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Palazzo Grassi — Punta Della Dogana

  • Exhibition

    Tatiana Trouvé. The Strange Life of Things

    April 6, 2025 — January 4, 2026
    “The Strange Life of Things” surveys the imaginative territory of FrenchItalian artist Tatiana Trouvé’s work.

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    Thomas Schütte. Genealogies

    April 6, 2025 — November 23, 2025
    The exhibition has been conceived in collaboration with the artist and takes us to the heart of his vast repertoire, which resists simplistic interpretation, offering instead a critical view of the world and human nature. 

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    Julie Mehretu. Ensemble

    17 March 2024 — 6 January 2025
    The exhibition brings together a selection of more than fifty works, between painting and printmaking, that the artist produced over the timespan of 25 years, including several of the artist’s recent paintings from 2021-2024.

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    Pierre Huyghe. Liminal

    17 March — 24 November 2024
    Conceived by the artist together with curator Anne Stenne, the exhibition is centred around major new works, combined with those from the last ten years, in particular from the Pinault Collection.

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    Edith Dekyndt. Song to the Siren

    13 — 17 March
    15 — 22 April 2024
    In this film, presented in the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Edith Dekyndt draws the viewer’s attention to our duty to maintain and preserve the memory of those tragic events, in order to avert their recurrence.

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    Chronorama

    12 March 2023 — 7 January 2024
    “CHRONORAMA. Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century” is the first major exhibition of masterpieces recently acquired by the Pinault Collection and from the Condé Nast archives, some of which have never been seen by the public before. 

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    Icônes

    2 April — 26 November 2023
    The exhibition mainly presents emblematic works from the Pinault Collection, and proposes a reflection on the theme of the icon and the status of the image in the contemporary world. 

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    Marlene Dumas. Open-end

    27 March 2022 — 8 January 2023
    Palazzo Grassi presents ‘open-end’, the first comprehensive solo show exposing the work of Marlene Dumas in Italy, as part of the cycle of monographic shows organised by the Pinault Collection dedicated to major contemporary artists.

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    Hypervenezia

    5 September 2021 — 9 January 2022
    The exhibition is specifically dedicated to the city of Venice on the occasion of the 1600th anniversary of its foundation. It presents for the first time to the public the ambitious “Venice Urban Photo Project”, conceived and developed by Mario Peliti.

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    Bruce Nauman. Contrapposto studies

    23 May 2021 — 9 January 2022
    The exhibition focuses on three fundamental aspects of Bruce Nauman's œuvre: the artist studio as a space where creation takes place, the body through performances and the exploration of sound.

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    Henri Cartier-Bresson. Le grand jeu

    22 March 2020 — 10 January 2021
    The exhibition is a unique project based on the Master Collection created in 1973 by Cartier-Bresson at the re- quest of his art collector friends Dominique and John de Menil.

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    Youssef Nabil. Once upon a dream

    22 March 2020 — 10 January 2021
    As part of its cycle of monographic shows dedicated to contemporary artists, Palazzo Grassi unveils the first major survey of Youssef Nabil, multi-faceted Egyptian artist, whose work encompasses photography, painting, video and installation art. 

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    Untitled, 2020

    22 March 2020 — 13 December 2020
    Conceived specifically for the spaces of Punta della Dogana, ‘Untitled, 2020. Three perspectives on the art of the present’ is the fruit of discussion and dialogue between the three curators, who are linked by longstanding personal and professional relationships.

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    Luc Tuymans. La pelle

    24 March 2019 — 6 January 2020
    As part of the cycle of monographic shows and ‘carte blanche’ dedicated to major contemporary artists, launched in 2012 and alternating with thematic exhibitions of the Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi presents Luc Tuymans’ first personal exhibition in Italy.

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    Luogo e segni

    24 March 2019 — 15 December 2019
    ‘Luogo e Segni’, conceived by Mouna Mekouar, independent curator, and Martin Bethenod, Director of Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, is the seventh exhibition to be presented at Punta della Dogana from its opening as an exhibition space of the Pinault Collection.

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    Albert Oehlen. Cows by the water

    8 April 2018 — 6 January 2019
    the exhibition lays out a path dedicated to Albert Oehlen’s production through a selection of approximately 85 works, including some lesser-known ones, created between the 1980s and today. 

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    Dancing with myself

    8 April 2018 — 16 December 2018
    On Sunday 8 April the collective exhibition ‘Dancing with Myself’ opens at Punta della Dogana. Curated by Martin Bethenod and Florian Ebner, it stems from the collaboration between the Pinault Collection and Museum Folkwang in Essen. 

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    Damien Hirst. Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable

    9 April 2017 — 3 December 2017
    The exhibition is displayed across 5,000 square meters of museum space and marks the first time that Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the two Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection, are both dedicated to a single artist.

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    Accrochage

    17 April 2016 — 20 November 2016
    “Accrochage” brings together nearly seventy works that have not been on display since they became part of the Pinault Collection and over two thirds of the artists have never been presented in an exhibition of the collection.

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    Sigmar Polke

    17 April 2016 — 6 November 2016
    The exhibition spans the artist’s entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and underlines the variety of his artistic practice. It brings together nearly ninety works from the Pinault Collection and numerous other public and private collections.

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    Slip of the tongue

    12 April 2015 — 31 December 2015
    Danh Vo has been invited to collaborate with Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection not only as an artist but also as a curator, working with the collection in conjunction with a number of invited artists.

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    Martial Raysse

    12 April 2015 — 30 November 2015
    It is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist outside of France since 1965 and is the perfect opportunity to discover or rediscover France’s hidden master and to explore the dedication and proximity between a collector and an artist.

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    Prima Materia

    30 May 2013 — 15 February 2015
    “Dialogue” is the key word of the exhibition Prima Materia. First of all, the constant dialogue, during the preparation of the show, between Michael Govan and Caroline Bourgeois, entrusted by François Pinault to conceive this exhibition starting from his collection.

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    Irving Penn. Resonance

    13 April 2014 — 31 December 2014
    The exhibition “Irving Penn, Resonance”, curated by Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery, brings together on the second floor of Palazzo Grassi 130 photographs, taken between the end of the 1940s and the mid-1980s. 

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    The Illusion of light

    13 April 2014 — 31 December 2014
    The exhibition “The Illusion of Light” explores the physical, aesthetic, symbolic, philosophical and political stakes of an essential dimension of human experience that has also been a fundamental element of art: light.

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    Rudolf Stingel

    7 April 2013 — 31 December 2013
    François Pinault decided to invite Rudolf Stingel to devise, in absolute freedom, an exhibition involving the totality of the spaces at Palazzo Grassi for the first time.

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    In praise of doubt

    10 April 2011 — 17 March 2013
    The opening of the exhibitions In Praise of Doubt at Punta della Dogana marks the 5 year anniversary of the opening of Palazzo Grassi by François Pinault and the Mayor of Venice in April 2006.

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    Voice of images

    30 August 2012 — 13 January 2013
    François Pinault entrusted the curating of “Voice of Images” to Caroline Bourgeois. It includes thirty works by twenty-seven artists from the François Pinault collection: films, videos, installations, ...

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    Urs Fischer. Madame Fisscher

    15 April 2012 — 15 July 2012
    François Pinault decided on Urs Fischer to inaugurate this new cycle of one-man shows, thus becoming the first living artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at Palazzo Grassi–Punta della Dogana–François Pinault Foundation.

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    The World Belongs to You

    2 June 2011 — 21 February 2012
    By juxtaposing different ways of making art, disciplines and personal backgrounds, the exhibition intends to explore artists’ relationships to history, reality and its own representation.

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    Mapping the Studio

    6 September 2009 — 10 April 2011
    The exhibition includes two hundred works by sixty artists, which fill the spaces of Palazzo Grassi and the newly renovated exhibition space at Punta della Dogana, which has recently reopened following its renovation by Tadao Ando.

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    Italics

    27 September 2008 — 22 March 2009
    This time our journey into contemporary art, which began two years ago at Palazzo Grassi, leads us to Italy. 

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    Rome and the barbarians, the birth of a new world

    26 January 2008 — 20 July 2008
    Following on from the exhibitions that focused on the great civilisations of the past, Rome and the Barbarians takes an original look at the ever-important issue of comparison and contamination.

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    Sequence 1

    5 May 2007 — 11 November 2007
    "Sequence 1" featured a diverse range of work by sixteen artists from the Pinault Collection, as well as new commissions and special projects.

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    Picasso, la joie de vivre, 1945-1948

    11 novembre 2006 — 11 mars 2007
    Through more than 200 loans from major public institutions and private collections, "Picasso, la joie de vivre, 1945-1948" covered a period of intensive creation and artistic experimentation: paintings, drawings, ceramics...

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    Where Are We Going?

    29 April 2006 — 1 October 2006
    The exhibition takes its title from a famous painting by Paul Gauguin, ironically echoed by Damien Hirst for an iconic 2004 sculpture featured in the show: Where are we going? Where do we come from? Is there a reason?.

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