Venice, Pinault Collection announces 2025 exhibitions: Thomas Schütte and Tatiana Trouvé

Pinault Collection announced today the two exhibitions that will enliven Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi in Venice in 2025, starting in the spring. Punta della Dogana, in particular, will see, from April 6 to November 23, 2025, the solo exhibition of German artist Thomas Schütte (Oldenubrg, 1954), curated by Camille Morineau, conservator and independent curator, and Jean-Marie Gallais, curator at the Pinault Collection, while at Palazzo Grassi, from April 6, 2025 to January 4, 2026, it will be the turn of French-Italian Tatiana Trouvé (Cosenza, 1968), with an exhibition curated by Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood, in collaboration with the artist

Thomas Schütte’s exhibition.

Unclassifiable and protean, Thomas Schütte’s work casts a restless and ironic gaze on the human condition, mixing techniques and genres. Sculptures, architectural models, photographs, drawings and etchings have, since the late 1970s, constituted a truly evolving repertoire that, in the artist’s words, aims to “introduce a distorted question mark into the world.”

The exhibition explores the circulation of motifs in Schütte’s major works from the 1970s to the present. Centered on the Pinault Collection’s exceptional collection (nearly fifty sculptures) and supplemented by loans from the artist and about a hundred works on paper, many of them previously unpublished, the exhibition traces the emergence of forms and their variations in a non-chronological way, confronting them with the German artist’s practice of drawing, watercolor and printmaking.

Caricatured, sometimes mistreated, always moving, the human figure investigated by Schütte, central to the core of works in the Pinault Collection, comes to life through clay, wax, ceramic, glass, steel or bronze, in whole figures or character heads, always in relation to drawing and portraiture in two dimensions. Combining violence and wit, intimacy and theatricality, seriousness and humor, the artist’s singular universe has established him as one of the leading figures in contemporary art.

Thomas Schütte’s exhibition at Punta della Dogana 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 Thomas Schütte’s work in numerous exhibitions including “Post-pop” (Palazzo Grassi, 2006-07), “Mapping the Studio” (Punta della Dogana, 2009-11), “In Praise of Doubt” (Punta della Dogana, 2011-13), “Prima Materia” (Punta della Dogana, 2013-14), “Art Lovers” (Grimaldi Forum, 2014), “Accrochage” (Punta della Dogana, 2016), “Debout !” (Couvent des Jacobins, 2018) and “Ouverture” (Bourse de Commerce, 2021-22).

Tatiana Trouvé’s exhibition.

Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, this monographic exhibition-the largest solo show Tatiana Trouvé has ever presented and her first major exhibition in Italy-is an ambitious and complex response to the carte blanche invitation from the Pinault Collection to leading figures in international contemporary art. The spaces of Palazzo Grassi are the starting point for the creation of new sculptures, a set of large-scale drawings and site-specific installations, presented in dialogue with works from the last decade, which, together, propose different perspectives through the worlds of Tatiana Trouvé. The exhibition is also enriched with important works from the Pinault Collection, international museums and private collections, as well as from the artist’s archive.

The constellation of Tatiana Trouvé’s works occupying the three floors of Palazzo Grassi accompanies the visitor between inner and outer worlds in which dreams, memories and visions converge. Images and objects appear and reappear in different spaces and scenarios, moving from two to three dimensions and vice versa. Advancing and receding between an ante-human past, a turbulent present and a speculative future, Tatiana Trouvé invites visitors to enter a fascinating spatial, temporal and mental labyrinth.

Tatiana Trouvé’s exhibition at Palazzo Grassi is part of the cycle of monographic exhibitions that the Pinault Collection has dedicated 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), “Place and Signs” (Punta della Dogana, 2019), and, most recently, “Ouverture” (Bourse de Commerce, 2021-22).

Venice, Pinault Collection announces 2025 exhibitions: Thomas Schütte and Tatiana Trouvé

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