10 Years of Grand Tour
A tour of the world’s museums without leaving Venice
On the occasion of the tenth edition of Grand Tour, Palazzo Grassi Hack invites visitors to an afternoon of workshops dedicated to the exhibition The Strange Life of Things. The other museums invited for the occasion bring their mediation practices to Venice, offering visitors diverse and engaging ways to explore the exhibited works.
Activities take place from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, with sessions every half hour (3:00, 3:30, 4:00, and 4:30 PM), allowing visitors to experience the exhibition through shared activities and to engage with Italian and international museums and their different approaches to storytelling and cultural mediation:
Opposites and Contrasts – Atrium: Hors-sol
How can the invisible be made visible, or the unexciting made thrilling? Guided by Peter Aerts (SMAK Gent) and Vivian Vasilda Heyms (Vanabbemuseum Eindhoven), participants explore the work Hors-sol through a conversation on the relationship between opposites and contrasts. This mediation activity encourages observation and dialogue, inviting reflection on tensions and connections between opposing elements.
Impossible Rules – 1st Floor: Notes on Sculpture
Guided by Guillaume Clerc (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Federica Pascotto (Palazzo Grassi - Pinault Collection, Venice), and inspired by the automatic writing practices of the Oulipo group, participants explore the first three rooms of the exhibition, observing and describing the works according to random but precise rules.
Notes on Relations – 1st Floor: Navigation Gates
Guided by Martino Margheri (Fondazione Strozzi, Florence) and Francesca Togni (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin), participants reflect on objects connected to loved ones, special places, or meaningful moments. Through readings by authors admired by Tatiana Trouvé, this listening practice encourages sharing personal stories and creating unexpected connections with the sculptures, fostering new relationships between personal belongings and the observed works.
House of Cards – 1st Floor: The Residents
Guided by Yana Klichuck (Manifesta, Palermo) and Sofia Bilotta (MAXXI, Rome), participants observe the works using cards created by Manifesta and Maria Lai. By exchanging and interpreting the cards, the experience becomes participatory, transforming observation into a relational act and making visitors an integral part of the artwork.
Shouting in Public – 2nd Floor: From March to May
Guided by Daniel Neugebauer (HKW, Berlin) and Hidde Van Schie (Bozar, Brussels), participants experiment with collective shouting as a tool to create a temporary community, breaking the usual museum rules. Inspired by the concept of corpoliteracy and the theme of planetary disaster present in the work, the workshop invites participants to give body and voice to contemporary fears, culminating in a shared shout.
Merchant of Dreams – 2nd Floor: Les Dessouvenus
Guided by Cécile Dumoulin (MUCEM, Marseille), participants exchange their dreams for images from the MUCEM collections, including postcards and photographs of Bretons from the 19th and 20th centuries. This collective exercise encourages the reconstruction of memory and reflection on the collective memory of people who have disappeared, in dialogue with Tatiana Trouvé’s Dessouvenus works.
