Born in 1968 in Cosenza, Italy
Lives and works in Paris, France
Tatiana Trouvé was born in 1968 in Cosenza (Calabria, Italy) and grew up in Dakar (Senegal). She studied at Villa Arson, Nice, and then participated in Ateliers ’63, now De Ateliers, in the Netherlands. She teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Trouvé’s artistic approach originated with the creation of the Bureau d’Activités Implicites, a kind of laboratory of time where activities are always to come. From this research, she created drawings, sculptures, and installations that give an experience of disorientation through the composition of worlds where the orders and laws that define our reality are disrupted; where new coexistences of the physical and the psychological, of the vegetal and the mineral, are expressed; where space and time float; and where our perceptive landmarks shift.
Tatiana Trouvé has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, biennials, and triennials, in museums and institutions both in France and abroad. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Centre national d’art contemporain at Villa Arson in Nice in 1997, and her first retrospective, The Longest Echo, was at MAMCO, Geneva, in 2014. In 2022, a major monographic exhibition, Le grand atlas de la disorientation, was held at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Tatiana Trouvé is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize in 2002, the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2007, the ACACIA Prize (Italy) in 2014 and the Rosa Schapire Art Prize (Germany) in 2019. She was named an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2020.
solo shows
2022
Tatiana Trouvé. Le grand atlas de la désorientation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curator Jean-Pierre Criqui
Tatiana Trouvé, Gagosian, Paris, France
2021
Tatiana Trouvé. Bureau of Implicit Activities, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland, curator Françoise Ninghetto
Tatiana Trouvé. From March to May, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
2019
On the Eve of Never Leaving, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
2018
Tatiana Trouvé, Gagosian, Rome, Italy
One Day for Eternity, Saint Agnes Chapel, König, Berlin, Germany
The Great Atlas of Disorientation, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel, curator Hadas Mahor
Le Numerose Irregolarità, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, curator Chiara Parisi
2017
House of Leaves, Perrotin, Hong Kong
2016
From Alexandrinenstrasse to the Unnamed Path, König, Berlin, Germany
The Sparkle of Absence, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China, curator Tang Zehui
2015
Desire Lines, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, NY, USA, curator Nicholas Baume
Studies for Desire Lines, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
2014
I Tempi Doppi, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, curator Stefan Gronert; travelled to Museion, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, curator Letizia Ragaglia; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany, curator Ellen Seifermann
The Longest Echo / L’Écho le plus long, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland, curators Christian Bernard, Christophe Kihm
Tatiana Trouvé: Recent Works, Gagosian, Geneva, Switzerland
Somewhere, 18-12-95, An Unknown, 1981, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany, curator Nina Pohl
2013
I cento titoli in 36 524 giorni, The Hundred Titles In 36, 524 Days, Gagosian, Rome, Italy
2010
Tatiana Trouvé, Gagosian, New York, NY, USA
Il grande ritratto, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, curator Adam Budak
Tatiana Trouvé, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom, curator Margot Heller
2009
A Stay Between Enclosure and Space, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, curator Heike Munder
Bureau of Implicit Activities: Archives and Projects, Kunstverein Hambourg, Hambourg, Germany, curator Florian Waldvogel
2008
4 between 2 and 3, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France, curator Jean-Pierre Bordaz
Dentisy of Time, König, Berlin, Germany
2007
Time Snares, Perrotin, Miami, FL, USA
Double Bind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curator Marc-Olivier Wahler
Tatiana Trouvé, Centre national d’art contemporain Villa Arson, Nice, France, curator Éric Mangion
2005
Djinns, CNEAI, Chatou, France, curator Sylvie Boulanger, Pascal Yonet
Extraits d'une société confidentielle, Frac PACA, Marseille, France, curator Éric Mangion
2004
Juste assez coupable pour être heureuse, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland, curator Christian Bernard
2003
Tatiana Trouvé, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, curator Dorothea Strauss
Aujourd’hui, hier, ou il y a longtemps… Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, curator François Poisay
2002
Polders, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curators Nicolas Bourriaud, Jérome Sans
2000
Tatiana Trouvé, Le Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, France, curator Dominique Abensour
1997
Tatiana Trouvé, Centre national d’art contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nice, France, curator Michel Bourel
group shows
2022
Haunted Realism, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
What a Wonderful World, MAXXI, Rome, Italy, curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi
Ruins and Fragments, Gagosian, Athens, Greece
2021
Inventaire, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Ouverture, Bourse du Commerce - Fondation Pinault, Paris, France, curators Caroline Bourgeois, Martin Béthenod
Womanology. Colección José Ramón Prieto, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Afterness, Orford Ness, Quay Street, Woodbridge, England, curators Art Angel, James Lingwood, Michael Morris
The Voice of Things. Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China, curators Bernard Blistène, Pamela Sticht
Diversity United. Contemporary European Art, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany; traveled to New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020
Invito 2020, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
Io dico Io, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna di Roma, Rome, Italy, curators Cristiana Collu, Paola Ugolini
Glass and Concrete: Manifestations of the Impossible, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany, curators Franziska Brückmann, Friederike Fast, Anne Schloen
Le vent se lève, 10ème exposition de la collection, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2019
You, œuvres de la collection Lafayette Anticipations, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, curator Anne Dressen
Katharina Grosse / Tatiana Trouvé, Gagosian, Basel, Switzerland
Fell the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washingdon DC, USA, curators Anne Reeve and Betsy Johnson
Gigantisme - Art & Industrie, Triennial, Dunkerque, France, curators Keren Detton, Géraldine Gourbe and Grégory Lang,
Magnetic_T, New Media Gallery,Vancouver, Canada, curators Sarah Joyce, Gordon Duggan
Luogo e Segni, Punta della dogana,Venice, Italy, curators Martin Bethenod, Mouna Mekouar
2018
Debout, Francois Pinault Collection, Rennes, France, curator Caroline Bourgeois
KANAL – Centre Pompidou à Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, curator Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov
2017
BIENALSUR, 1st Contemporary Biennal of South America, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A Good Neighbour, The 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, curators by Elmgreen & Dragset
Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Dioramas, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curators Florence Ostende, Laurent Le Bon
Time Will Tell, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico, curators Thomas Boutoux, Paola Santoscoy
High Tension, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China; Time Museum, Guangzhou, China, curator Alfred Pacquement
Primary Sculptures and Speculative Forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia
Avalanche, Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland, curators Neville Wakefield, Olympia Scarry
Sans Réserve, MAC/VAL, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, curator Alexia Fabre
2016
L’esprit du Bauhaus, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, curated by Marie-Sophie Carron de la Carrière, Mathieu Mercier
Prototypology, an Index of Process and mutation, Gagosian, Roma, Italy, curator Aaron Moulton
Museum Revisited – 1996-2016, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
My Abstract World, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany, curator Thomas Olbricht
Labor relations, From the International Contemporary Art Collection of Wrocław Contemporary Art, Wroklaw, Poland
The Lasting, L’Intervallo et la Durata, La Galeria Nazionale, Roma, Italy
2015
Anatomie de l’automate, La Panacée, Montpellier, France, curator Paul Bernard
La vie moderne, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France, curator Ralph Rugoff
Von Grossen und Ganzen, Die Sammlung Haus N, Teil 1, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Germany, Neumünster
Collezionare per un domani: nuove opere a Museion, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Broken Spaces, Kai10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany, curator Ludwig Seyfarth
Drawing Now, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, curator Elsy Lahner
Rolling Club, Le Plateau Région Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France, curators Florence Ostende, Jean-Luc Moulène
Invitation au voyage, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium, curator Alfred Pacquement
Rastros y Vestigios, Indagaciones sobre en Presente, La Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara; Museo Amparo, Puebla; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico, Mexico, curator Tatiana Cuevas
2014
Call me on Sunday, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria, curator Ursula Maria Probst
Fruits de la Passion, Centre Pompidou collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan, curator Jonas Storsve
Permanent collection, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, curator Heike Munder
Fieldwork, Collins Park, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, USA, curator Nicholas Baume
2013
From Triple X To Birdsong (In Search of The Schizophrenic Quotient), Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA, curator Marc-Olivier Wahler
KölnSkulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany, curator Friedrich Meschede
Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell'arte italiana contemporanea, MAMBo, Bologna, Italy, curator Uliana Zanetti
Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA, curators Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields
A Space Called Public / Hoffentlich Öffentlich, Munich, Germany, curators Elmgreen & Dragset
Masters of Chaos, CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain, curator Jean de Loisy
Ruhestörung, Streifzüge Durch Die Welten der Collage (Disturbing the Piece, An Expedition Through the World of Collages), Museum Marta Herford, Herford; Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
2012
Migros Meets Museum, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, curators Letizia Ragaglia, Heike Munder, Judith Welter
Sculptural Matter, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia, curator Charlotte Day
Lost in LA, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA, curator Marc-Olivier Wahler
New Sculpture? Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, curator Maria Brewińska
Circus Wols, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, curator Olaf Metzel
30 Artists/30 Spaces, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany, curator Ellen Seifermann
Poule !, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico, curator Michel Blancsubé
2011
French Window, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, curator Fumio Nanjo
Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, curator Mizuki Takahashi
You, your sun and shadow, Anderson Gallery, Richemond, VA, USA, curator Michael Jones McKean
Frauenzimmer, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany, curator Stefanie Kreuzer
Elogio del dubbio, In Praise of Doubt, Éloge du doute, Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venise, Italy, curator Caroline Bourgeois
Lustwarande’ 11, 4th edition, international sculpture exhibition, Tilburg, Holland, curator Chris Driessen
2010
The New Decor, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom, curator Ralph Rugoff
Aichi Triennale 2010, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, curator Haito Masahiko
There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, 29th São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil, curators Moacir dos Anjos, Agnaldo Farias
2009
Libertad Igualdad Fraternidad, La Jonja, Saragosse, Spain; travelled to Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, curators Bernard Marcadé, Isabel Duriàn
Leichtigkeit und Enthusiasmus, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, curator Annelie Lütgens
Elles, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, curator Camille Morineau
Archipels, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, curator Emma Lavigne
La Notte, La Kunstalle, Mulhouse, France, curator Lorenzo Benedetti
Le travail de rivière, Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, curator Claire Le Restif
2008
The Impossible Prison, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, curator Alex Farquharson
If You Destroy the Image, You’ll Destroy the Thing Itself, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, curators Solveig Øvstebø, Steinar Sekkingstad
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Collection Agustin et Isabel Coppel, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France ; Tea Tenerife espacio de las artes, Tenerife, Spain, curator Basualdo Carlos
50 Moons of Saturn, T2 – Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Turin, Italy, curator Daniel Birnbaum
Principle Hope, Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy, curator Adam Budak
2007
Chalet de Tokyo, Centro Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curator Marc-Olivier Wahler
Think with the Senses - Feel with the mind, 52nd Venice biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy, curator Robert Storr
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, curators Christine Macel, Daniel Birnbaum
2006
Le Printemps de septembre : Broken Lines, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, curators Jean-Marc Bustamante, Pascal Pique, Mirjam Varadinis
Notre Histoire…, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curators Nicolas Bourriaud, Jérôme Sans
Permanent collection, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2005
Configurations/Modèles modèles, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland, curator Christian Bernard
SingulierS - Art Contemporain en France, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China, curator Thierry Raspail
2004
Tour-détours de Babel, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland, curator Christian Bernard
2003
Clandestini/Clandestines, 50th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy, curator Francesco Bonami
2002
Self-In Material Conscience, Fondazione Sandretto, Torino, Italy, curator Éric Mangion
La vie, au fond, se rit du vrai, Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Permanent collection, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2001
Opening, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Squatters, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, curators Joao Fernandes, Miguel Pérez, Vicente Totoldi
Troubler l’écho du temps, Musée d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France, curator Thierry Raspail
2000
Villes intimes, Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France, curator François Poisay
Voilà, le monde dans la tête, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, curator Suzanne Pagé
1999
Hypothèses de collection, Frac PACA, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France, curator Éric Mangion
1998
Les résidentes, Astérides, Marseille, France
Le Temps de l’esprit, Passau Kunstverein, Germany
Transmission, Espace des Arts, Châlons-sur-Saône, France
1995
Shedalle, Zürich, Switzerland
public collections
Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne (MAC VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Frac Limousin, Limoges, France
Frac Provence-Alpes-Côtes d'Azur, Marseille, France
Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
Collection Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
FNAC Fonds national d'art contemporain (CNAP), Paris, France
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
Fond Cantonal d’Art contemporain de Geneva, Switzerland
Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
MUSEION Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano, Italy
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
He Art Museum, Guangdong, China
By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China
CIAC Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Nea Ionia, Greece
FWA Fondation For Women Artists, Antwerp, Belgium
Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France
Collection Pinault - Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France
Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
Fondation d'entreprise Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
awards
2020
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, ministère de la Culture, France
2019
Rosa Shapire Prize
2014
ACACIA Prize
2007
Marcel Duchamp Prize
2005
ISCP, 6 months residency in New York, USA
2001
Paul Ricard Prize
1990
Ateliers 63, 2-years residency in Haarlem, Netherlands
Bibliography
Monographs
2022
Tatiana Trouvé, Le grand atlas de la désorientation
Texts by Jean-Pierre Criqui and Laura Hoptman, Paris, ed. Centre Pompidou
Tatiana Trouvé
Texts by Thierry Davila and Françoise Ninghetto, Geneva, ed. MAMCO Collection
2018
Tatiana Trouvé, Le numerose Irregolarità
Interview of the artist by Katarina Grosse, Text by Chiara Parisi, Milan, ed. Electa
2014
Tatiana Trouvé, I tempi doppi
Texts by Stefan Gronert, Letizia Ragaglia, Barbara Hess
Interviews of the artist by Richard Shusterman, Francesca Pietropaolo, Robert Storr, ed. Snoeck, Cologne
2010
Tatiana Trouvé
Texts by Maria Gough, Heike Münder
Zürich, ed. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Tatiana Trouvé, Il Grande Ritratto
Texts by Peter Pakesch, Adam Budak, Dino Buzzati, Dieter Roelstraete, Pamela Lee, Francesca Pietropaolo, Maria Gough, Graz, ed. Universalmuseum Joanneum, Kunsthaus Graz
2008
Tatiana Trouvé
Texts by Robert Storr, Catherine Millet, Richard Shusterman, Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Tatiana Trouvé
Texts by Élie During, Jean-Pierre Bordaz, Paris, ed. 315 Centre Pompidou
2007
Lapsus
Interview of the artist by Frank Lamy, Vitry-sur-Seine, ed. MAC/VAL
2003
Tatiana Trouvé, Aujourd’hui, hier, ou il y a longtemps…
Texts by Élie During, François Poisay, Maurice Fréchuret, Bordeaux, ed. CapcMusée
2002
Polders
Text by Gianfranco Maraniello, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, ed. Caisse des dépôts et consignations
1997
Tatiana Trouvé
Texts by Charles-Arthur Boyer, Joseph Mouton, Nice, ed. Villa Arson
Artist books
2021
From March to May, New York, Gagosian, 2021
Text by Tatiana Trouvé
2015
Georges Perec, Les choses, Une histoire des années soixante, Paris, Éditions du Solstice, 2015
2005
Djinns, interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chatou, Cneai, 2005