Until January 4, 2026, Palazzo Grassi presents a landmark solo exhibition dedicated to Franco-Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé (b. 1968, Cosenza), curated by Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood. The “La strana vita delle cose” (The Strange Life of Things) exhibition is expansive project – the artist’s largest exhibition to date and her first major show in Italy. This is a profound exploration of Trouvé’s distinctive artistic universe, developed in close dialogue with the Pinault Collection.
Responding to the carte blanche invitation extended by the Pinault Collection, Trouvé transforms the spaces of Palazzo Grassi into a labyrinth of memory, matter, and imagination. Across all three floors, new sculptures, monumental drawings, and site-specific installations interweave with key works from the past decade, offering visitors an immersive experience that blurs the boundaries between inner and outer worlds.
Trouvé’s art resists linear narrative, instead conjuring a poetic constellation of objects and images that echo through shifting dimensions. Familiar forms recur in altered states—drawings become sculptures, memories morph into physical spaces—forming a dreamlike dialogue between presence and absence, time and space. Her work often evokes a suspended reality, where personal recollections and collective anxieties intersect with speculative visions of the future.
Enriched by loans from major international institutions and private collections, alongside treasures from the Pinault Collection and the artist’s own archive, this exhibition is both a retrospective and an unveiling. It invites visitors to navigate a spatial and emotional terrain shaped by fragile tensions and powerful reveries—an architecture of thought as much as of form, characteristic of Tatiana Trouvé’s singular artistic voice.
Website: www.pinaultcollection.com
Location: Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Schedule: until Jan. 4, 2026
