Thomas Schütte: Genealogies
April 6, 2025
From Sunday, April 6, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the two museums of the Pinault Collection in Venice, present new solo exhibitions dedicated to artists Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte.
Tatiana Trouvé: The Strange Life of Things
Curated by Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood in close collaboration with the artist
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 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.
The exhibition will also be enriched by a public programme including a live performance by musician and composer Warren Ellis on April 6, a concert by Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld, authors of the composition Denebola, an unpublished piece writte for the exhibition, on April 17, and a public talk with Tatiana Trouvé, Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood on May 16.
Thomas Schütte: Genealogies
Curated by Jean-Marie Gallais and Camille Morineau
Thomas Schütte’s first major exhibition in Italy explores the motifs in the artist’s major works, from the 1970s to the present day. Centred around the exceptional group of works belonging to the Pinault Collection and accompanied by loans from the artist, as well as around a hundred works on paper, many of which have never been displayed before, the exhibition retraces, in a non-chronological way, the emergence of the forms and their variations, and compares them with the German artist’s practice of drawing, watercolour and printmaking. Reconciling violence and ingenuity, intimacy and theatricality, seriousness and humour, the artist’s singular universe has earned him a major role in contemporary art.
The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of cultural events open to the public, including a programme of film screenings curated by film critic Dominique Païni and inspired by the show.
