Accessible guide and presentation in Italian Sign Language (LIS) of the exhibitions by Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte

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Thu, 10/09/2025 - 10:43

Accessible guide and presentation in Italian Sign Language (LIS) of the exhibitions by Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte

The Accessible Guide and videos in Italian Sign Language accompany visitors on their discovery of the exhibitions by Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte.

On the occasion of ‘Tatiana Trouvé. The Strange Life of Things’ and ‘Thomas Schütte. Genealogies’, the accessible guides offer simple itineraries for visiting the exhibitions at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, with a number of features:

a careful selection of works
content for everyone: the content is designed to explain the exhibition even to those who are not familiar with contemporary art
simple language without technical terms
all content is also available in LIS (Italian Sign Language) and IS (International Sign Language)

The accessible guide has been produced in collaboration with Carlo de Biase, art historian and museum accessibility expert, Davy Mariotti, interpreter and translator in International Sign Language, and Consuelo Frezza for the revision.

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Video

Fri, 07/25/2025 - 13:41

"I imagined that entering Palazzo Grassi one entered a body of water into which all the waters of the world converged." - Tatiana Trouvé

"It was quite a long adventure because it is an exhibition that took me two years to prepare, with 80 per cent of new works made for Palazzo Grassi but also thought in the context of Venice, of water, of the movement of water."

Video

Fri, 07/25/2025 - 13:02

"Every couple of years, the concept of beauty changes and what is truly beautiful is the most forbidden thing there is: drawing a flower or a face." - Thomas Schütte

"I think the great opportunity of art and culture is to change the way we see things, it pushes us to look at them from all points of view."

Article

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 11:54

"Thomas Schütte: Genealogies and expression" by Antonia Boström

The head has been the subject of prolonged engagement for Schütte and weaves itself as a motif throughout his repertoire.

Article

Fri, 06/13/2025 - 11:35

"On the Missing Majority" by Barbara Casavecchia

Trouvé often describes her work as an ecosystem, an organism within which the elements are always interconnected, mirroring and responding to each other.

Article

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 11:37

"'Reaching Silence”: Thomas Schütte and the Fabrication of Artworks' by Jean-Marie Gallais

Thomas Schütte manages to convey a sense of fluidity, even in the most solid materials such as steel and bronze, which he began using in the early 1990s.

Article

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 10:54

"Dead Reckoning" by Neville Wakefield

The garden of idea and forms that Trouvé has created is an invitation to navigate the unseen in ways that are both new and old.

Article

Tue, 05/20/2025 - 15:29

"Thomas Schütte. Genealogie" by Camille Morineau and Jean-Marie Gallais

"The forms of the past give rise to those of the future, the very small becomes the very big"

Article

Tue, 05/20/2025 - 12:50

"Tatiana Trouvé and Italo Calvino: The Inexhaustible Surface of Things" by Bruno Racine

Trouvé’s necklaces bring to mind the city of Clarice, which passes through an indefinitely repeating cycle of collapse and rebirth, forcing the survivors to rummage through the ruins, collecting and patching them together

Interview

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 11:46

"Everything starts with paper" Thomas Schütte

Conversation between Thomas Schütte and Camille Morineau

Interview

Wed, 05/07/2025 - 11:02

"My sculptures, my installations, and my drawings always resonate with echoes" Tatiana Trouvé

Tatiana Trouvé in conversation with Caroline Bourgeois and James Lingwood

Article

Mon, 03/24/2025 - 14:48

"Hors sol" by Tatiana Trouvé

"Hors-sol" is the new site-specific work created by Tatiana Trouvé for Palazzo Grassi.

Article

Mon, 03/24/2025 - 14:02

"Mutter Erde" by Thomas Schütte

"Mutter Erde", a new monumental bronze sculpture by Thomas Schütte, greets visitors in the forecourt of Punta della Dogana.

Accessible guide and presentation in Italian Sign Language (LIS) of the exhibitions by Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte

Accessible guide and presentation in Italian Sign Language (LIS) of the exhibitions by Tatiana Trouvé and Thomas Schütte

Read, watch, listen

"I imagined that entering Palazzo Grassi one entered a body of water into which all the waters of the world converged." - Tatiana Trouvé

"Every couple of years, the concept of beauty changes and what is truly beautiful is the most forbidden thing there is: drawing a flower or a face." - Thomas Schütte

"Thomas Schütte: Genealogies and expression" by Antonia Boström

"On the Missing Majority" by Barbara Casavecchia

"'Reaching Silence”: Thomas Schütte and the Fabrication of Artworks' by Jean-Marie Gallais

"Dead Reckoning" by Neville Wakefield

"Thomas Schütte. Genealogie" by Camille Morineau and Jean-Marie Gallais

"Tatiana Trouvé and Italo Calvino: The Inexhaustible Surface of Things" by Bruno Racine

"Everything starts with paper" Thomas Schütte

"My sculptures, my installations, and my drawings always resonate with echoes" Tatiana Trouvé

"Hors sol" by Tatiana Trouvé

"Mutter Erde" by Thomas Schütte

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