The Bourse de Commerce in Paris hosts "Minimal," a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation. The show centers on five large-scale natural-material works by 81-year-old US artist Meg Webster, while featuring over 100 works by more than 50 artists to challenge the traditional narrative that 1960s-70s Minimalism was exclusively a white, male, American movement. It includes thematic sections on light, balance, and monochrome, a gallery devoted to Japan's Mono-ha movement, and retrospectives of Agnes Martin and Lygia Pape, drawing largely from the Pinault Collection with international loans.
This exhibition matters because it actively dismantles the canonical, Eurocentric history of Minimalism by foregrounding marginalized voices—women, artists of color, and non-Western practitioners—who engaged with minimal forms and processes. Morgan's curatorial approach reflects her decade-long effort to transform Dia from what she calls a "dead-white-male institution" into a more inclusive platform, making this show a significant statement about institutional change and art-historical revisionism in the contemporary art world.