Tatiana Trouvé. The strange lives of things

Palazzo Grassi
6 April 2025 - 4 January 2026

Pinault Collection dedicates a major exhibition project to French-Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé (b. 1968, Cosenza, Italy), at the Palazzo Grassi, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, senior curator of Pinault Collection, and James Lingwood, independent curator and former co-director of Artangel.

Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, this solo exhibition – Tatiana Trouvé’s largest exhibition to date and her first major exhibition in Italy – marks an ambitious and complex response to the carte blanche invitation that the Pinault Collection offers to exceptional living artists. The spaces at the Palazzo Grassi are the starting point for the creation of new sculptures, large-scale drawings, and site-specific installations that are presented in dialogue with bodies of work from the past decade, together offering a number of pathways through Tatiana Trouvé’s worlds. The exhibition also includes important works from the Pinault Collection, international museums, and private collections, as well as the artist’s own archive.

The constellation of Tatiana Trouvé’s work over the three floors of the Palazzo Grassi moves the viewer between inner and outer worlds in which dreams, memories and visions converge. Images and objects appear and reappear in different spaces and scenarios, flowing from two to three dimensions and vice versa. Moving back and forth between a pre-human past, a troubled present and a speculative future, Tatiana Trouvé invites the visitors to enter a fascinating spatial, mental and temporal labyrinth. 

Tatiana Trouvé's exhibition at Palazzo Grassi is part of the cycle of monographic exhibitions that the Pinault Collection has been devoting to major contemporary artists since 2012, alongside thematic exhibitions. The Pinault Collection has presented Tatiana Trouvé's work in numerous exhibitions including "In Praise of Doubt" (Punta della Dogana, 2011-13), "Debout!" (Couvent des Jacobins, 2018), "Luogo e Segni" (Punta della Dogana, 2019), and, most recently, "Ouverture" (Bourse de Commerce, 2021-22).

Curated by Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood, in collaboration with the artist