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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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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

Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2022 © Tatiana Trouvé

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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

Tatiana Trouvé, Rock, 2007 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Philippe Migeat

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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

Tatiana Trouvé, Les indéfinis, 2018 © Tatiana Trouvé

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What a Wonderful World

May 26, 2022–May 21, 2023
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.maxxi.art

This exhibition brings together major installations by fourteen international artists including key works from the museum’s collection and others commissioned for the occasion. The works on display investigate issues of scientific and technological progress relating to the challenges of the contemporary era. Work by Carsten Höller and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Les indéfinis, 2018 © Tatiana Trouvé

Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled 1, 2008, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Jacques Faujour

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Tatiana Trouvé in
The Memory Palace: Focus on the French Art Scene with the Marcel Duchamp Prize

February 10–May 14, 2023
Dacia-Romania Palace, Bucharest
www.artsafari.ro

The Memory Palace aims to reveal how contemporary artists take hold of the past in order to exorcise its traumas or find inspiration for a more hopeful future. Memory functions as a guiding thread in the work of eight artists and two duos from the French art scene, all of whom participated in the Marcel Duchamp Prize within the past fifteen years. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled 1, 2008, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Jacques Faujour

Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled, 2019, from the series Les dessouvenus, 2013– © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

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Traces

July 30, 2022–April 23, 2023
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
portlandartmuseum.org

Traces presents poetic reflections on memory in contemporary art and features recent acquisitions alongside works borrowed from private collections. The exhibition showcases seven international artists who evocatively capture the traces of events, people, or places as remembrances of real experiences or projections of imagined ones. Work by Theaster Gates and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Untitled, 2019, from the series Les dessouvenus, 2013– © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Tatiana Trouvé, Polder, 2001, installation view, West Bund Museum, Shanghai © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Liang Xiaobo

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The Voice of Things
Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection, Volume II

July 27, 2021–February 5, 2023
West Bund Museum, Shanghai
www.westbund.com

The title of this exhibition is taken from the iconic collection of prose poems published in 1942 by French poet and resistance fighter Francis Ponge (1899–1988). In it, he describes the beauty of banality and opens up a new way of looking at everyday objects and bringing them to life. Organized as part of a five-year partnership with the Centre Pompidou, Paris, this exhibition brings together emblematic artworks from the Centre Pompidou’s collection, ranging from the early twentieth-century avant-garde to contemporary works that question our globalized world. Work by Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Polder, 2001, installation view, West Bund Museum, Shanghai © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Liang Xiaobo

Installation view, Tatiana Trouvé: Le grand atlas de la désorientation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 8–August 22, 2022. Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Thomas Lannes

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Tatiana Trouvé
Le grand atlas de la désorientation

June 8–August 22, 2022
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr

Invited to take over an eight-hundred-square-meter gallery at the Centre Pompidou, Tatiana Trouvé employs a variety of materials to re-create its floor. On this reconfigured surface she presents a group of drawings, some previously unseen and some made expressly for the exhibition, whose title translates to The Great Atlas of Disorientation. A selection of sculptures and constructed elements complete this fantastical landscape where reality engages in infinite exchanges with its doubles.

Installation view, Tatiana Trouvé: Le grand atlas de la désorientation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 8–August 22, 2022. Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2019, installation view, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris © Tatiana Trouvé, ADAGP Paris 2021

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Oeuvres in situ

May 22, 2021–January 17, 2022
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris
www.pinaultcollection.com

This show, whose title translates to In Situ Works, is part of Ouverture, an inaugural series of exhibitions at Bourse de Commerce. The presentation aims to highlight the relationship that artists can have with an exhibition space, as well as their relationship to a museum and its visitors. The works, which include eight sculptures from Tatiana Trouvé’s series The Guardian, are installed outside of the museographic framework in the venue’s thoroughfares and passageways, under the dome, and at the top of the Medici Column, surprising visitors.

Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2019, installation view, Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris © Tatiana Trouvé, ADAGP Paris 2021

Installation view, Au rendez-vous des amis: Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz, Part 2, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, August 8, 2021–January 16, 2022. Artwork, left to right: © Stand Douglas, © Tatiana Trouvé, © Egon Schiele. Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Haydar Koyupinar

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Au rendez-vous des amis
Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz, Part 2

August 6, 2021–January 16, 2022
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
www.pinakothek-der-moderne.de

This exhibition, which includes more than two hundred works, presents works from the Sammlung Goetz in the Pinakothek der Moderne in order to explore the diverse relationships between classical modernism and contemporary art, examining how avant-garde artists paved the way for a more liberal treatment of color, line, and perspective, and outlined groundbreaking ideas for a new social community. Work by Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Installation view, Au rendez-vous des amis: Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz, Part 2, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, August 8, 2021–January 16, 2022. Artwork, left to right: © Stand Douglas, © Tatiana Trouvé, © Egon Schiele. Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Haydar Koyupinar

Tatiana Trouvé, Bureau d’Activités Implicites, Module des Archives (Dessins), 2003 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Annik Wetter

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Tatiana Trouvé
Bureau d’Activités Implicites

October 5, 2021–January 9, 2022
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
www.mamco.ch

At the start of Tatiana Trouvé’s artistic career, after amassing a large number of cover letters, unsuccessful grant applications, and other written material, she began to incorporate these rejections and ephemera from unrealized projects into sculptures, or “modules,” as she calls them. She later brought together the various modules—whose common thread is the notion of time and memory—as the Bureau d’Activités Implicites (1997–), which translates to Bureau of Implicit Activities. On display in this exhibition are two modules containing fragments of letters written but unsent, unfinished projects, and copies of her own drawings that Trouvé painstakingly made.

Tatiana Trouvé, Bureau d’Activités Implicites, Module des Archives (Dessins), 2003 © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Annik Wetter

Tatiana Trouvé, Desire Lines, 2015, installation view, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France © Tatiana Trouvé, ADAGP Paris 2020. Photo: © MAC VAL

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Le vent se lève

March 7, 2020–October 31, 2021
Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
www.macval.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to The Wind Is Rising, explores the relationships between humanity and the planet through paintings, photographs, films, and installations. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Desire Lines, 2015, installation view, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France © Tatiana Trouvé, ADAGP Paris 2020. Photo: © MAC VAL

Tatiana Trouvé, The Residents, 2021, installation view, Orford Ness, Suffolk, England, commissioned and produced by Artangel, presented by Artangel in partnership with the National Trust © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Emile Ebrahim Kelly

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Afterness

July 1–October 30, 2021
Orford Ness, Suffolk, England
www.artangel.org.uk

Afterness is a series of new commissions by artists working across multiple mediums, created in response to the singular environment and hidden history of Orford Ness, a windswept strip of land stretching several miles along the Suffolk coast. Protected by the National Trust as a nature reserve since 1995, the Ness is a decommissioned military testing site known locally as the “island of secrets,” where research into weaponry and covert radio systems was conducted between the First World War and the Cold War. Tatiana Trouvé’s The Residents (2021) consists of several sculptures installed throughout the interior of Lab 1, a derelict structure built in the 1960s for weapons testing, now open to the elements, overgrown with vegetation, and partly underwater.

Tatiana Trouvé, The Residents, 2021, installation view, Orford Ness, Suffolk, England, commissioned and produced by Artangel, presented by Artangel in partnership with the National Trust © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Emile Ebrahim Kelly

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2010, installation view, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin © Rachel Whiteread

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Diversity United
Contemporary European Art

June 9–October 10, 2021
Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin
www.stiftungkunst.de

Presenting work by more than ninety established and emerging artists from thirty-four countries, Diversity United reflects the diversity and vitality of Europe’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition, which will travel to venues in Moscow and Paris, sheds light on subjects such as freedom, democracy, migration, territory, and political and personal identity. Work by Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Tatiana Trouvé, and Rachel Whiteread is included.

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled, 2010, installation view, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin © Rachel Whiteread

Tatiana Trouvé, Les indéfinis, 2017–18 © Tatiana Trouvé

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Io dico Io – I say I

March 1–June 6, 2021
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
lagallerianazionale.com

This exhibition is loosely based on the writings of Italian art critic and feminist activist Carla Lonzi (1931–1982) and insists on the necessity of taking the floor and speaking for oneself in order to assert one’s subjectivity, by creating a single multitude, a multiplicity of “I” that resonates with consonances and dissonances. The show brings together a constellation of visions by Italian female artists of different generations, who, in diverse historical and social contexts, have expressed their own authentic ways of inhabiting the world. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Les indéfinis, 2017–18 © Tatiana Trouvé

Installation view, Tatiana Trouvé: 4 between 3 and 2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 25–September 29, 2008. Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Accrochage 20 ans du prix Marcel Duchamp

October 19, 2020–March 15, 2021
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr

The Prix Marcel Duchamp, which was instituted in 2000 to highlight the creative profusion of the French artistic scene, sets out to distinguish the most representative artists of their generation and promote, on an international level, the diversity of practices currently at work in France. To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2020, the Centre Pompidou is showcasing a selection of works by past winners of the prize as part of a dedicated tour. Work by Tatiana Trouvé, who won the prize in 2007, is included.

Installation view, Tatiana Trouvé: 4 between 3 and 2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, June 25–September 29, 2008. Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Tatiana Trouvé, Refolding, 2013 © Tatiana Trouvé

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Recyclage/Surcyclage

June 20–November 1, 2020
Fondation Villa Datris pour la sculpture contemporaine, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
fondationvilladatris.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Recycling/Upcycling, explores recycling in contemporary sculpture. At a time when sustainable development has become an absolute priority, contemporary artists are tackling the fundamental question of our relationship to objects with particular acuity. The exhibition focuses on works by artists who deploy waste as an artistic material in its own right; objects left behind or rejected by the flow of consumption thus find utility and a new identity—a true social metaphor.Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Refolding, 2013 © Tatiana Trouvé

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Glas und Beton: Manifestationen des Unmöglichen

February 29–June 7, 2020
Marta Herford, Germany
marta-herford.de

This exhibition, whose title translates to Glass and Concrete: Manifestations of the Impossible, explores the path of the titular materials between flowing and setting, testing the limits of what is possible in order to pose new questions about crumbling social concepts. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Rock, 2006 © Tatiana Trouvé

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Tatiana Trouvé in
You: Oeuvres de la collection Lafayette Anticipations

October 11, 2019–February 16, 2020
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
www.mam.paris.fr

You presents a selection of contemporary artworks from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, established by the Galeries Lafayette Group. The exhibition, which centers on sculpture, video, and performance works acquired since 2005, seeks to engage with the concepts of proximity, sharing, and dialogue—the way artworks interact with the public and respond to each other, but are also transformed by mutual contact. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, Rock, 2006 © Tatiana Trouvé

Mary Weatherford, Engine, 2014, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Mary Weatherford

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Feel the Sun in Your Mouth
Recent Acquisitions

August 24, 2019–February 2, 2020
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu

This exhibition brings together artworks acquired by the museum over the past five years with a focus on art that incites sensation and demonstrates a renewed interest in sublime encounters with the world. Spanning a period of extreme technological growth that has led us from the first steps on the moon to the development of the Internet, this exhibition illuminates a return to the poetic, the intuitive, and the cosmic in current artistic practice. Work by Alex Israel, Tatiana Trouvé, and Mary Weatherford is included.

Mary Weatherford, Engine, 2014, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC © Mary Weatherford

Tatiana Trouvé, Desire Lines, 2015, installation view, Frac Grand Large—Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Aurélien Mole

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Gigantisme
Art & Industrie

May 4, 2019–January 5, 2020
Frac Grand Large—Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France
www.fracnpdc.fr

This exhibition features large-scale installations, in situ works, sculptures, paintings, films, and performances that embody encounters between artists, engineers, designers, and architects. Tatiana Trouvé’s Desire Lines, commissioned by Public Art Fund and presented in New York’s Central Park in 2015, is included, as is work by Simon Hantaï.

Tatiana Trouvé, Desire Lines, 2015, installation view, Frac Grand Large—Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque, France © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Aurélien Mole

Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2018, Pinault Collection © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

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Luogo e segni

March 24–December 15, 2019
Punta della Dogana, Venice
www.palazzograssi.it

Luogo e segni, which translates to Place and Signs, takes its title from a painting by Carol Rama that is included in the exhibition. The show brings together more than one hundred works by thirty artists that establish a particular relationship with their respective urban, social, political, historical, and intellectual settings. Work by Rudolf Stingel and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Tatiana Trouvé, The Guardian, 2018, Pinault Collection © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Corinna Tang

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Tatiana Trouvé in
magnetic_T

February 23–May 26, 2019
New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
newmediagallery.ca

Four artists from four countries use magnets, magnetism, and magnetic fields to create profound and fascinating works that reference migrations, attraction, resistance, and power. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Corinna Tang

Tatiana Trouvé, Prepared Space, 2014–17 (detail) © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Untrefmedia

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Tatiana Trouvé
The Great Atlas of Disorientation

June 7–September 29, 2018
Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
www.petachtikvamuseum.com

This exhibition extends over the museum’s two main exhibition halls and includes sculptural works alongside a large site-specific installation. The first hall features a series of sculptural objects that appear as temporary structures, shelters of sorts, cast from used cardboard in bronze, aluminum, and copper. The second hall is devoted to the immersive installation Prepared Space, which extends over the entire space like a large navigation map.

Tatiana Trouvé, Prepared Space, 2014–17 (detail) © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Untrefmedia