Artist Spotlight
In her cast and carved sculptures, site-specific installations, and large-scale drawings, Tatiana Trouvé assesses the relationship between memory and material, pitting the ceaseless flow of time against the remarkable endurance of common objects. She invents, even inhabits, environments that straddle studio, street, landscape, and dream.
Launched in 2020, Artist Spotlight is presented once a month as a regular part of the gallery’s programming. Each Artist Spotlight highlights a work by an individual artist—made available exclusively online for forty-eight hours—together with new editorial features and selected archival content.
Artist Spotlight: Tatiana Trouvé features a new sculpture by the artist. For more information, please contact the gallery at collecting@gagosian.com.
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Tatiana Trouvé: Le grand atlas de la désorientation
In this video, Tatiana Trouvé provides an overview of her latest installation, presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The exhibition, whose title translates to The Great Atlas of Disorientation, includes a selection of drawings and sculptures that create fantastical landscapes where reality engages in infinite exchanges with its doubles.
In Conversation
Tatiana Trouvé and Jean-Michel Geneste
Tatiana Trouvé speaks with Jean-Michel Geneste, archaeologist and curator, about the paradoxes of her practice: absence and presence, the ancient and the contemporary, the natural and the human-made.
Tatiana Trouvé: The Residents
Tatiana Trouvé discusses her installation The Residents (2021), commissioned by Artangel for the exhibition Afterness on Orford Ness, a former military testing site in Suffolk, England
Behind the Art
Tatiana Trouvé: In the Studio
Join the artist in her studio as she speaks about her new series of drawings, From March to May. Trouvé describes the genesis of the project and the essential role its creation played in keeping her connected with the outside world during the difficult months of pandemic-related lockdown.
Bourse de Commerce
William Middleton traces the development of the new institution, examining the collaboration between the collector François Pinault and the architect Tadao Ando in revitalizing the historic space. Middleton also speaks with artists Tatiana Trouvé and Albert Oehlen about Pinault’s passion as a collector, and with the Bouroullec brothers, who created design features for the interiors and exteriors of the museum.
Tatiana Trouvé: From March to May
A portfolio of the artist’s drawings made during lockdown. Text by Jesi Khadivi.
Related Exhibitions
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Exhibition
Tatiana Trouvé in
Panorama L’Aquila
September 7–10, 2023
Various locations in L’Aquila, Italy
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Panorama L’Aquila, curated by Cristiana Perrella, brings together works by more than sixty-two international artists presented by different galleries whose focuses range from the fourteenth century to contemporary. The exhibition takes place in twenty venues across L’Aquila—the provincial capital of the Abruzzo region, known for its green national parks and towns located on dramatic cliff faces—including in historical buildings, palaces, courtyards, and public spaces, as well as museums and other institutions. This is the third in a series of Panorama exhibitions organized by ITALICS, a consortium of art galleries active in Italy cofounded by Lorenzo Fiaschi and Pepi Marchetti Franchi that work together, both on- and offline, to highlight Italy’s extraordinary cultural and artistic heritage. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included, exhibited in the Palazzo Rivera.
Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled, 2022, from the series, Les dessouvenus, 2013–, installation view, Palazzo Rivera, L’Aquila, Italy, September 7–10, 2023. Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Alessio Tamborini
Book Signing
Tatiana Trouvé
Le grand atlas de la désorientation
Sunday, July 10, 2022, 4pm
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr
Tatiana Trouvé will be signing copies of her new book, Le grand atlas de la désorientation, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at Centre Pompidou, Paris, through August 22, 2022. The catalogue features 250 drawings by Trouvé from 1990 to the present day and includes texts by Laura Hoptman, executive director of the Drawing Center, New York, and Jean-Pierre Criqui, curator of the Pompidou exhibition. The event is free to attend.
Tatiana Trouvé: Le grand atlas de la désorientation (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2022)
Honor
Tatiana Trouvé
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Tatiana Trouvé was named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2020 for her work as a visual artist. Established in 1957, this order is intended to honor those who have distinguished themselves through their significant contributions to the arts and literature in France and around the world.
Photo: Claire Dorn
Museum Exhibitions
Just Opened
Rewilding
Through August 18, 2024
Kunsthaus Baselland, Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
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Rewilding is the inaugural exhibition of the Kunsthaus Baselland in its new space, a former champagne warehouse. The exhibition’s title refers to the “rebirth” of the venue, and the artists included in the show, many of whom have exhibited with the museum before, have created new works for the opening. Work by Piero Golia and Tatiana Trouvé is included.
Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled, 2022, from the series Les dessouvenus, 2013– © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn
On View
Tatiana Trouvé in
Power Up: Imaginaires techniques et utopies sociales
Through May 12, 2024
Le Grand Café—Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr
This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Technical Imaginaries and Social Utopias, considers energy infrastructures and their state of disrepair within the context of the global ecological crisis. Focusing on a female perspective, Power Up, which includes works by eighteen artists and architects, puts forward a new history of technology and suggests the need for a radical rethink in our approach to the world around us. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.
Installation view, Power Up: Imaginaires techniques et utopies sociales, Le Grand Café—Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France, February 8–May 12, 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Mierle Laderman Ukeles, © Tatiana Trouvé, © Laura Lamiel. Photo: Marc Domage
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Togetherness
For Better or Worse
October 7, 2023–January 21, 2024
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org
Togetherness: For Better or Worse explores the intricate and multifaceted dynamics of personhood and connection in thirty-eight works by thirty-five artists. The exhibition examines humanity at its foundations, considering beauty and pain and the moments they unite. Work by Thomas Houseago, Tatiana Trouvé, and Jonas Wood is included.
Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2022 © Tatiana Trouvé
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Storie di pietra
October 13, 2023–January 14, 2024
Villa Medici–Académie de France à Rome
www.villamedici.it
This exhibition, whose title translates to Stories of Stones, brings together nearly two hundred works, from the oldest terrestrial mineral dating back 4.4 billion years to the latest mineral, Sentimentite, created by contemporary artist Agnieszka Kurant. The exhibition explores the idea that stones have inspired artists from all eras. Work by Damien Hirst, Henry Moore, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, and Tatiana Trouvé is included.
Tatiana Trouvé, Rock, 2007 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Philippe Migeat