
Tadao Ando's concrete cylinder beneath Henri Blondel's iron-and-glass dome at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris

Tadao Ando Pinault Collection: Three Conversions, 2006–2021

Tadao Ando spent fifteen years turning three of François Pinault’s historic shells — a Venetian palazzo on the Grand Canal, a seventeenth-century Dorsoduro customs house and an eighteenth-century Parisian wheat exchange — into the same room. The Tadao Ando Pinault Collection lineage runs from April 2006 to May 2021 and resolves, in all three cases, to a single architectural move: a free-standing concrete volume inside preserved masonry, with light arriving only where Ando lets it. Palazzo Grassi was the rehearsal, Punta della Dogana the proof, and the Bourse de Commerce the closing argument. ...

May 26, 2026 · 13 min · 2706 words · FORMA Editorial

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